A Few Good Men, 1992

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!

Cuba Gooding Jr--Christopher Guest

Director: Rob Reiner

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Keifer Sutherland

A naval courtroom drama. I found it cool because it is the Navy and Marines and such, and I love NCIS, and other military shows.

A young marine dies after a couple of guys in his unit discipline him for not keeping up and for slowing everyone down. Lawyers Lt. Commander Joanne Galloway (Moore) and hot-shot Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Cruise) are hired to defend the marines, and look into the matter. They soon there is more to this situation than meets the eye.

Okay, the story is that simple, and I don't mean to make it sound boring- it's really great! I liked it a lot!

This is worth watching simply for the drills they do in the beginning. It's like a military Riverdance- I know that sounds dorky, but it's totally rad.

Jerry Maguire, 1996

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!

Tom Cruise-- Cuba Gooding Jr

Director: Cameron Crowe

Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renee Zellweger, Jonathan Lipnicki

Jerry Maquire (Cruise), a sports agent working for a large sports management company, has an epiphany about how the business should be (honest, for example), and writes a mission statement to share his thoughts with his co-workers. His co-workers are inspired by it, but when he gets fired the next day, and leaves to start his own company, only one person is willing to join him. Dorothy Boyd (Zellweger) is a single mom with a son named Ray (Lipnicki), who thinks she may have just a made the biggest mistake of her life, leaving her stable job and following Jerry into the unknown.

Overall, it's an all right movie. I really like the music!

Far and Away, 1992

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!!

Colm Meaney- Tom Cruise

Director: Ron Howard

Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Colm Meaney, Thomas Gibson, Barbara Babcock

After his father dies and his home burns to the ground, Joseph (Cruise) leaves Ireland when he hears of the land in America that's being given away by the government. His landlord's feisty daughter Shannon (Kidman) has decided to run away from home, and she finances their trip, in exchange for his help getting there.

When they arrive, circumstances don't allow her to go on right away, so they get a room together pretending to be brother and sister, and work and save to get there. Joseph boxes and works at the factory with Shannon. His talent in the ring makes him forget his humble beginnings, and gets them both in trouble.

I don't want to give anything away! I'm sorry, but I LOVE this movie!!!!! It may be cheesy, but it's still great!

I especially love the music. It always gets stuck in my head.