In 1985, Val Kilmer was a Real Genius, which it turns out is one rank below Top Gun, at least chronologically. In what some (well, one) consider Kilmer’s greatest film role, he shepherds a younger and perhaps realer genius through a college gauntlet of enemy dickey-wearers, mysterious closet passer-throughers, an administrator serving the perpetrators of a military weapons system, wacky parties, and even a girl!

So he was sandwiched between two “Top”s.

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In what and where can you find Kurt Russell? Big Trouble in Little China.

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