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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of finding it, he loses it, and so much else: his unexamined ideals, his blinkered innocence, his respect for those who still believe the lies that nurtured him. Ron would give up all those values just to be whole again. The film spends only 17 minutes in Viet Nam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Whereas Platoon had news value, Born on the Fourth of July tells a familiar story; it wants to teach us what we already know. The movie's uniqueness is in its tone. Stone plays director as if he were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

In Louisville, Mary Lee rallied the children. As Lee Anne recalls, her mother said, "O.K., things have changed. This is the new game plan." With no child support available, Mary Lee juggled three jobs, and the children earned money too -- especially Tom, then twelve. "All of a sudden, I was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Throughout, Stone kept winding Cruise tighter. "I put a lot of pressure on Tom," he says, "maybe too much. I wanted him to read more, visit more hospitals. I wanted him to spend time in that chair, to really feel it. He went to boot camp twice, and I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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