A dynamic performance by Tom Cruise fuels this drama of a high school football star who sees a college scholarship as his only chance of leaving the impoverished steel mill town he calls home. With Lea Thompson, Chris Penn, Craig T. Nelson (playing, of all things, Cruise's coach). 90 min.

Can two attractive, single women find fulfillment through meaningless relationships in the age of "the new monogamy"? Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson try to find out in a comedic look at romance in the '80s; with Andrew Dice Clay, Mary Gross. 87 min.