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'The Color of Money' at 40: The Tom Cruise Film Outlasting 'Top Gun'

Original: ‘The Color of Money’ at 40: Why This Tom Cruise Movie Outshines ‘Top Gun’ in the Long Run

Martin Scorsese's 1986 pool-hall drama 'The Color of Money', starring Tom Cruise and Paul Newman, turns 40, prompting renewed commentary that the film has aged better than Cruise's blockbuster 'Top Gun'. The anniversary has writers revisiting Newman's Oscar-winning performance and the movie's influence on Cruise's career trajectory.

Why now: The film's 40th anniversary is prompting retrospectives comparing it favourably to more famous Tom Cruise movies.

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