Tom Cruise was in a romance film.
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Heywood Gould , whose screenplay was based on his book of the same name . Tom Cruise . Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete `` Maverick '' Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun ( 1986 ) . Top Gun is a 1986 American romantic military action drama film directed by Tony Scott , and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , in association with Paramount Pictures . Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed , written , and co-produced by Cameron Crowe .