How this movie would make anyone either laugh or cry is beyond me. I normally turn off a movie after 20 minutes if it's not doing it for me. I gave it 45 because of it's reputation, it didn't improve. Hanks' put on accent comes across as false and extremely irritating. If a movie is going to move me it needs to wrench me - like Requiem For A Dream or Breaking The Waves, for example. I felt nothing but boredom.