All the Right Moves is a 1983 American sports drama film directed by Michael Chapman, and starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn and Gary Graham.

Stefen "Stef" Djordjevic is a Serbian American high school defensive back who is gifted in sports and is a B student academically.

He is seeking a college football scholarship to escape the economically depressed small Western Pennsylvania town of Ampipe and a dead-end job and life working at the mill, just like his grandfather, father, and his brother Greg.

Stefen gets in an argument with Lisa, and his best friend Brian declines a scholarship offer to USC and plans to marry his pregnant girlfriend.

The website's consensus reads, "All the Right Moves is an uncommonly grim coming-of-age drama that overcomes numerous clichés with its realistic approach to its characters and setting.

[13] Jay Carr from The Boston Globe stated "Cruise is believable as an athlete,"[citation needed] and Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "a well-made but sugar-coated working-class fable about a football star.

[17] Among the unfavorable reviews, TV Guide called the movie "cliché-riddled" and criticized director Michael Chapman for not taking any risks.