A Hologram for the King
Directed by Tom Tykwer
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back. From TMDB
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A Hologram for the King is a 2016 comedy drama film, directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury and Sidse Babett Knudsen.
- 10 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews
- posts span Sep 9, 2016 to Oct 14, 2026
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10 of 10 · most liked firstJust watched a Tom Hanks movie I’d never heard of called A Hologram For The King. It’s based on the novel by Dave Evers and it’s quite hard to describe - the best I can do is “a Kafkaesque romantic comedy set in Saudi Arabia” It’s free on Amazon Prime this weekend. Worth a try
positive · AI labelView post →Losing my mind that Tom Hanks was in a movie called A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been getting updates on this project for a couple of years. The scale was always very suspect at best. Kind of reminds of that Tom Hanks movie, A Hologram for the King.
neutral · AI labelView post →Larry Crowne (2011) is very _very_ bland and bad Hanks film. And not goof-bad or kooky-bad.. no, just bad. I like some of his bad films like A Hologram for the King (2016) but this is something to forget, honestly. www.imdb.com/title/tt1583...
positive · AI labelView post →A Hologram for the King. Not particularly memorable but watchable Tom Hanks / Tom Tykwer film set in Saudi Arabia.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also Tom Hanks in A Hologram for the King, a very dull movie with so much more fully nude male scuba diving than you could possibly assume.
negative · AI labelView post →With that said, movie of the night is A Hologram for the King. Time to see if this Tom could recapture the magic of another Tom by the name of Tyker after their excellent pairing in Cloud Atlas.
positive · AI labelView post →Now, let us move onto one of Egypt's millionaires, Potiphar: This took a long while to consider, but after learning of him being the lead opposite Tom Hanks in the movie "A Hologram for the King" and being capable of Chameleon-like transformations, I decided Omar Elba would fit perfectly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every movie should be like A Hologram For The King
neutral · AI labelView post →About a salesman who went to sell his product sold himself. I like this director, one of his film was in my all time favourite list. But I'm not sure what happened to him lately, he's not the same as what he was a decade ago. This is his worse to far I've seen. He's better than this, but he chose a wrong book. It was based on the book of the same name that tells the story of an American salesman whose last chance to get back on the track goes to saudiarabia to sell his product to the king. But…
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