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ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
(1983)
Cruise plays a high school jock whose only ticket out of
a dying steel town is a football scholarship. Naturally,
he locks horns with the coach and navigates girlfriend
issues. An artifact of the ‘80s teen movie boom with lots of
gratuitous T&A – as Rose McGowan notes in
Scream
, “if
you pause it just right, you can see his…”
FAR AND AWAY
(1992)
This big budget misfire from director Ron Howard teams
Cruise with his then missus Nicole Kidman as Irish
immigrants seeking to start a new life in America. The part
requires him to adopt a convincing Irish accent, but sadly
he’s no Meryl Streep in that department, to be sure.
LEGEND
(1985)
Ridley Scott’s dreamy, soft-focus and blatantly studio-
bound fairytale fantasy cast the then rising star as a
puckish hero named Jack of the Forest. Cruise is nothing
if not earnest – and check out those teeth! – but his
performance is completely overwhelmed by Tim Curry’s
imposing red devil.
INTERVIEWWITH THE VAMPIRE
(1994)
In the wake of Anne Rice’s furious declarations of
miscasting, Cruise makes a fearless attempt to breathe life
into undead villain Lestat. With a blonde wig, powdered
face and frilly shirt, Tom looks like he’s stepped out of a
Duran Duran music video, and is ultimately upstaged by
11-year-old Kirsten Dunst.
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
(1989)
The pick of this bunch. Oliver Stone’s blistering biopic
of Vietnam vet Ron Kovic is one of the Cruiser’s finest
performances to date – an Oscar-nominated turn that
seemed positively revelatory back in ’89, and still is.
Moreover, the film’s themes remain depressingly relevant
to those fighting abroad today.
MAGNOLIA
(1999)
Respect the cocksure Cruise! The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences certainly did, with a Best
Supporting Actor nomination. He’s refreshingly – and
unexpectedly – cast against type as an incredibly vain
self-help guru, and stands, err, tall amongst the strong
ensemble cast of P.T. Anderson’s rambling drama.
There’s no denying Tom Cruise’s superstar status, but his long career isn’t all impossible
missions, daredevil stunts and a need for speed. And if you want the truth, as Tom so
diligently demanded of Jack Nicholson in
A Few Good Men
, we’ve curated a special
Cruise movie marathon of some of his more atypical – and just plain peculiar – roles. So
microwave the popcorn, kick back, and set your mind to Cruise control…
If you haven’t had enough of Tom Cruise after this six-pack, add
Vanilla Sky
(2001) and
Tropic Thunder
(2008) to the line-up.
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