Apex Mountain
Hanks’s mid-1990s summit, Quinlan’s nomination and Houston’s championship era
In the discussion (11)
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- Hanks’s Forrest Gump–Apollo 13–Toy Story period is a leading choice
- Later freedom to direct or take unusual roles is offered as another measure of Hanks’s power
- Howard’s A Beautiful Mind acclaim is preferred
- Sinise’s Forrest Gump–Apollo 13 period is accepted
- Bacon’s Footloose breakthrough is preferred
- Houston’s back-to-back Rockets titles alongside the film are favored over the Beyoncé-birth alternative
- Harris’s peak is placed somewhere between this and The Truman Show
- Quinlan’s Oscar nomination supports her apex
- Grazer is considered without a firm conclusion
- Space movies are rejected because of Star Wars and 2001
- American idealism and ingenuity are debated in relation to 1970 versus 1995
