Top Gun

[1986, Movie, PG, 110 mins]

Top Gun: Review

This paean to hotshot Navy fighter pilots and high technology attracted mass audiences despite its familiar plot and characters so vapid they vanish from memory as soon as the house lights come up. Brash young pilot Lt. Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise), nicknamed "Maverick" for his individualistic flying style, is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station, where he trains with the country's best fighter pilots. The best student from each class wins the prized "Top Gun" award, and the priv... read more

Top Gun: Cast & Details

Year: 1986
Rated PG

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Cast
Tom Cruise: Lt. Pete Mitchell
Anthony Edwards: Lt. Nick Bradshaw
Kelly McGillis: Charlotte Blackwood
Tom Skerritt: Cmdr. Mike Metcalf
Val Kilmer: Tom Kasanzky
Michael Ironside: Dick Wetherly

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Top Gun: TV Guide News

September 21, 2006: Awkward Hole in My Pajamas | 'Til Death | 9/22/2006
There was a comment left on last week's blog that it should be a requirement to be married to review this show. Well hey, I'm engaged so that will have to count for now. I can certainly relate to a diamond ring in the middle of a cantaloupe, though. I mean, I shoved it deep inside a watermelon when I proposed and that worked out well. OK, I'm just kidding about that ? it was actually a pineapple. Seriously though, most of you seem to think this show is crap. For some reason I think it's getting funnier. Maybe I'm demented (and maybe so are the four of you who said you liked it last week, too), but I think the five of us are right. This is really a quality comedy if you like lowbrow put-downs for 30 minutes. How about Eddie throwing the engagement ring at Joy? When she complains about the ring hitting her in the boob he compares it to "pitching softball to a slow kid." Ha. The way he proposed the first time around was better, though ? straight out of Top Gun when he asked her to... read more
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