Great time with first time director Tom Hanks!!!great for families!!~~

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 1999)

This movie is about a group of young men and their song"That Thing You Do!". The movie takes place in the midwest. The band plays the song at band contest. They win that contest.Eventually after doing other gigs for other people they are discovered by a Mr.White(Tom Hanks). From here on in, the movie shows them on promotional tours of the song. The band decides to the call the band"the Wonders". Of course they encounter many problems from both within the band, and the fans. This movie features many of today hottest stars in a great movie.Some of them are Tom Everett Scott(One True Thing),Steve Zahn(Out of Sight,Forces of Nature), Charilze Thereon(Mighty Joe Young) and Lili Taylor(Armeggedon). This movie is a nice clean movie that shows us want goes on when a band is hot and the problems that they face!!The sound track is almost a trip back to the 1950's.This movie is awesome movie even if you cannot stand the setting or the stars!!Both Hanks and the cast should of been praised for this movie!!Fox did a great job with this movie!!Kudos to everyone involved!!This movie should be in every movie fans collection!!!This movie is great for families,there is no swearing ,nudity ,violence etc..!!