This week, a rare Tom Cruise character-actor performance in Doug Liman’s stylish satire American Made. Is this the Gen-X Forrest Gump? Who expected a Liman/Cruise movie to be this different from Edge of Tomorrow?
Unanswered Questions:
- Is there value in so comprehensively fictionalizing a true story?
- Does American Made work for audiences which aren’t familiar with the Reagan-era war on drugs?
- How does the Tom Cruise movie-star persona help (or hinder) the satirical intent of this film?
Further reading:
- Mena, Arkansas
- Barry Seal
- “The Awful Accident That Happened While Filming Tom Cruise’s ‘American Made’” (Collider)
- Hooked On Classics
- “National Anthem” (Lana Del Rey)
- Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
- McGruff The Crime Dog
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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