Round 6: Tossup 5

Several songs from this film’s soundtrack, including one inspired by Steve Reich’s (“ryshe’s”) Music for 18 Musicians, are featured on the deluxe edition of the album Hyperborea. This film’s director was forced to replace its original ending, in which the two leads hug in a skyscraper restaurant as the star remarks “isn’t life grand?”, with a scene in which he instead wryly says “time of your life, huh kid?” Leaves fly through a doorway in a scene in which this film’s lead is asked “are you ready for me, Ralph?” In this film by Paul (*) Brickman, “In the Air Tonight” plays in the lead-up to a sex scene on a train set to the lead theme from its score by Tangerine Dream. In a room containing his mother’s Steuben glass egg, this film’s lead dances to “Old Time Rock (10[1])and Roll” in a pink shirt and underwear. (10[1])For 10 points, what 1983 teen film was the breakthrough role for Tom Cruise? ■END■

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