Say what you will about Tom Cruise but the man nearly owned a decade. If it weren’t for some choice Arnold Schwarzenegger movies I would say Cruise owned the decade:
5) Rain Man (1988)
Fast-talking yuppie Charlie Babbitt is forced to slow down when he meets a brother he never knew he had, an autistic savant named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman, in an Oscar-winning role) who’s spent most of his life in an institution. When their wealthy father dies, leaving everything to Raymond, Charlie takes his unusually gifted older brother on a life-changing cross-country odyssey that neither is likely to forget.
4) The Color of Money (1986)
The hustler isn’t what he used to be: “Fast” Eddie Felson (Oscar-winner Paul Newman) has given up pool for life as a liquor salesman. But then he meets Vincent (Tom Cruise), a cocky natural who makes a cue ball crack like a lightning bolt. Eddie takes Vincent under his wing and on the road, but are teacher and student destined to become competitors?
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September 30th, 2009 at 5:32 am
TC was definitely the guy for movies in the 80’s loved all the clips