Tom Cruise's Hollywood Blockbusters
Cruise became a full-fledged action hero as the brash flight-school pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in "Top Gun." In this coming-of-age classic, he is the very embodiment of Reagan-era patriotism. Here, Cruise, with the film's producers, demonstrates that sort of brash alpha-dog independence that any man wants to impart to a child. "You can be my wingman," fellow flier Val Kilmer tells him. "Bullsh--," Maverick replies. "You can be mine!"
(Paramount Pictures)
