The star may have had us at “Hello,” but he still figured out a way to continue to be Tom Cruise™ even while expanding his range and appearing in more ambitious films. That image helped fuel such later successes as Top Gun and Cocktail, but Cruise also smartly complicated it, first in films like Born on the Fourth of July and Rain Man, and later in films like Magnolia and Minority Report. Whether he was a working class football star ( All the Right Moves) or an entitled dork ( Risky Business), he was always “Tom Cruise” - driven, laser-focused and upright, even when running a fly-by-night brothel out of his parents’ house. In his annus mirabilis of 1983, he seemed to appear fully-formed from the collective id of Reagan’s America - the then–21-year-old actor appeared in no less than four movies, and starred in three of them. It was certainly a risk that paid off for everyone involved, especially Cruise.Tom Cruise has been a movie star for almost 40 years now. The film grossed $63.5 million, according to Box Office Mojo, and was labeled "one of the smartest, funniest, most perceptive satires in a long time" by film critic Roger Ebert. Despite Cruise's behavior while making the film, "Risky Business" was a massive success and the beginning of Cruise's ascent to superstardom in Hollywood. In the movie, Joel's father tells Cruise's character, "Every once in a while you just got to say, 'what the heck' and take some chances." Apparently, it's advice that the actor himself took to heart. The two of them, like as not, would either still be in bed or lounging in underwear. The curtains were drawn against the light no matter what time it was. A rich musk of dirty laundry, cigarette smoke, alcohol, and young white male. There was a heady scent to the place, too. There were clothes covering the entire floor. It looked like someone had blown up a convention of rising young '80s actors. "Going into the room just a couple of days after Sean's arrival was a revelation. Penn starred with Cruise in "Taps" the prior year, and immediately brought out a different side of the actor.
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