Bvisa mazita emafirimu enyambo ayo Cage akaita mairi. Vaparadzanise nekoma.
Context:Cage akaita mutambo wake wekutanga mumutambo weterevhizheni wa1981 The Best of Times, iyo isina kumbobvira yatorwa neABC. Kutanga kwake kwemufirimu kwakatevera muna 1982, aine chinzvimbo chidiki semushandi asingazivikanwe weMutongi Reinhold's hunhu mune iri kuuya-zera firimu Fast Times kuRidgemont High, mushure mekunge atanga kuyedza chikamu chaReinhold. Chiitiko chake pafirimu chakakanganiswa nenhengo dzevatambi dzisingaperi dzichidzokorora mafirimu ambuya vake, izvo zvakamukurudzira kuchinja zita rake. Basa rekutanga raCage rakauya achipesana naDeborah Foreman mumutambo wekudanana weValley Girl (1983), kwaakatamba punk uyo anowira murudo nemusikana wemupata, zano rakafuridzirwa naRomeo naJuliet. Iyi firimu yakabudirira zvishoma pamabhokisi emahofisi uye yakaratidzwa sechinhu chinoremekedzwa. Akaita audition nokuda kwebasa raDallas Winston mufirimu rababamunini vake The Outsiders, yakavakirwa pabhuku raS.E. Hinton, asi akarasikirwa naMatt Dillon. Cage, zvisinei, aizoita co-star muCoppola's kuchinjika kweimwe novel yaHinton, Rumble Fish, mugore iroro.  Muna 1984, Cage akaonekwa mumafirimu matatu enguva, hapana kana rimwe rawo rakabudirira pabhokisi hofisi. Mumutambo, Racing with the Moon (1984), Cage akaratidzira Sean Penn seshamwari dzakamirira kutumirwa kuU.S. Marine Corps. Mutambo wematsotsi waCoppola weThe Cotton Club wakamuona achitamba shanduro yakanyorwa yemuurayi wemhomho Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, achiwana kurumbidzwa kubva kumutsoropodzi Paul Attanasio nokuda kwe "kushandiswa [kune] nguva dzake shomanana kuti aratidze mutambi ane simba, ane chisimba". Kusunungurwa kwake kwokupedzisira kwegore raiva mutambo waAlan Parker Birdy, umo akabata nyeredzi naMatthew Modine seshamwari mbiri dzepedyo uye kushungurudzika kwavo kwakakonzerwa nekushumira muHondo yeVietnam. Cage akarerutsa uremu nokuda kwebasa racho uye akaita kuti mazino ake maviri epamberi abviswe kuti aoneke akaremara. Pasinei nokusaita zvakanaka pamabhokisi emahofisi, firimu racho, uye zvinoitwa naCage naModine, zvakagamuchira kuongororwa kwakanaka, nemutsoropodzi weThe New York Times Janet Maslin achinyora, "Mr. Cage anonzwira tsitsi zvikuru kukurumidza kwaAl uye kushungurudzika. Pamwe chete, vatambi ava vanoita zvishamiso nezvinhu zvingadai zvisina kutamba".  Muna 1986, Cage akaita nyeredzi mumutambo wenhabvu weCanada wakaratidzwa zvishoma The Boy in Blue uye fantasy comedy yababamunini vake Peggy Sue Akaroora (1987) semurume kumunhu waKathleen Turner, uyo akafamba munguva kudzokera kumazuva avo echikoro chesekondari. Akabva atamba mumutambo wematsotsi wehama dzaCoen Raising Arizona (1987) semunhu akapusa aimbova mujeri. Kubudirira kukuru kwaCage kwakauya muna 1987 nemutambo werudo weMoonstruck, umo akabata nyeredzi padivi paCher semubiki ane hasha uyo anowira murudo nemukomana wehanzvadzi yake akafirwa. Firimu racho rakabudirira zvikuru nevatsoropodzi uye vateereri zvakafanana, zvichiita kuti Cage apiwe zita reGolden Globe reMutambi Akanakisisa <unk> Motion Picture Musical kana Comedy Mune ongororo yake yekudzokorora, Roger Ebert akanyora kuti ainzwa kuita kwaCage kwakakodzera Oscar.
Musikana weMupata, Peggy Sue Akaroorwa, Kurera Arizona, Moonstruck