From Tom Hanks's Lips Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Green Mile

"The Green Mile" is a Stephen King story adapted for the screen by Frank Darabont, who also adapted another Stephen King story - "The Shawshank Redemption". Paul Edgecomb, played by Tom Hanks, is the head guard on a death row unit called "the green mile" by employees.

A man named John Coffey comes into the green mile, sentenced to death. After coming to know John Coffey, Paul is very conflicted when the time comes to actually carry out the sentence. As the sentence is about to be carried out, Paul utters this line.

Answer: You've Got Mail

"You've Got Mail" is the third movie pairing Meg Ryan with Tom Hanks in a romantic comedy. After a lengthy e-mail flirtation and eventual friendship, Kathleen Kelly is about to meet her e-mail buddy, the mysterious NY152. Joe Fox, played by Tom Hanks, is the owner of a rival bookstore that comes into the neighborhood selling books for less. Joe gets to know Kathleen and although their relationship begins on rocky footing, they eventually become friends.

He is NY152 and he knows that she is the person he's been writing, but she doesn't know that Joe is the one she's been writing.

As she is on her way to meet NY152, Joe tries to tell her how things could have been if he hadn't destroyed her business. He tells her he would have said something like this.

Answer: Joe Vs. The Volcano

Joe, played by Tom Hanks, has a highly unsatisfactory life. He hates his job, he's meek, and he's lonely. The doctor tells Joe he has a "brain cloud". He will show no symptoms and feel perfectly fine until he drops dead.

Answer: Saving Private Ryan

Private Ryan is the last living son in a family that has lost three sons in WWII. Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, whose job it is to lead a platoon behind enemy lines and extract Private Ryan so he can be sent home. The mission costs lives, and Captain Miller is hopeful that Private Ryan's life proves to be worth the cost of saving it.

After losing men in the effort, Captain Miller muses on the ways Private Ryan's life might prove to have been worth it.

Answer: Turner and Hooch

In "Turner and Hooch" Tom Hanks pairs up with a big ugly drooling dog. He plays a cop, Scott Turner, who decides that the dog, Hooch, is witness to the murder of his owner. To protect the "witness", Turner brings Hooch home with him. Unfortunately for Turner, Hooch doesn't like sleeping outside and voices his displeasure loudly and repeatedly throughout the night.

In this hilarious scene, Turner comes outside to yell at the dog.

Answer: The Green Mile

Another quote from "The Green Mile". Here, Paul is talking about Percy, a guard who taunts the prisoners and tattles on fellow guards. Paul is forced to keep Percy on, however, because Percy has friends in high places.

Answer: Punchline

Hanks plays Steven Gold, a standup comedian who has dropped out of medical school and is trying desperately to make it as a comedian. He is on his last legs when he hears that a network scout is coming to see him perform. After the performance, he is told that it will take some time to get him a decision on whether the network will back him.

He is explaining that he feels his time has run out.

Answer: You've Got Mail

Joe Fox is flirting online with Kathleen Kelly. He is describing how autumn in New York makes him feel. It reminds him of newly sharpened pencils.

Answer: Forrest Gump

Years after Jenny escaped the abuse at the hands of her father, she and Forrest come back to the house in which she grew up. Jenny is overcome with emotion, and begins picking up rocks and heaving them at the house.

Answer: Sleepless In Seattle

After young Jonah calls the radio psychiatrist Dr. Marsha Fieldstone and tells her his dad is lonely, Dr. Marsha asks to speak to the dad. Widower Sam Baldwin (Hanks) has no interest in airing his pain, particularly on the radio. Jonah says "Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor!".

Answer: Apollo 13

When the space craft malfunctions, commander Jim Lovell has plenty on his mind. Astronaut Swigert is worrying about re-entry, while Jim is worrying about surviving the next few minutes.

Answer: Forrest Gump

Forrest (Tom Hanks) is talking about Lieutenant Dan's destiny. But when the Lieutenant is badly injured in battle, Forrest manages to save him. The injury causes Lieutenant Dan to lose both legs. He becomes angry and bitter because he feels he was robbed of his destiny, to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and die in the war.

Answer: A League of Their Own

Jimmy's star catcher, Dottie, is quitting the team. Her husband has returned form the war and she's going home with him to settle down and raise a family. She's walking away from baseball because she says that it just got too hard.

Answer: The 'Burbs

With plenty of prodding from his neighbors, Ray Peterson (Hanks) becomes convinced that the new family on the block are cannibals. Their attempts to find evidence of this become more and more outlandish, until they finally blow up the house! Peterson realizes he's behaved foolishly and climbs into the ambulance refusing to talk to his cohorts.

Answer: The Ladykillers

Over-educated criminal mastermind GH Dorr is holding a meeting with his gang at the Waffle Hut. There, he is told of several problems with the plan to rob the gambling ship. Waffles and thought, he believes, will produce the answer to all problems.