The Last Star In Hollywood

41: American Made

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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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