Tom Cruise has revealed he landed his role in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man after a chance encounter inside a London ...

Tom Cruise has revealed the story of how he landed his role opposite Dustin Hoffman in 1988’s Rain Man.

Tom Cruise revealed that his sister helped him land a lead role in the 1988 movie Rain Man. While speaking at a BFI event in ...

The Hollywood star credits his sister for pushing him to speak to Hoffman, leading to his breakout dramatic role.

"Look, if you don’t do it I’m going to go over there and tell him who you are," Tom Cruise recalled ... a year later he sent me Rain Man." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free ...

The first performance that earned Cruise an Oscar nomination was 1989’s Born of the Fourth of July, where he played the ...

Tom Cruise's sister Cass helped him get his ... no ma’am. . . And basically a year later he sent me Rain Man." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up ...

“I saw this show, Comic Book Men? They just sit around and talk about comic books ... but now you’d have to be Tom Cruise to get something like that to work. Hell, that was the case 40 years ago, too.

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