Essays Tagged: "Tom Cruise"

Movie Review of Jerry Maguire

for this movie. Let me tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. The title character, played by Tom Cruise, is a sports agent at the top of his business, and at the bottom of humanity. He works fo ... his relationship with Dorothy, and Rod's ascent to stardom. Jerry is not a typical role for Tom Cruise. He's accustomed to playing, and we're used to seeing him in, macho, heroic type roles, ( ...

(3 pages) 157 1 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Firm

e relatively small but wealthy firm wines and dines the ambitious Harvard Law Graduate's (played by Tom Cruise) with money and gifts in order to make him part of their team. Overwhelmed by the graciou ... at a person receives as a result of his or her position in the formal hierarchy of an organization. Tom Cruise did an excellent job of depiction his characters role in the organization. Mitch was a ne ...

(6 pages) 144 0 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

This is an essay on the film "Born on the fourth of July".

uly" is an extremely realisticportrayal of one American's changing beliefs and faith inhis country. Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic, an excited youngAmerican ready to serve his country. After experiencing ... ,"is it's really the experience of the people, and thesoldiers who felt these decisions from the bottom up. Stonebrought the trauma of being a soldier into the hearts ofeveryone who saw the film. The ...

(4 pages) 65 0 0.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Movie Review of An Interview with the Vampire.

should start, don't you think?"- Louis.Louis, who is made into a vampire by a vampire named Lestat (Tom Cruise), is a pathetic vampire who has a human conscience. He refuses to take human life, but ev ... ad Pitt did a wonderful job, considering that he did something different, from what he usually does.Tom Cruise, on the other hand, is a big disappointment. He plays Lestat, which is much like all the ...

(3 pages) 72 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Minority Report Film Review

tedThis change has led to the formation of a Pre-Crime unit, whose lead detective is John Anderton (Tom Cruise). Anderton and the DC police chief, Lamar Burgess (Max Von Sydow), have come from Baltimo ... oup of lawyers, would have tied up the courts with arguments against pre-crime.The performance from Tom Cruise is one he doesn't get to deliver often enough. On the job, he is a maestro, orchestrating ...

(6 pages) 67 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Movie Essay (EVALUATION) The Last Samurai

ed with impressive battle scenes and sword fights. As American military man, Captain Nathan Algren, Tom Cruise trained intensively for eight months in hand-to-hand combat, karate and Samurai style, tw ... aying surrogate dad to Taka's children, he teaches them baseball, they teach him Japanese, and soon Tom is speaking with subtitles.During a winter of captivity, as Algren struggles to master the Zen o ...

(5 pages) 77 0 4.5 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Review of The Outsiders

age drama! This movie, set in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960's, includes young heartthrobs such as Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, and Emilio Estavez. The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's book of the sa ...

(1 pages) 21 0 0.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Materialism in young children in the world today.

ing double or triple what they do at this time. They don't feel as pretty as the actress in the new Tom Cruise movie, and so they try to be like her by making their parents buy them a dress similar to ...

(11 pages) 46 0 0.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Celebrity World (celebrities are like puppets)

Tom Cruise, Tiger Woods, Kris Aquino, Manny Pacquiao. Who doesn't know them? Everybody knows them. E ... to be one of the most prominent people in the celebrity world. Hollywood couple tales, like that of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, have been big headliners. The recent Cruise and Holmes wedding has attr ...

(4 pages) 26 0 5.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

A comparison between Philip K. Dick Novel "Minority Report" and Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise's movie 'Minority Report'.

In more than one way, the film release of the Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise movie 'Minority Report' could not have been better planned than what is based on a Philip ... ie, the main characters are described and well detailed, for example its starts with John Anderton (Tom Cruise) head of an elite division of law enforcement known as "Precrime", using the visions of t ... ot been a murder in six years because of the work of people like department of Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise). The federal government is preparing to bring the experiment to the national level, but ...

(3 pages) 34 0 4.2 Feb/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Asian Men And Women

Yun Fat are really good at martial arts and funny, but would you want date them? In the other hand, Tom Cruise started on action movies like Mission Impossible and he was not as nearly good as some of ... like Mission Impossible and he was not as nearly good as some of Asian actors. But more people saw Tom than Jackie because Tom Cruise had sex appeals.There's an article saying that Asian men are beco ...

(5 pages) 22 0 4.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dear However Came Up With Dating

would keep the kiss a secret. This proposition was too hard to resist being that Eddie looked like "Tom Cruise". So, I gave in and we locked lips. After our indiscretion, Eddie left and I went to my r ...

(2 pages) 888 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Day In The Wilderness

eatly struck by nature?s apathy about all matters. It does not care who won what election, or about Tom Cruise?s divorce or matters of anything else except for time. Upon that realization, I take note ...

(5 pages) 10 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Game Shows

e looking at around $20 million a season. His income is already up in the same range as movie stars Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and Jim Carrey (Sikles). Host Philbin is able to make such a big salary beca ...

(6 pages) 2566 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Far And Away

eference to settlers that came from all around the world to be free in America and own land. Tom Cruise who plays Joseph Donelly is a poor tenant farmer whose father dies. Joseph insists on kil ...

(2 pages) 11 0 4.5 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Autism

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Born on July 3, 1962, Tom Cruise's birth name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. He was born in Syracuse, New York and was the ... d his interest for acting from his mother, who was a teacher, but immensely enjoyed amateur acting. Tom's father was an electrical engineer. His sisters are Lee Ann Maporther who is a publicist, Maria ... cist, Marian Mapother who is a teacher, and Cass Mapother who is a restaurateur. As a child, Tom was very shy and had a difficult time making friends. Even at home, he felt like an outsider sin ...

(3 pages) 15 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

In the 1986 movie Top Gun, Tom cruise stars as

In the 1986 movie Top Gun, Tom cruise stars as Maverick, an ace naval fighter pilot. Maverick is one of the best and in effect, ...

(2 pages) 2349 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Minority Report - Movie Review Essay

o the heightened change in technology. Minority Report, revolves around John Anderton (portrayed by Tom Cruise), a chief and detective that works for the newly developed justice system known as Pre-Cr ... n the non-manual labour process" she argues that the change in skill is blamed on the" increasing automation of industrial processes and the development of computer technology". (Rolfe) The invention ...

(12 pages) 53 0 0.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Decisions in Paradise III

nd be able to hire for our offices in Kava. I have already contacted our marketing department head, Tom Cruise, and our hiring department head, Don Juan, to partner up on this assignment.All businesse ... nd be able to hire for our offices in Kava. I have already contacted our marketing department head, Tom Cruise, and our hiring department head, Don Juan, to partner up on this assignment. All business ...

(10 pages) 115 0 4.0 May/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Debate: In today's world, image is everything.

look like celebrities. Well who is to say that celebrities do not work on their image. In fact poor Tom Cruise has to work on that bright smile of his more than anyone else. What with the paparazzi be ...

(2 pages) 1838 0 2.3 Aug/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing