Tom Cruise Timeline

1983 Mar 25 "The Outsiders" is released
The Outsiders is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The movie was released in March 1983. Jo El...
1983 Aug 5 "Risky Business" Is Released
Risky Business is a 1983 comedy-drama film written by Paul Brickman in his directorial debut. It is best known for being the film that launched Tom Cruise to stardom. The film also sta...
1986 May 16 Top Gun released
Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and...
1986 Oct 17 The Color of Money is Released
The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from The Hustler (1959). The book was very loosely adapted into a 19...
1988 Dec 16 "Rain Man" Is Released
Rain Man is a 1988 comedy-drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that ...
1989 Dec 20 "Born On The Fourth Of July" Is Released
Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that ear...
1996 May 22 Mission: Impossible (film) released
Mission: Impossible is an 1996 thriller directed by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The plot follows Hunt's (Tom Cruise) mission to uncover the mole within the CIA who ...
1996 Dec 13 Jerry Maguire is Released
Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a 35 year old sports agent working f...
2000 May 24 Mission: Impossible II released
Mission: Impossible II (also known as M:I-2) is a 2000 film directed by John Woo, and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer. It is a sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 ...
2006 May 5 Mission: Impossible III released
Mission: Impossible III (also known as M:I:III) a 2006 action film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IM...