Saved by Starbucks
Tom Hanks continues a disturbing trend for an immensely talented actor with his newest project: How Starbucks Saved My Life. In it, he’s slated to play a down-and-out former executive whose empty life is given new purpose when he finds Jesus gets a job at Starbucks and devotes himself to serving the poor the trendy and upwardly mobile.
In Cast Away, his brilliant acting was able to obscure, if barely, the fact that it was essentially an extended FedEx commercial. In a movie like this, no matter how well he and director Gus van Sant acquit themselves, I just don’t see the artistic facade holding.
One way or the other, it looks like he’s spearheading a trend. Thank you, Mr. Hanks, for welcoming our 120-minute-commercial overlords.