The 22 Tom Hanks Movies in 2010s You Can Watch
Tom Hanks began his acting career during high school for participating in drama shootings. Hanks first played a role in the movie "Blood Red Splashed White Yarn" in 1979. In 1984, he began to become popular with his excellent performance in "Mermaid". In 1988, Tom starred in "Flying to the Future" and won the Oscar nomination for the best actor.
In 1993 and 1994, Tom Hanks also starred in "Philadelphia Story" and "Forrest Gump", and won the best actor Oscar twice in a row, making himself become more popular around the world. Not letting fans down, this year in 2019, he also wins the 77th Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement. In this blog, it's our great honor to introduce the fantastic movies that Tom Hanks has played in 2010s. You can go through the list and find one you like for watching.
1. Toy Story 3 (2010)
Movie released date: June 12, 2010
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Woody
Brief introduction: Eleven years after the last adventure, Andy turns into a 17-year-old sunshine boy and is growing up happily as well as healthly. This summer, Andy is about to start his college life. However, he is going to face the troubles that he is misunderstood by the toys and couldn't help to run away angrily, preferring to be donated to Sunnyside Daycare. Unexpectedly, Andy falls into a conspiracy.
2. Hawaiian Vacation (2011)
Movie released date: June 24, 2011
Runtime: 5 minutes, 53 seconds
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Woody
Brief introduction: Bonnie, the new owner of the toys, is going to Hawaii for a holiday with her parents. Ken and Barbie are so happy that this is their first tropical vacation! However, in bad luck, they are accidentally left behind. So Woody, Buss and other toys decides to build a Hawaii in Bonnie's room to satisfy their pity for failing to join the vacation.
3. Larry Crowne (2011)
Movie released date: June 27, 2011
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Larry Crowne
Brief introduction: Larry Crowne is a hard-working and kind-hearted salesman. But after the layoffs storm hit, Larry Crowne is unfortunately expelled from the hypermarket where he has worked for more than 20 years. For not getting his life to be worse and worse, the unemployed Larry Crow has to change his mind as well as attitude and tries his best to get back on the job for starting a new life.
4. Small Fry (2011)
Movie released date: November 23, 2011
Runtime: 7 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Woody
Brief introduction: McDonald's Happy Meal always delivers mini-toys. The "Buzz Lightyear" McDonald's mini version kidnaps Buzz and wants to replace it. Of course, the cowboy Woody recognizes it at a glance. So what will happen to them? Can Buzz gets through the troubles and gets his master's favor back?
5. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Movie released date: December 25, 2011
Runtime: 129 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Oskar Schell
Brief introduction: The film tells the story of a little boy's growth after 9/11. It is a film reflecting the life of New York people after the happen of 9/11. The movie combs the persistence and tenacity of people survive after 9/11 from the perspective of a little boy. You can learn more than you can only see from the history book.
6. Cloud Atlas (2012)
Movie released date: September 8, 2012
Runtime: 172 minutes
Country: Germany / United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Dr Henry Goose
Brief introduction: The film, adapted from David Mitchell's novel of the same name, consists of six stories that seem independent but have some mysterious connection with each other. The six heroes may be the embodiment of the same soul, but they are printed with different birthmarks. Just watch the movies and digs out more details now!
7. Partysaurus Rex (2012)
Movie released date: September 14, 2012
Runtime: 7 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Woody
Brief introduction: After saying goodbye to the owner, Woody, Buss Lightyear, and their good friends, come to their new little owner Bonnie's home alone to continue their happy life. But the dumb dinosaur Rex always pops up and screws everything up. Mr. Egghead is so angry that he even calls it "Partysaurus Rex". You will see the conflicts between the toys and their ways to solve them. To some extent, the movie teaches us about the friendship.
8. Parkland (2013)
Movie released date: September 1, 2013
Runtime: 93 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: None (Producer)
Brief introduction: The film is based on the assassination of President Kennedy at the PARKLAND Hospital in Dallas City on November 22, 1963. After witnessing a group of shock and touching events, it derives the complicated case analysis behind the whole incident.
9. Captain Phillips (2013)
Movie released date: September 27, 2013
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Captain Richard Phillips
Brief introduction: Captain Phillips is adapted from the literary work named A Captain's Duty. It tells the story of a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the area of Indian Ocean. The captain stepped forward and took himself hostage in exchange for the safety of the crew. The movie will be nervous and exciting, which is suitable for the adventure movie lovers to watch.
10. Saving Mr.Banks (2013)
Movie released date: October 20, 2013
Runtime: 125 minutes
Country: Australia/United Kingdom/United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Walt Disney
Brief introduction: When Mr. Walt Disney promised his daughter to bring their beloved P.L. Traverse's Mary Poppins to the screen, it took him about 20 years to fulfill that promise. In the process of seeking the right to adapt, Mr. Disney is confronted with a tough old lady, the original author, who firmly disagrees with Hollywood to adapt her wonderful stories and legends.
