By Chris Willman Music Writer It’s a fine line between faux one-hit wonders and real one-hit Oneders when it comes to “That Thing You Do!,” which might be one of the most fondly remembered movies of the mid-’90s, but one that feels like an underdog, even now, 25 years later, with an entire generation’s worth of home video favoritism behind it.
That it still inspires such affection and is remembered as more of a box-office success than it was is due to so many factors: Tom Hanks’ sweet script and direction; the chemistry of actor-bandmates Ethan Embry, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Everett Scott and Steve Zahn; and that thing that the late Adam Schlesinger did… a crucial title song that the whole movie was going to rise or sink on, as something
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