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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