Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise Movie Named The Best Film Of The '90s (GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT)

Tom Cruise had a golden run of films in the 1990s and one of them was just declared the single best movie of the decade.

[feature](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/tom-cruise-creepiest-netflix-eyes-wide-shut.html) on Tom Cruise and Eyes Wide Shut, particularly focusing on how it is the very creepiest movie he ever made. Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a married New York City couple, in their third and final movie together. [IndieWire](https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-90s-movies/) recently compiled a list of the 100 best movies of the 1990s and a Tom Cruise film is at the very top of the list: the 1999 psychological sex thriller [Eyes Wide Shut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut). It is perhaps the apex of Tom Cruise the actor and his willingness to hand himself over to an acclaimed director without exerting his own personal power as a star. [Top Gun: Maverick](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/tom-cruise-miles-teller-top-gun-maverick-2.html) catapulted Tom Cruise back to the very top of the Hollywood A-list, but it is not like he ever really left it. But during the 1990s, he was also thought of as a prominent acting talent and not just really good at running on screen.

Tom Cruise improvised the underwear dance in Risky Business (The Digital Fix)

Well before his death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise was showing off his dance moves in the '80s movie Risky Business.

[Tom Cruise](https://www.thedigitalfix.com/tom-cruise) Tom Cruise has defeated Thanos (at the box office) [action movies](https://www.thedigitalfix.com/best-action-movies). [comedy movie](https://www.thedigitalfix.com/best-comedy-movies) was a huge success for all involved, not least Bob Seger, whose song became part of the fabric of Cruise’s career. [Interview Magazine](http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/tom-cruise-interview-magazine/), Tom Cruise spoke about collaborating with director Paul Brickman on that. He plays Joel, a rich, young high school student in Chicago who goes on a wild weekend when his parents skip town. We shot it in half a day.”

"How f**king dare you." The 5 celebrities who flat out refuse to work ... (Mamamia)

Read more to find out celebrities who hate Tom Cruise – including Brad Pitt, John Travolta, Russell Crowe and Brooke Shields.

[decades of questionable behaviour](https://www.mamamia.com.au/tom-cruise-weird-moments/) on Cruise's part, the actor has gotten himself back in Hollywood's good books. [ Top Gun: Maverick](https://www.mamamia.com.au/top-gun-fun-facts/) earlier this year. [Beyoncé](https://www.mamamia.com.au/beyonce-new-album/) album, two newborn [Kardashian ](https://www.mamamia.com.au/kylie-jenners-birth-teen-mums/)babies and the resurgence of...

Tom Cruise's last project before heading into space (MARCA.com)

We know that Tom Cruise is capable of almost anything, having acted nearly non-stop since the late 1980s. His career has been full of successes, ...

Once that is over, Cruise will shift to what may be his most ambitious project: filming in space. - Movies.

How Tom Cruise Inspired This Classic Disney Prince (CBR)

Tom Cruise was everywhere in the 1980s film scene, from Risky Business to Top Gun. And he even managed to sneak into a Disney film.

[Aladdin](https://www.cbr.com/tag/aladdin/) has stood the test of time [with its direct-to-video sequels](https://www.cbr.com/robin-williams-aladdin-return-of-jafar-absense-explained/), Broadway musical and the 2019 live-action film adaptation. Glen Keane, an animator for Aladdin, spoke to [The Los Angeles Times ](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-08-ca-4-story.html)about Cruise's influence on the titular character after watching Top Gun. Along with exclusive interviews with the cast, the documentary also discussed how Aladdin was modeled after Cruise and Jasmine after [Labyrinth actress Jennifer Connelly](https://www.cbr.com/top-gun-2-penny-first-film-explained/). From his breakthrough role in the 1983 comedy Risky Business to his [highest-grossing performance](https://www.cbr.com/top-gun-maverick-massive-tom-cruise-box-office-record/) in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick, the actor is hard to miss. With Fox out of the equation, Disney had to find another muse. [Tom Cruise](https://www.cbr.com/tag/tom-cruise/) in films of every genre.

The Weird Way Tom Cruise Prepared For His Collateral Role (Screen Rant)

Tom Cruise played an icy assassin in Michael Mann's 2004 thriller Collateral, and here are the strange ways he prepared to play a killer.

[Collateral (which may be an unofficial Transporter movie)](https://screenrant.com/transporter-movies-ranked-worst-best/) the object of this exercise was for Cruise to enter a crowded place - in this case, L.A.'s Central Market - and deliver a package without anybody noticing him. While these exercises were certainly unorthodox, the end result is that Cruise gave one of his best performances in Collateral, so there was a method to the madness. Both Mann and Cruise are well-known for doing heavy amounts of research and prep for their projects, but obviously in the case of Collateral's Vincent, this posed a problem.