That Thing That You Do

We watched the DVD "That Thing That You Do."

Synopsis

Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott), unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneders (later renamed the Wonders) after regular drummer Chad (Giovanni Ribisi) breaks his arm. After Guy injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmy's (Johnathan Schaech)ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonders into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the one-hit wonder tale of many American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion.