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A Hologram for the King Review

Cultures collide when an American businessman named Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. His mission: sell a state-of-the-art holographic teleconferencing system to the Saudi government. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver named Yousef (Alexander Black) and a beautiful Saudi doctor named Zahra Hakem...

Bow Down to the Hanks (A Hologram for the King Trailer)

I’ve always been a big Tom Hanks fan. There isn’t one movie of his that I’ve seen which I didn’t like (I didn’t like The Da Vinci Code). So to learn that he would be a part of this upcoming film, “A Hologram for the King”, has made me partially excited. The story here isn’t particularly original as it has been in several other movies over the last year. Here is another clueless American goes to...

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