11. Bridge of Spies (2015)
Movie released date: October 4, 2015
Runtime: 141 minutes
Country: United States/Germany
The role Tom Hanks played: James B. Donovan
Brief introduction: The film is adapted from the real story happens on James Donovan, an American lawyer. The movie focuses on the event that American reconnaissance planes being shot down by Soviet troops in 1960. After the occurrence of the case, Donovan's lawyer has to get involved in the center of the cold war storm in order to rescue the survived pilots.
12. Ithaca (2015)
Movie released date: October 23, 2015
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Matthew Macauley
Brief introduction: Homer Macauley, a 14-year-old bicycle telegraph messenger living in the California town of Ithaca, was left to take care of his family after his brother went to Europe for joining the army. In the spring and summer of 1942, the messages of love, pain, death, and hope is are carried to the town's inhabitants. Watch this touching and inspired movie now, and you will know the truth that peace is always come with great difficulty.
13.A Hologram for the King
Movie released date: April 20, 2016
Runtime: 97 minutes
Country: France
The role Tom Hanks played: Alan Clay
Brief introduction: Allen was in debt, but his daughter had to pay for studying in college, so to fulfill his responsibility as a father, Allen had to travel to Saudi Arabia to complete a computer business. To live in a foreign country, Allen felt much inconvenient and could only wait day after day for the deal to end.
14.Sully
Movie released date: September 2, 2016
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
Brief introduction: On January 15, 2009, Sully served as the captain of American Airlines Flight in 1549. During one flight, two minutes after taking off, the plane was attacked by birds and both engines were off. Sully decided to make a forced landing on the Hudson River. He successfully save all 155 people on the plane. But later investigations revealed that he had made a wrong choice, and the investigation believes that actually, Sully can choose to return to La Guardia Airport.
15.Inferno
Movie released date: October 8, 2016
Runtime: 121 minutes[
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Dr. Robert Langdon
Brief introduction: When Robert Langdon, a professor of semiotics, woke up in a hospital in Italy, he found that his body went wrong and he lost his memory. At the same time, he was tracked by many groups of people. The female doctor, Sienna Brooks, helped him escape from the hospital and retrieve his memory. In this process, he found a conspiracy hidden in the works of dantin, Michelangelo and other popular ancient artists.
16.California Typewriter
Movie released date: September 2, 2016
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Martin Howard
Brief introduction: California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters tightly. Since 1949, California Typewriter was founded. Since then, people gets much reliable to the typewriter as a tool and muse.
17.The Circle
Movie released date: April 26, 2017
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Bailey
Brief introduction: Mae hardly gets a chance to work for in the world's most famous and powerful technology company. The company connects all personal information of users with their operating systems, which aims to prompt maintaining the privacy, ethics, and personal freedom. As Mae joins an experiment, she can only find that every decision she makes with has a great effect on the lives and futures of her friends, family, and even the whole mankind.
18.Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Movie released date: September 8, 2017
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: /
Brief introduction: Mark Fett is a former deputy director of the FBI. During the Watergate incident, the biggest political scandal in the 20th century in the United States, Mark disclosed to reporters in the Washington Post about the online newspaper, which was unfavorable to President Nixon, and thus led to Nixon's downfall. At that time, he didn't reveal his identity, but took the title of a popular pornographic film as his code name, which is "deep throat".
19.The Post
Movie released date: December 14, 2017
Runtime: 116 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Ben Bradlee
Brief introduction: In 1971, a Defense Department official exposed the secret documents of the US government involved in the Vietnam War through the New York Times, Washington Post and other media. Before the documents were released, the US Defense Department tried to block the exposure of the documents. However, they failed. So what's the influence brought by the exposure?
20.Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Movie released date: July 16, 2018
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
The role Tom Hanks played: /
Brief introduction: Sophie, who was pregnant, kept questioning whether she could raise her children alone until she learned about Donna's experience of raising herself to adulthood alone, which became a great encouragement to her.
21.Toy Story 4
Movie released date: June 11, 2019
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Woody
Brief introduction: Woody knows that his mission in the world is to take care of his master, Andy or Bonnie. When Bonnie brings the fork home, which doesn't want to be a toy, Woody takes the responsibility of teaching the fork to accept her new identity. However, when Bonnie takes all her toys to her RV on her family trip, Woody and her friends will embark on a new adventure together to see how vast the world outside the room is, and even meet their old friend shepherdess....
22.A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Movie released date: September 7, 2019
Runtime: 107 minutes
Country: United States
The role Tom Hanks played: Fred Rogers
Brief introduction: Lloyd, a journalist who wants to expose the dark and ugly society, and reveal his society responsibility, was dissatisfied with his boss's call to stop his interview. His boss even gives him a new task - to interview Mr. Rogers as a new issue of hero planning. Rogers is a famous TV host. He sets a model in both TV programs and life, which makes a deep influence on Lloyd.
Tom Hanks is a very excellent actor, and his performance in the movies are really charming, attractive, and well-performed. If you get any one you like, do not hesitate to watch it now!
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