Taps (1981)
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Wikidata Q1213746, film, IMDb tt0083169, TMDB 10627: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Sean Penn as actor (The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame); 2 more episodes agree.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Big Picture
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Sean Penn: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (sliding doors):
Taps → Sean Penn.
In Taps Cruise has the Sean Penn-style edgy role he never played again, a different career he could have had.
“it's like a sliding doors moment for what kind of a career Tom Cruise could have had.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri, first at 0:58:50, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner, first at 1:46:37, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:30:20, 2 times
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan, first at 0:06:35, 1 time
- dismissed in The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame, first at 0:19:21, 4 times
What was said about it, by kind
unmapped (1)
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unmapped (sliding doors):
Taps → Sean Penn.
In Taps Cruise has the Sean Penn-style edgy role he never played again, a different career he could have had.
“it's like a sliding doors moment for what kind of a career Tom Cruise could have had.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Taps:
Sean rewatched Taps and found Cruise as the Sean Penn role: a brat who never plays that part again.
“He has the Sean Penn role in this.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:47:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Sean Penn: actor (The Big Picture, The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame)
- Timothy Hutton: lead (The Big Picture, The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame)
- Darryl Ponicsan: author of original story (The Big Picture, The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame)
- Harold Becker: director (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
- Harold Becker: director (The Rewatchables, ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)