Genre: Romance, Drama, Coming Of Age, Sports, School / Campus, Teenage, Love
Tagline: He has everything at stake. He can't afford to lose. He's got to make all the right moves.
Plot: The only way football star Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) will avoid a life in the blast furnaces of his bleak Pennsylvania hometown is by winning a college scholarship. Even his coach (Craig T. Nelson) dreams of parlaying a winning team into a college job far away from this graveyard of the American Dream. But it's not too long before the two virtually ruin each other's chances for escape and their door to the future starts to close. Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star.Stefan (Tom Cruise) is determined to leave the sleepy Pennsylvania mining town of Ampipe where he is growing up. An exceptional athlete, Stef sees football as his ticket out. His pursuit of a scholarship, however, brings him at odds with his combative coach (Craig T. Nelson). While rebelling against his coach and his town, Stef takes up with Lisa Litski (Lea Thompson), an attractive schoolmate and talented saxophone player. Cruise graduated to leading man status with this film, one of many early 1980s pictures with strong teen identities. His sexy, defiant presence carries the film. First time director Michael Chapman (cinematographer of TAXI DRIVER and many other films) proves himself especially adept in capturing the intense football sequences.
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Michael Kane
Smokey and the Bandit II, Southern Comfort, The Legend of the Lone Ranger |
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Tom Cruise
War of the Worlds, Minority Report, Magnolia |
 | Lea Thompson
Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III |
 | Chris Penn
Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Starsky & Hutch |
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Cliffhanger, Cool Runnings, Buffalo Soldiers |
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Shaft, The X-Files, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Gary Graham
Steel, The Hollywood Knights, Enterprise: Broken Bow | |
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