That Thing We Did; My son and I worked as background actors on Tom Hank’s 1995 directorial debut That Thing You Do

Autumn. 1995. My husband was working on That Thing You Do, a film that Tom Hanks not only wrote and co-starred in, it was also his directorial debut. Did I want to bring our son down to the set one day and be extras, my husband wanted to know. It could be fun. He might even be able to join us for lunch. We just had to get fitted first. 

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