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1. This 1987 movie, directed by Tom Mankiewicz, starred Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan and Tom Hanks and is based on a TV series (1967-1970) of the same name, starring Jack Webb. The movie tells the story of a straight-laced Detective Sgt. who just wants, to get the facts. What movie is this?
2. Directed by Penny Marshall, this 1988 movie stars Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard and Tom Hanks. It tells the story of a little boy who makes a wish at a magic fortune-telling machine. What is the name of this movie?
3. This 1992 movie is about the first female professional baseball league. It is directed by Penny Marshall and stars, among others, Geena Davis, Madonna, Bill Pullman and Tom Hanks. What movie is this?
4. This 1993 drama was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred, in addition to Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, and Roberta Maxwell. It tells the story of a gay lawyer with AIDS who is fired by his firm and of the only lawyer willing to take his wrongful dismissal case. What movie is this?
5. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this 1998 war movie has a stellar cast, some of whom are Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Vin Diesel, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti and Tom Hanks. The movie tells the story of a group of soldiers who have to go behind enemy lines, after the Normandy Landings, to find a paratrooper whose three brothers were killed, two in that landing and one earlier in New Guinea. What is the name of this movie?
6. This 1999 Tom Hanks movie is based on a book of the same name written by Stephen King. It is told in flash-back form, when an elderly man in a nursing home tells a friend a story of when he was a corrections officer on death row. What Tom Hanks movie is this?
7. Starring Helen Hunt and Tom Hanks, this 2000 movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis, tells the story of one man's fight for survival on a deserted island after the plane in which he was travelling crashes into the ocean. What is the name of this movie?
8. This 2002 drama, directed by Sam Mendes, tells the story of a son witnessing his hit-man father at work and the father trying to save the life of his son. What is the name of this movie?
9. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this 2004 movie tells the story of a man arriving in the US from an Eastern European country and being stranded at an airport in New York City, because of revolution breaking out in his country. This makes him a man without a country. What is the name of this movie?
10. This 2006 thriller, directed by Ron Howard, tells the story of a professor trying to solve a religious mystery, the truth of which has been protected for over two thousand years by a secret society. What movie is this?
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