Anyone who has seen Tom Cruise jump on Oprah Winfreyâ??s couch knows he can be a bit of a kook. That impression is amplified, to put it gently, by Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, a new documentary by Alex Gibney, who won an Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side.
Cruise is one of those who emerges from this the worst; Gibneyâ??s film makes the claim that the actorâ??s reluctance to distance himself from the faith was the key factor in his split with Nicole Kidman. Footage of Cruise from official church events and video is chopped and spliced to put him in as dubious a light as possible; the film also accuses him of using Scientologist workers paid 40 cents an hour to trick out his cars and houses.
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