While this may have been a novel concept when Tom Hanks did it in 2004, the skills to play several different roles in one movie came back when he did something similar in 2012 for Cloud Atlas.

Tom Hanks was born on July 9 ... More recently, Hanks appeared in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Post (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) for ...

The recurring cast includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry ... Although frequently bad, nobody could accuse Cloud Atlas of being boring. Whatever its merits - or otherwise - the film sank like a stone ...

Amazon Prime has subtly added a Tom Hanks film that was panned by critics but hailed as a 'cinematic masterpiece' by some fans, with some left 'crying nonstop'.

It also allows Tom Hanks to “play” multiple roles, pre-visioning what he’d do in Cloud Atlas almost a decade later (around the same time Zemeckis would set aside his mo-cap rigs).