In 1983, another Cruise vehicle had even better moves: Risky Business. Starring: James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker and Ron Lester.
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Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star. Or 0.00 with a Cinemax trial on Prime Video Channels. Michael Chapman, Martin Scorsese's favorite cinematographer, made his directorial debut with this gritty little winner, which benefits from being shot on location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and which is set to a great Jennifer Warnes-Chris Thompson theme song. Unlike other Cruise blockbusters, this film has a soundtrack filled with low-budget pop.
Nelson, in a terrific villain role, is the coach who takes revenge when Cruise's ambitions drift a little too close to home. Starring a young Tom Cruise, All the Right Moves is a rather dank film depicting desperate relationships between a high-school football team, an ambitious coach, and blue-collar fans all struggling in a dying Pennsylvania steel-mining town. Tom Cruise plays a mill-town football star determined to escape the same traps that ensnared his parents. It's not only a helluva coming-of-age yarn, but also, like Paul Newman's Slapshot, it's a bracing look at the hopes and dreams of blue-collar survivors.
This one defies the odds and scores both as decent character study and decidedly unsentimental sports melodrama. Most films about high school football players usually fall into one of two categories: glossy jock romance or locker-room sex farce. A high school footballer desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town.