72nd Annual Academy Awards . Yep, you noticed correctly. Nine of the actors and actresses who starred in Boogie Nights return for this third Anderson-directed feature film. Though it was once reported that his role was fairly short, the word from the screening is that it is more like 45 minutes worth.
Cruise plays an infomercial self-help guru offering sexual advice for other men.
The only star he worked with, however, was William H. Macy. The scene he said they were working on sounded totally bizarre. It entailed a rainstorm where it was raining. . . Don't ask me. He didn't even know why.