That Thing You Do!

That Thing You Do!

The Fab Four without the Mop Tops

1996108 min6.9 / 10

A warm, energetic 1960s period piece about a small-town band's meteoric rise and the personal fractures that come with sudden fame, told with affection and playful humor.

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.

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