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1. This Tom plays Peter Malloy, an openly gay television personality who helps teacher Howard Brackett come to terms with the fact that he really is gay, after years of denial. This crisis is brought about when one of Brackett's former students cites Brackett as the inspiration behind his Oscar-winning portrayal of a homosexual soldier.
2. This Tom plays a young lawyer, seduced by the generous offer made to him by the firm seeking to hire him. Once everything is signed, sealed and delivered, he realizes that the firm has a rather suspicious client base, and that no one ever seems to leave the firm and stay alive.
3. This Tom plays Robert Langdon, an expert in religious symbolism, who is drawn into trying to solve a bizarre murder, filled with mysterious symbols. Together with Sophie, the victim's granddaughter, they follow the trail left by the symbols and unearth a secret society protecting the identity of the last living descendant of Christ.
4. This Tom plays Lt. Kaffee, a young Navy lawyer who has perfected the art of the plea bargain. Assigned to defend two marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, Kaffee finds that he not only hates being railroaded, but also has a flair for winning in a courtroom.
5. This Tom plays Sam Weber, the star of a cop show who has gathered with his old college friends for the funeral of a mutual friend who has committed suicide. The group spends the weekend together, ruminating on how their lives have not turned out the way they had planned.
6. This Tom plays Paul Edgecomb, a former prison guard who has supervised Death Row. Paul is cursed with amazing longevity after his experiences with John Coffey, a gentle giant with incredible healing abilities, who Paul had to put to death despite knowing that Coffey was innocent.
7. This Tom plays Peter Mitchell, a successful architect living a rather unusual life as he and his friends, Michael, Jack and Sylvia, all live together so that they can all be involved in the raising of Mary. This strange living arrangement works rather well until Mary's mother, Sylvia, decides that she would like to have a more conventional life.
8. This Tom plays the vampire Lestat, an immortal who has all the time in the world to play god with other people's lives. Lestat initiates Louis into the immortal life, a life that Louis comes to hate as the years go by, a fact that he shares with reporter Daniel Malloy.
9. This Tom plays Phil Blackwood, a crime novelist who provides a bogus alibi for a beautiful Romanian woman charged with murder. Convinced of her innocence, he gives her an alibi in the hopes of sparking his creative juices and getting him past his writer's block. Instead he finds himself falling madly in love with her, while wondering if perhaps, she might actually be guilty after all.
10. This Tom plays Jimmy Dugan, a drunken baseball player brought out of retirement to manage one of the women's teams that were pulled together during WWII. Dugan is disgusted at the thought of coaching girls and isn't afraid to let them know it. Determined to play, the girls soldier on without his input, and before long he realizes just how good they really are.
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