Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to his second movie, Taps (1981)
Plot In A Paragraph: Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
I really enjoyed this movie. It's one I had to buy for this marathon, and despite the cast, (Cruise, George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn and Ronny Cox) I'm surprised I'd never heard of it before, and nobody I have spoke to remembers it. Cruise has a fairly substantial role as a hot headed cadet.
It's a really tense, engrossing, well acted and well directed movie that deserves to be seen.
Taps grossed $35 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 16th highest grossing movie of 1981.
Plot In A Paragraph: Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
I really enjoyed this movie. It's one I had to buy for this marathon, and despite the cast, (Cruise, George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn and Ronny Cox) I'm surprised I'd never heard of it before, and nobody I have spoke to remembers it. Cruise has a fairly substantial role as a hot headed cadet.
It's a really tense, engrossing, well acted and well directed movie that deserves to be seen.
Taps grossed $35 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 16th highest grossing movie of 1981.