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Tom Hanks, a desert island, and a volleyball named Wilson. Robert Zemeckis stranded America's most trusted movie star alone on screen for the better part of two hours — and made one of the biggest hits of 2000 out of silence, sunburn, and a volleyball with a face.
Robert Zemeckis' 2004 motion-capture Christmas film became the instant classic everyone either loved or found genuinely unsettling — sometimes both. Tom Hanks played six roles in a $165 million fever dream about a boy who boards a magical train on Christmas Eve, backed by an Oscar-nominated Josh Groban ballad. It's now a December rite: the movie every elementary school saves for pajama day.