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Top Gun

1986 · Movie · 105 min

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Scores

  • IMDb7.0/10as of 2026-04-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer59%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.9/10as of 2022-05-28
  • Metacritic50/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.

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At a glance

Genres
Action / Drama / Romance
Original language
English

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