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"Although recent developments in Tom Cruise&amp;#039;s personal life might mean his 50th birthday celebration is somewhat muted, we&amp;#039;d like to honour the movie star and celebrate his contribution to modern cinema. Born on July 3, 1962 - one day shy from bizarrely echoing the title of his movie with Oliver Stone - Cruise has dazzled audiences for three decades, as shown by the selection of career highlights below.  Sadly we couldn&amp;#039;t even manage to squeeze in any pool playing from The Color of Money, orgy ogling from Eyes Wide Shut, drink disseminating from Cocktail or skyscraper sprinting from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, but we did our best to represent his most memorable moments... Household Dancing - Risky Business Tom Cruise doesn&amp;#039;t need Oprah Winfrey&amp;#039;s presence to go mental on a sofa! This iconic household dancing to Bob Seger&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Old Time Rock And Roll&amp;#039; helped the fledging actor to make a big impression as an aspiring pimp in 1983&amp;#039;s Risky Business.       &amp;quot;I will massacre you!&amp;quot; - Tropic Thunder In a sweary rant that would make even Christian Bale weep, Tropic Thunder&amp;#039;s volatile studio boss Les Grossman owns the entire Flaming Dragon gang after they demand a ransom for the return of Ben Stiller&amp;#039;s movie star Tugg Speedman. The hip-hop loving movie mogul with a fondness for colourful language could well return in his own spinoff flick!       &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;ve Lost That Loving Feeling&amp;#039; - Top Gun Maverick&amp;#039;s legendary pulling routine in Top Gun, with wingman Goose in tow, shows what can be achieved with the strategic deployment of a Righteous Brothers song. The 1986 movie&amp;#039;s closing scene also harks back to this pivotal moment, which has undoubtedly inspired many drunken (and fruitful) homages in various seedy nightspots across the globe.      Seduce and Destroy - Magnolia &amp;quot;Respect the xxxx and tame the xxxx!&amp;quot; Tom Cruise shed his big screen &amp;#039;golden boy&amp;#039; image to great effect in Paul Thomas Anderson&amp;#039;s masterpiece Magnolia, playing misogynistic motivational speaker and entrepreneur Frank TJ Mackey. His first appearance on stage, which uses the aforementioned highly censored quote, is utterly mesmerising - but with this being a family-friendly website, here&amp;#039;s a clip of Mackey&amp;#039;s brilliant infomercial...      &amp;quot;I want THE TRUTH!&amp;quot; - A Few Good Men What happens when Tom Cruise&amp;#039;s rookie lawyer shouts at Jack Nicholson&amp;#039;s dogged Colonel in the famous courtroom scene from A Few Good Men? It can only be a &amp;#039;hairdryer&amp;#039; treatment that Sir Alex Ferguson would be proud of, with Cruise donning an expression that looks like a boy who has just wet himself but is too scared to tell his mother. Yet Tom gets his man in the end...      &amp;quot;You complete me&amp;quot; - Jerry Maguire Cameron Crowe&amp;#039;s 1996 movie is packed full of great moments from The Cruise, but there are enough frenzied performances on this list so we&amp;#039;ll bypass the goldfish-nabbing office exit and &amp;quot;show me the money&amp;quot; hysterics and go for this tender moment. This sweet scene between sports agent Jerry and his love interest Dorothy is not for those of a weepy disposition...      The Metro Showdown - Collateral Regardless of the role, you still think that any Tom Cruise character (no matter how nasty) will still remain standing at the end. So the demise of his silver-haired hitman Vincent at the hands of Jamie Foxx&amp;#039;s cabbie in Collateral came as a shock. Vincent&amp;#039;s calm realisation that his life is over, reciting an earlier anecdote about a dead man who went unnoticed on a train, is powerfully understated.      The Vault Sequence - Mission: Impossible Admittedly, all Tom Cruise does in this scene as Ethan Hunt is dangle upside down without saying a word. Yet it is one of the most copied and parodied sequences in modern cinema, with Brian De Palma&amp;#039;s direction ramping up the tension in simple but highly effective style in this standout moment from the 1996 reboot of the classic TV series.      The Casino Visit - Rain Man This celebrated sequence from the Oscar-winning Rain Man features Cruise&amp;#039;s car dealer Charlie realising that his recently-unearthed autistic brother Raymond has immense mathematical skills and recall. Before he can scream &amp;quot;show me the money&amp;quot;, the pair are in the casino in a fun yet concurrently unnerving scene.      Times Square - Vanilla Sky &amp;quot;Open your eyes.&amp;quot; The surreal imagery at the beginning of Cameron Crowe&amp;#039;s 2001 remake bombarded the senses and set the tone for what ensued. This impressive sequence features The Cruise channeling Nicolas Cage as he flips out and screams after a quick dash around a deserted Times Square. Perhaps the scream he lets out is frustration at being unable to figure out Vanilla Sky&amp;#039;s ambiguous ending?      Which Tom Cruise movie moments are your favourite? Leave your comments in the space below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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