Parallels with The Beatles: *(1) The Wonders' original band name (The Oneders) is a play on words involving music nomenclature. *(2) "That Thing You Do" is a sped-up version of a slow ballad ("Please Please Me" for The Beatles). *(3) In The Beatles' appearance in Toast of the Town: Meet The Beatles (1964), a shot of John Lennon is accompanied by the caption "Sorry Girls, He's Married." In this film, Mattingly is shown with the caption "Careful Girls, He's Engaged" during their national TV debut. *(4) Both acts first reached fame after replacing their original drummer. *(5). Each group loses its original bass player (The Beatles' original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe died and The Wonders' bassist joins the Marines). *(6). Last-minute, temporary replacement: The Wonders' bassist had to be replaced after he disappeared; during part of The Beatles' 1964 world tour, drummer Jimmy Nicol had to sit in for Ringo Starr, who was undergoing an emergency tonsillectomy. *(7) In the extended cut, it's shown that the group's manager, Mr. White, has a boyfriend. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was also gay. *(8) When The Wonders are running to their cars in Wisconsin to catch a plane to "the coast," Faye (Liv Tyler) gets mistaken for a female fan and stopped by the police from following the band. A similar incident happened when The Beatles were traveling to see Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. While running to board a train, John Lennon's then wife, Cynthia Lennon, was stopped because she was mistaken for a female fan. Unlike the film's version, no one came back to retrieve Cynthia before the train left the station.

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