Classic Dragnet is not something I’ve ever spent any time with.
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Dragnet (1987)
Series: Tom Hanks
Reviewing every movie in the star’s long, legendary career.
Nothing in Common is a head-spinningly uneven film. It pairs some legitimately great performances and compelling ideas with a total dud of a script. What a waste.
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Volunteers (1985)
Back before Hollywood had properly figured out the Tom Hanks everyman persona, Volunteers provided a goofy little lark where Hanks plays a totally different type of protagonist.
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Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Of all the moral panics from the last half century, Dungeons and Dragons is one of the most inexplicable to me.
It’s actually kind of remarkable how little works in The Man with One Red Shoe.
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Splash (1984)
Whether Splash earns a thumbs up as opposed to a thumbs sideways depends entirely on whether you, personally, would welcome a nude 24-year-old Daryl Hannah running up to you and kissing you.
There very well could be another movie that’s a better time capsule of the coked out party scene of the early ’80s than Bachelor Party… but I certainly haven’t seen it.
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The Money Pit (1983)
There’s a 20-minute period towards the middle of the film where The Money Pit lives up to its slapstick potential, and it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in eons.
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Punchline (1988)
Buried early in Tom Hanks’ filmography is a a light drama about comedians with broken personal lives.
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Turner & Hooch (1989)
Sometimes it’s a relief to watch a movie that’s exactly what it says on the tin.