>>One example of this is Tom Cruise, whom I can't stand for that (and his Bosnian counterpart, Toma Kuruzović, for the same reason). Except in Minority Report, where the director managed to make him do some work.
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>>May it also be noted that the role of Himself was played successfully by many dilettantes, in various movies (it's actually a different role each time, why do they keep giving it the same name - maybe it's another Alan Smithee of a kind?).
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>Tom Cruise was different in Magnolia.

I actually saw Minority report because I didn't know it was him, and didn't even recognize him over the first fifteen minutes (kudos to the director, again) :).

Which means I didn't see Magnolia.