Again more debate in the office… this time on Tom Cruise – always the superstar and always in blockbusters. So what are our top ten Tom Cruise Films?
Tough choice since there are a few we have missed out (Interview with a Vampire, Eyes Wide Shut, Minority Report, Collateral, Lions for Lambs, Vanilla Sky, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible, Legend etc. – many of whom were nominated for an Academy Award, but who cares about those right???) but for what it is worth, here’s our list.
10.Cocktail – Feel good eighties film with TC trying to make it big – who can forget the bartender poet or Elisabeth Shue’s conversation about luglebinders.
9. Born on the Forth of July – Biography of Ron Kovic, who was paralised in the Vietnam War who becomes a pro-human rights activist. Arguably could have been much higher in the list.
8. A Few Good Men – You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! Did Jack Nicholson order the “Code Red” or didn’t he? Just brilliantly written court room drama.
7. Risky Business – Breakthrough film, about the rich kid who gets left alone by his parents with keys to the Porsche. Manages to trash the house while making money out of it. We chose this one on nostagla as much as anything else.
6. Top Gun – controversially should have been higher because of its box office success, in Tony Scott’s massive if not, very camp, movie. A young Meg Ryan in support who really went on to do nothing afterwards except be remembered for the word ‘Yes’, Sleepless in Seattle and a few other little films; Anthony Edwards who did things in hospitals; and Kelly McGillis who will remember this film as her career highlight.
5. The Firm – The lawyer who gets his big break and is accepted into ‘the firm’. When he finds out that everyone but him are corrupt, he gets trapped between the FBI, his wish not to lost his wife and a corroding Gene Hackman. Great Stuff and the usual John Grisham clever, if predictable, ending.
4. Jerry Maguire – great script, great cast, the sports agent who in 1 document manages to ruin his career.
3. Magnolia – The long haired Tony Robbins style guru. A bit part, but great work and more importantly a truly great film,, a must see.
2. The Color of Money – Follow up film to The Hustler with Paul Newman as Fast Eddie, who teaches hot-headed Tom Cruise how to become a hustler, and then makes a comeback himself. Great cast and as usual vintage box office performance.
1. Rain Main – winner of numerous academy awards, Dustin Hoffman is simply brilliant.
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