Celebrate Tom Holland’s 26th birthday by revisiting 6 of his best-selling works
Today, July 1, 2022, Tom Holland is turning 26 years old! Famous for bringing the current version of Spider-Man to life, the actor has participated in several incredible and diverse films. And to celebrate his birthday, we’ve selected 6 movies that feature Holland for you to watch.
Check it out:
Spider-Man: Homecoming
While there are several films where Tom Holland takes on the role of Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Homecoming opens the trilogy of the actor in the MCU, as well as marking the return of the character to the Marvel Studios. After his first fight alongside the Avengers, Peter returns home, but his life is far from normal again. While he spends his time fighting petty crimes in the neighborhood, Parker finds himself embroiled in the scuffles of the villain Vulture, who smuggles in alien items left on Earth during the Battle of New York.
- Name: Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Where to watch: Netflix and Globoplay
cherry
If you’ve met Tom through Marvel and believe he’s not capable of taking on more serious roles in Hollywood, you need to watch Cherry. Based on the true story of Nico Walker, the film tells about a young man who enlists in the army and ends up being sent to Iraq, leaving his girlfriend Emily behind. However, when he is unable to cope with the atrocities of the war, he returns home and develops PTSD. Thus, the ex-soldier ends up getting addicted to opioids and drugs, which leads him to get involved in the criminal world to support his addiction.
- Name: Cherry (2020)
- Where to watch: Apple TV+
The impossible
Long before Spider-Man, Tom was part of a big Hollywood movie while he was still a kid. Alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, Holland stars in The Impossible, a feature based on true events about a family that is on winter vacation in Thailand. However, the worst comes to pass when after Christmas Eve, a devastating tsunami hits the place, splitting the family into two groups that must battle to stay alive and be reunited.
- Name: The Impossible (2012)
- Where to watch: Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, Star+
Uncharted: Off the Map
Based on the video game of the same name, Uncharted is one of the last releases with Tom Holland in the cast. In the film, he plays the protagonist Nathan Drake, who is a descendant of the great explorer Francis Drake. While working as a bartender, Nate ends up getting involved with Sully, who takes him on his first scavenger hunt adventure around the world.
- Name: Uncharted: Off the Map (2022)
- Where to watch: Prime Video, through rental
The Devil of Every Day
Being one of the actor’s first more serious bets after Peter Parker, Tom Holland plays Arvin Russell in the movie The Devil of Every Day, where several different stories end up connecting at some point. Arvin, who is fatherless and motherless, lives in the shadows of a troubled period of his childhood. While his grandmother tries to make him a good man, Arvin must deal with his overprotectiveness with his half-sister Lenora and the arrival of a reverend that ends up alarming his distrust.
- Name: Everyday Devil (2020)
- Where to watch: Netflix
Two brothers
Perfect to watch with the whole family, Two Brothers was the first film voiced by Tom Holland to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. In a world where fantasy is real, in the magical underground city of New Mushroomton, the two teenage elf brothers, Barley and Ian Lightfoot, end up embarking on an adventure to discover if their world holds magic for them to be reunited with their late father.
- Name: Two Brothers – A Fantastic Journey (2020)
- Where to watch: Disney+
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