Jack Reacher

film by McQuarrie [2012]

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The 2012 film Jack Reacher, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, stars Tom Cruise as the titular character. Reacher is a former U.S. Army investigator. The movie is an action thriller based on Lee Child's novel of the same name. Cruise reprised the role in the 2016 sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.12

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Tom Cruise
Later career
…Knight and Day (2010) and Jack Reacher (2012). In the latter he played a former U.S. Army investigator, a role he reprised in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). After appearing as a 1980s rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012), he was cast as an apocalypse survivor…
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…Knight and Day (2010) and Jack Reacher (2012). In the latter he played a former U.S. Army investigator, a role he reprised in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). After appearing as a 1980s rock idol in the musical Rock of Ages (2012), he was cast as an apocalypse survivor…
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Robert Duvall
Later films
…owner in the action movie Jack Reacher (2012), and a judge accused of vehicular homicide in The Judge (2014). Duvall received his fourth Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for the latter role.
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…owner in the action movie Jack Reacher (2012), and a judge accused of vehicular homicide in The Judge (2014). Duvall received his fourth Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for the latter role.
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Werner Herzog
…in the big-budget action movie Jack Reacher (2012). He also lent his voice to various movies, notably the animated comedy Penguins of Madagascar (2014).
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…in the big-budget action movie Jack Reacher (2012). He also lent his voice to various movies, notably the animated comedy Penguins of Madagascar (2014).
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