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Cocktail ** (1988, Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue) – Classic Movie Review 2057

Director Roger Donaldson’s hollow, vacant and fakely concocted 1988 American romantic drama Cocktail is not a good movie. But it is a glossy, good-looking, entertaining one, acceptable, even enjoyable, as a guilty pleasure. It won two […]

Jan, 08

The Firm *** (1993, Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn) – Classic Movie Review 1536

Director Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a promising young Harvard Law attorney about to sit his Bar exam. He is approached by Alice Davison, Lambert & Locke (The Firm) […]

Aug, 11

All the Right Moves *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Craig T Nelson, Lea Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1522

Director Michael Chapman’s sensitive 1983 sports and coming-of-age drama All the Right Moves provides an engaging early vehicle for Tom Cruise. The megastar-to-be is on compelling and convincing form as Stefen Djordjevic, an eager and stubborn […]

Aug, 05

Losin’ It *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P Navin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 1521

Director Curtis Hanson’s little-known 1983 comedy stars the 21-year-old Tom Cruise as Woody, a young and innocent Los Angeles kid, who heads south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico, with three stereotypically rowdy and randy […]

Aug, 05

The Outsiders ***** (1983, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1519

In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola conjures up a dream cast for his first of his two adaptations of an S E Hinton classic novel about youth. It is set in 1966 and follows the disturbed, […]

Aug, 04

Top Gun **** (1986, Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 1517

Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun shot the 24-year-old Tom Cruise into the Hollywood stratosphere. Director Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun shot Tom Cruise into the Hollywood stratosphere as Lieutenant Pete […]

Aug, 04

Legend *** (1985, Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry) – Classic Movie Review 1516

Director Ridley Scott’s quite enchanting, glorious looking, magical 1985 fantasy adventure stars the hot young 23-year-old star Tom Cruise as a woodland creature, the forest boy called Jack O’ the Green, who is trying to save a unicorn […]

Aug, 04

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