Tom Hanks has become such a universal actor that you just can expect him to play any role and know that you’ll be entertained - even if one of those roles calls for him to pop a giant cyst growing on his spine. Blood and vomit aside, Tom Hanks shines in A Hologram for the King, a film directed by Tom Tykwer, who also directed Hanks in Cloud Atlas. The film, also starring Sarita Choudhury and Alexander Black, follows Alan Clay (Hanks) as he travels to Saudi Arabia to sell the king hologram technology.
The film remarkably combines excellent visuals with a depressingly lonely story of Alan, almost akin to Lost in Translation. What is so remarkable about the film, however, is that it has no agenda in trying to compare and contrast Saudi Arabia from Alan’s American culture; but rather, we see the world through Alan’s...
The film remarkably combines excellent visuals with a depressingly lonely story of Alan, almost akin to Lost in Translation. What is so remarkable about the film, however, is that it has no agenda in trying to compare and contrast Saudi Arabia from Alan’s American culture; but rather, we see the world through Alan’s...
- 4/28/2016
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
It's all starting to come together for Tom Hanks in this exclusive clip from his upcoming film A Hologram for the King. Based on the Dave Eggers novel of the same name, A Hologram for the King follows Alan Clay (Hanks), a depressed and recently divorced American businessman, as he travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a holographic teleconferencing system to the country's king. In the clip, Alan and his team are prepping for their presentation after experiencing a slew of delays. Hanks' character stands off to the side nervously watching as they test the machine's "movement ratio" and "projection stability" one last time.
- 4/22/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- PEOPLE.com
It's all starting to come together for Tom Hanks in this exclusive clip from his upcoming film A Hologram for the King. Based on the Dave Eggers novel of the same name, A Hologram for the King follows Alan Clay (Hanks), a depressed and recently divorced American businessman, as he travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a holographic teleconferencing system to the country's king. In the clip, Alan and his team are prepping for their presentation after experiencing a slew of delays. Hanks' character stands off to the side nervously watching as they test the machine's "movement ratio" and "projection stability" one last time.
- 4/22/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- PEOPLE.com
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