Man and Machine in World War II

Tom Hanks was the moral conscience of America in the ’90s, so far as Hollywood was concerned, and audiences largely concurred, because he’s like a new Jimmy Stewart: he exudes moral integrity and childlike innocence. This got out of hand in 1994–95, when he won a very rare pair of back-to-back Oscars for unwatchable movies, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. By the end of the decade, he became more serious.