Tag: Tom Cruise
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6 On-Screen Clues That Far and Away Is Set in the 1890s
Far and Away (1992) follows two Irish immigrants across the Atlantic and halfway across America, chasing land they can actually call their own. Ron Howard set the story in the 1890s, and the details he put on screen do most of the work of placing you there. Here are six things you can see in…
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7 Ways Born on the Fourth of July Transformed Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise entered Born on the Fourth of July (1989) with an image audiences already understood. Movies like Top Gun had made him a natural fit for confident, ambitious young men who seemed to expect the world to open up in front of them. Oliver Stone saw that familiarity as something he could use rather…