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A HOLOGRAM FOR A KING

By Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 4/28/16

* * ½

(Sweet little love story)

Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, an American businessman who is faced with culture shock while doing business in Saudi Arabia.

He loses a big contract on a …

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See it at the Movies

A HOLOGRAM FOR A KING

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* * ½

(Sweet little love story)

Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, an American businessman who is faced with culture shock while doing business in Saudi Arabia.

He loses a big contract on a “holographic teleconferencing system” to his competitors while he is obsessed with his recent divorce and problems with his daughter. He goes to a beautiful Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury) for an unusual problem on his back, overcoming their cultural differences and finding much in common. There is a beautiful scene of the two snorkeling in the crystal-clear ocean, which is about the most interesting thing in the movie.

Hanks, one of our favorite actors, doesn’t do much to make this movie more than a TV rental. Watching Colin Hanks, a true look-alike, in “Elvis & Nixon,” across the hall at Warwick Showcase was much more fun.

Rated R because of brief profanity, sex and nudity. 

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