Tom Hanks · 1990s

9 Tom Hanks movies from the 1990s on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 4 S-Tier picks including The Green Mile, Philadelphia, Sleepless in Seattle.

Decade

All 28 1980s 2 1990s 9 2000s 6 2010s 8 2020s 3

Year

All 9 1990 0 1991 0 1992 1 1993 2 1994 1 1995 2 1996 0 1997 0 1998 1 1999 2

Philadelphia(1993)

7.7/10

dir. Jonathan Demme

S-Tier

S-Tier Sony 4K. Demme's 1993 AIDS drama with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Sony's 4K has a massive subtitle language list. Thin dedicated collector discussion around the 4K disc specifically, though the film regularly appears in collection photos.

Sony Pictures · 25th Anniversary Edition

A League of Their Own(1992)

7.2/10

dir. Penny Marshall

S-Tier

S-Tier Sony 4K. Strong extras package with audio commentary, deleted scenes, and TV series episodes.

Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

6.7/10

dir. Nora Ephron

S-Tier

Part of the Columbia Classics Vol. 4 box set alongside Punch-Drunk Love and Starman. People who just bought the Criterion Punch-Drunk Love were annoyed. The box set gets praise for being one of the strongest selections since Vol. 1. Standalone availability may come eventually, but for now it's box set or nothing. The film itself has aged in interesting ways, with modern viewers noting the parasocial relationship dynamics more critically.

Sony Pictures · 4K Box Set (Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Volume 4)

The Green Mile(1999)

8.5/10

dir. Frank Darabont

S-Tier

Warner S-Tier 4K. The Green Mile steelbook kept selling out at Gruv and getting restocked, with people stuck on backorders for weeks. The Darabont/King emotional gut-punch lands differently at this resolution, and the HDR gives the prison interiors depth the old Blu-ray flattened.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

Apollo 13(1995)

7.7/10

dir. Ron Howard

A-Tier

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Forrest Gump(1994)

8.5/10

dir. Robert Zemeckis

A-Tier

A-Tier Paramount 4K. Tom Hanks on a bench. The transfer is clean and Paramount gave it standard packaging at a reasonable price.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

Toy Story(1995)

8.0/10

dir. John Lasseter

A-Tier

Disney A-Tier 4K, available individually or in the 29-Pixar steelbook set. Best Buy cycles these through sales at $9.99-$14.99 USD a few times a year.

Walt Disney Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

Toy Story 2(1999)

7.6/10

dir. John Lasseter

A-Tier

Disney A-Tier 4K. The Pixar steelbook collection has matching art across the trilogy and animation collectors are trying to complete the set. Best Buy sales are the usual entry point.

Walt Disney Studios · Ultimate Collector's Edition

Saving Private Ryan(1998)

8.2/10

dir. Steven Spielberg

B-Tier

B-Tier from Paramount on a film that deserves better. The steelbook has been commanding high resale prices, with some listings hitting $200 USD. Sony taking over Disney's disc production created temporary OOP situations across Paramount's catalog too, and Saving Private Ryan availability fluctuated. The Omaha Beach sequence is the obvious demo material, but the B-Tier transfer means it's not showing what a proper 4K restoration could.

Paramount Pictures · Commemorative 20th Anniversary Edition