Outsiders, The: How Coppola Launched the Careers of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon in his 1983 Movie

The film, based on S.E. Hinton’s 1963 novel, launched the careers of many of its young stars, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Diane Lane, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon and Emilio Estevez. 

Top Gun: Next Generation: TV Series to Go Inside Navy Pilot School

Top Gun: The Next Generation follows a group of U.S. Navy student pilots as they train to become fighter pilots in the military’s Advanced Flight Training Program.

All the Right Moves (1983): Small-Town Melodrama, Starring Young Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson

This compromised picture want to have it both ways, underline the precarious economic conditions, the limited career options, the life-sapping work and yet show in a fake happy ending (that negates most of what precedes it) a more optimistic outlook to the point where the characters become vessel of ideas rather than full-fleshed individuals.

 

 

War of the Worlds (2005): Spielberg’s Version of Wells Sci-Fi, Starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Tim Robbins

If “Jurassic Park” was “Jaws” with claws, “War of the Worlds” is “E.T.” gone bad. Spielberg's retelling of the Wells classic is a big, noisy, scary movie committed to mass entertainment at all costs.