Tom Hanks: America's Chronicler-in-Chief

John Adams, 2008 Paul Giamatti stars as the second U.S. President in this Hanks-produced intimate history of America's birth and painful infancy.
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John Adams, 2008
Paul Giamatti stars as the second U.S. President in this Hanks-produced history of America's birth and painful infancy.

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