MRQE Ranks: Tom Hanks' Best to Worst Movies

1

Toy Story (1995)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Director: John Lasseter

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assur... [MORE]

2

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles

Director: Lee Unkrich

Synopsis: Pixar returns to their first success with Toy Story 3. The movie begins with Andy leaving for college and donating his beloved toys -- including Wo... [MORE]

3

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Director: Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich

Writer: Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton

Synopsis: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story.... [MORE]

4

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologu... [MORE]

5

Apollo 13 (1995)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris

Director: Ron Howard

Synopsis: "Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis in 1970, events recr... [MORE]

6

Big (1988)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Jared Rushton, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, David Moscow

Director: Penny Marshall

Synopsis: More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier... [MORE]

7

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steve... [MORE]

8

The Green Mile (1999)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell

Director: Frank Darabont

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a pris... [MORE]

9

Forrest Gump (1994)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intellige... [MORE]

10

Road to Perdition (2002)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Stanley Tucci

Director: Sam Mendes

Synopsis: The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter ... [MORE]

11

Cast Away (2000)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuc... [MORE]

12

Philadelphia (1993)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Jason Robards Jr.

Director: Jonathan Demme

13

A League of Their Own (1992)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell

Director: Penny Marshall

Synopsis: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and ... [MORE]

14

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty, Julia Roberts

Director: Mike Nichols

Synopsis: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the... [MORE]

15

That Thing You Do! (1996)

Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry

Director: Tom Hanks

Synopsis: Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960's about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson ... [MORE]

16

The Polar Express (2004)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children's author Chris Van Allsburg's modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves... [MORE]

17

The Great Buck Howard (2008)

Cast: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Griffin Dunne

Director: Sean McGinly

Synopsis: A young man on his way up hitches his wagon to a middle-aged star on his way down in a comedy from writer and director Sean McGinly. Troy Gable (Co... [MORE]

18

The Ladykillers (2004)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Synopsis: One of the best-loved films from the idiosyncratic British film studio Ealing Pictures gets an update from the equally idiosyncratic filmmaking tea... [MORE]

19

Splash (1984)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman

Director: Ron Howard

Synopsis: "I'm in love with a mermaid!" read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the delightful Darryl Hannah in the l... [MORE]

20

You've Got Mail (1998)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton

Director: Nora Ephron

Writer: Miklos Laszlo

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Me... [MORE]

21

The Terminal (2004)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Andrew Niccol, Sacha Gervasi

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spie... [MORE]

22

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rob Reiner

Director: Nora Ephron

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember... [MORE]

23

The 'burbs (1989)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Director: Joe Dante

Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Ray and Carol Peterson (Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher). Together with their perfect son, Ray an... [MORE]

24

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's ... [MORE]

25

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow

Director: Ron Howard

Synopsis: Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in thi... [MORE]

26

Larry Crowne (2011)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cedric the Entertainer, Wilmer Valderrama

Director: Tom Hanks

Synopsis: An amiable Navy veteran loses his comfortable job at a big-box store, enrolls in community college, and seeks to reinvent himself while falling for... [MORE]

27

Volunteers (1985)

Cast: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Gedde Watanabe

Director: Nicholas Meyer

Synopsis: Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period ... [MORE]

28

Turner & Hooch (1989)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Scott Paulin

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Synopsis: One by-product of two consecutive Oscar wins is that Tom Hanks no longer has to appear in such potboilers as Turner and Hooch. Hanks plays Turner, ... [MORE]

29

Dragnet (1987)

Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Director: Tom Mankiewicz

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also ... [MORE]

30

The Money Pit (1986)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco

Director: Richard Benjamin

Writer: David Giler