Unfortunately, Mr. Cruise's character was also sleazy, at least while under the influence of his cynical mentor, played by Bryan Brown.
"Silence" stars Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver as 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor, played by Liam Neeson.
And there's Borg/Lennart Bergelin, the coach and mentor played by Stellan Skårsgard with a perpetual look of priestly sorrow.
Django, played brilliantly by Jamie Foxx, and King Schultz, his white bounty-hunter mentor — played by an equally adroit Christoph Waltz — are on a mission to rescue Hildy (Kerry Washington), the enslaved woman Django loves.
In the comedy, which was based on a novel by Nick Hornby, he portrayed a nerdy child with "Vulcan" eyebrows who is taken under the wing of an unlikely mentor (played by Hugh Grant).
Snappish and shaken by feelings he can barely express, the psychotherapist is so flummoxed he sometimes turns on Gina, his own therapist and former mentor, played with a mix of compassion and censure by Dianne Wiest.
Thanks to a mentor played by Oliver Platt, he learns how to bribe doctors and sweet-talk receptionists as he heaves his suitcase of samples around Pittsburgh, but all his cocksure charm can't help him shift Pfizer's anti-depressant drug, Zoloft – the Ask Jeeves to Prozac's Google.
And therefore the kind of role that a mentor plays within the group will be different for each person.
Thinking back to his early days as a student at a New Hampshire high school, he recalls a turning point and the role a mentor played.
We see them begin the process of becoming gigolos, like taking on a gigolo mentor played by Peter Gallagher.
