That Thing You Do (1997)

Kennedy is dead, drainpipes are haute couture and a quartet of loveable Liverpudlians bestride the planet. It's the summer of '64, and four of smalltown USA's young warblers ride the wake of Beatlemania, the shock success of one of their few original numbers (That Thing You Do!) catapulting them from anonymity to Big Time and the top of the Billboard charts. Can the band take the pace? Will rock 'n' roll add to its mumbling, powder-nosed victims? And do we care?

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