When you look at the filmography of Cameron Crowe, it’s pretty incredible just to see which iconic films he has either written, directed, or both. “Say Anything,” “Singles,” “Almost Famous,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” are all from Crowe. And let’s not forget the incredible, Oscar snub that is “Aloha.” Oh wait, maybe we should forget that one.

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As many filmmakers will tell you, it’s hard to tell if a movie works until an audience sees it, but as Cameron Crowe recently reflected about “Jerry Maguire,” he knew he had something special when lives were literally changed during a screening.

“…one of the first times we showed it was a friends and family screening that [producer] Jim [L. Brooks] had put together.

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While this weekend’s “Knight & Day” is on the early track towards being a bomb (or at least to be totally fair, it’s underwhelmed so far) and is surely not Tom Cruise’s finest work by a long shot (though it does have its charms), the picture does remind us that the while an international star, the consistently maligned actor (perhaps for his personal Xenu beliefs and pitbull-like handlers) is a) a much better, harder working actor then he is generally given credit for and b) generally a much more compelling one when he’s taking roles that subvert his all-American, good-looking hero mien (now if only James Mangold’s action comedy would have stuck to its guns and let Cruise stick to his insane character for the entire film instead of copping out midway through).

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THR: “Jonathan Lipnicki plans to star in the psychological thriller “The Other Side of Innocence,” which Dev-O-Ron Pictures is offering at the American Film Market.

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