Tom Hanks w/a Mullet

He does start out the film with terrible hair, but this is part of his overall downtrodden state; bad hair, bad clothes, bad job, bad apartment etc. Then we get the scene where Carol Kane works her "Shazam" magic, and Joe is transformed. And in a larger real-world aspect, I've always taken note of that moment as being transformative of Hanks himself. Before this film, he'd had success in goofy and bawdy comedies ("Splash", "Bachelor Party" and "Dragnet") but he (and his mullet) had fallen on hard times in such fare as "The Burbs", "Turner And Hooch" and "Bonfire Of The Vanities". Then hey presto, he does this film, gets his hair cut, and we get the unqualified triumphs of "Sleepless In Seattle", "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump". It's a shame that Hanks seems to have tossed the quirky and wonderful "Joe" in with a period of career he'd rather forget, because I think it's in this film that his future dramatic stardom first begins to shine.

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