# Any more movies with Tom Hanks pissing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 21, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112 "2001-01-21T07:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/1 "2001-01-21T07:22:37Z")
The wife and I saw “The Green Mile” on video last week. Great performance by Tom Hanks, he certainly could portray a guy suffering from a urinary tract infection. Saw “Cast Away” tonight, noted him pissing in the surf. The wife and I got to wondering: Does he piss in any other of his movies? We haven’t seen a lot of them, we couldn’t recall if he did in “Apollo 13” or not, maybe that scene of urine dumps in outer space was from “The Right Stuff”. So were these two flicks a fluke, or is it a Tom Hanks tradition to make male micturition on screen more acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/2 "2001-01-21T07:29:16Z")
Well, in _Forest Gump_ he told JFK, “I gotta pee!”, whilst grabbing his crotch. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/3 "2001-01-21T07:31:51Z")
Well, there’s one scene in A League of Their Own… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/4 "2001-01-21T07:32:12Z")
He doesn’t actuall pee in “The Money Pit,” but he does commisserate with a statue of a uninating cherub. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/5 "2001-01-21T07:34:21Z")
Hmmmm…what does this mean? An actor with a history of spastic bladder? Urophilia? Addiction to the piss shiver? This guy bears watching! ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/6 "2001-01-21T07:46:36Z")
He doesn’t have a peeing scene in _Sleepless in Seattle_ but there is a scene of him in the bathroom talking to his son. In _The 'burbs_, he pretends to have to go to the bathroom to go exploring in his neighbors’ house. I think you may be onto something here… ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/7 "2001-01-21T09:01:21Z")
What about Big? Wasn’t there _something_ in there? ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_Saoud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Phil\_Saoud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phil_Saoud)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/8 "2001-01-21T12:57:15Z")
I’d be willing to bet that he pisses in Turner and Hooch. At what point does this become silly??? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/9 "2001-01-21T20:26:21Z")
Yes, the urine being released into space scene was in _Apollo 13_, but I don’t recall if the scene also included the previous release of the urine. To be fair, though, a number of astronauts have commented on the impressive spectacle produced by such disposal of waste, and it is a real part of space missions. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/10 "2001-01-21T20:41:23Z")
I am now more curious than ever about what percentage of movies with tom hanks in it have references to males urinating, and how that ratio compares to similar statistics for other male stars. Perhaps it’s a liberal hollywood media plot of some kind. Or some kind of therapeutic measure to help people overcome bashful bladder, the inability to void if someone’s watching. Help me out here, dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Quadzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a4c791/32.png) [@Quadzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quadzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/11 "2001-01-21T21:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes, the urine being released into space scene was in Apollo 13, but I don’t recall if the scene also included the previous release of the urine. Just watched this again yesterday, Chronos 😃 The scene shows him with the bag hooked up to his suit, then reconnecting the hose to the suit and making some jocular comment about urinating in space. The movie also includes a scene prior to this where Hanks attempts (badly) to answer a woman’s question about how they go to the bathroom in space. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/12 "2001-01-21T22:43:06Z")
Joe Vs the Volcano was basically Tom Hanks pissing into the camera for an hour and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/13 "2001-01-21T23:11:50Z")
OK, here’s a move list, I think it’s current. although I might have missed a recent film. Can anyone help me flesh this out? 0 Cast Away (2000) Tom Pissing 1 \*Toy Story 2 (1999) 2 The Green Mile (1999) Tom Pissing 3 You’ve Got Mail (1998) 4 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 5 That Thing You Do! 6 Toy Story (1995) 7 Apollo 13 (1995) Urine dumps in space 8 Forrest Gump (1994) grabs groin, tells JFK he needs to pee 9 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) talks to son in the can 10 Philadelphia (1993) 11 League of Their Own, A (1992) Said to containpissing 12 Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990) 13 Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) 14 Turner & Hooch (1989) 15 burbs, The (1989) pretends he has to pee 16 Big (1988) 17 Punchline (1988) 18 Dragnet (1987) 19 Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986) 20 Money Pit, The (1986) talks to pissing statue 21 Nothing in Common (1986) 22 Man with One Red Shoe, The (1985) 23 Volunteers (1985) 24 Bachelor Party (1984) 25 Splash (1984) 26 He Knows You’re Alone (1980) ---
**Author:** ![trose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@trose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trose)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/14 "2001-01-21T23:18:40Z")
I seem to recall some comic bit in Big with Tom wriggling around like the little kid he was inside because he needed to pee. I don’t remember the follow-through though. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/15 "2001-01-22T03:06:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by trose \* > \*\*I seem to recall some comic bit in Big with Tom wriggling around like the little kid he was inside because he needed to pee. I don’t remember the follow-through though. \*\* Thanks, trose, I’ll add that to the list. Anybody else got any fills? ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/16 "2001-01-22T03:22:51Z")
Could this be why Tom Hanks is thought of as the everyman, and is so popular? I mean, what other big actors do you actually see peeing in a large number of their movies? That’s just a rhetorical question, by the way. I’m not asking for statistics. ---
**Author:** ![kbutcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@kbutcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbutcher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/17 "2001-01-22T05:00:07Z")
Tom was definately involved in a pissing scene in “a league of their own”. One of the girls on the team (played by madonna?) timed it. ---
**Author:** ![K3v1n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@K3v1n](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K3v1n)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/18 "2001-01-22T12:33:46Z")
He was peeing in Forrest Gump, they showed him in the bathroom zipping his fly… then they showed the Marilyn Monroe picture. ---
**Author:** ![Nurlman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Nurlman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurlman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/19 "2001-01-22T13:59:49Z")
People, have you no faith in the internet? This is the Information Superhighway, you know, not some Information Rutted Dirt Road Out Back By The Old Pickett Farm. Try [Patch’s Pee Movie List](http://www.patches.org/pml/pml01.shtml): > [@](#): > > The Pee Movie List is intended to be the world’s most comprehensive and thorough guide to urination in the cinema. All known movies containing a “pee scene” are listed. Just a little something to bookmark for future reference… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112/20 "2001-01-22T14:11:18Z")
Now _that’s_ a Weird Earl. I dare ya, Tuba. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-more-movies-with-tom-hanks-pissing/51112.md?page=2)