That Thing You Do: Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early nineteen sixty-four. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson,
unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneders (later renamed the Wonders) after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After Guy
injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonders into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the tale of many
American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion.
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