"Top Gun," a triumphant all-American pre-"woke" Hollywood movie classic, was released on this day in history, May 16, 1986. Patriotic and sexy, if somewhat predictable, the action-romance placed cocky young U.S.
Navy pilots in a "Danger Zone" of love and Cold War combat. It roared across the American landscape like an F-14 strafing pop culture with one memorable explosion after another. "When ‘Top Gun’hit the box office in 1986, it quickly rose to the top of the charts, drawing a great deal of attention to the film and the cast," MovieWeb.com wrote in a 2022 retrospective of the silver-screen sensation. "The film became an instant classic thanks to the award-winning soundtrack and some of the best aerial scenes to ever hit the big screen." "Top Gun" was the top-grossing movie of 1986 by a wide margin.
It made upstart 23-year-old actor Tom Cruise one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and produced a No. 1 soundtrack featuring top acts of the 1980s, including Kenny Loggins, Cheap Trick and Loverboy.
Kelly McGillis played Charlie, the blonde bombshell instructor at the Navy’s elite "Top Gun" flight school and, of course, Cruise’s love interest.
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