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EW Home // Movies // Tom Hanks: 25 Most Memorable Roles

Tom Hanks: 25 Most Memorable Roles

See the Oscar winner go from Bosom Buddy to Forrest Gump to Charlie Wilson

By Adrienne Day | Dec 26, 2007
Actor | Authors | Directors | Producers | RolesClass | Media Products | Movies | Charlie Wilson's War | Individual | Julia Roberts | Tom Hanks
Image credit: Francois Duhamel

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Charlie Wilson

Hanks plays the real-life congressman who, in the '80s, conspired with a CIA agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a right-wing Houston socialite (Julia Roberts) to support the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. EW's Owen Gleiberman says, ''Hanks, who has been repressing the sleaze he showed in early roles for too long, bites into Charlie's buttery corruption, and [Mike] Nichols and [Aaron] Sorkin turn the wonkish jargon of politics into light comedy by staying absolutely true to it.''

EW MOVIE GRADE B+ (Read the full review here)

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