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TOP GUN MAVERICK

an you believe it’s been 34 years since we first saw Tom Cruise catapult off a carrier deck and up into the danger zone as Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in ? That jet-propelled ode to air-to-air combat in the jet age is without question one of the most iconic films of the 1980s—so

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