In March 1983, Tom Cruise recieves his first moment of approval from a canon American filmmaker. He stars alongside an ensemble of other young talents in Franics Ford Coppola’s coming of age drama The Outsiders, based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. 

In this episode we discuss Coppola’s career, the overlapping themes of disenchanted youth across Cruise’s first movies, and more in his first significant film

Losin' It

An odyssey through the filmography of Tom Cruise, who more than any other actor has run the gamut of modern film, and through whom we can explore the past four decades of cinema.