Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Genre: Romantic Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger 
Running Time: 139 minutes

 


Jerry Maguire is a sports agents working for a big agency called SMI. One night, he gets an epiphany about his job and writes a mission statement that he distributes to everyone at the office. The document gets him fired, so Jerry Maguire starts his own business with one client, a brash football player called Rod Tidwell, and Dorothy Boyd, an employee at SMI who has a crush on him and felt bad that he got fired. Can Dorothy be more than an assistant to Jerry?

This film made quite a splash when it came out and became kind of a cult classic. It is loaded with material, maybe even a little too much, so it looses focus at times. There is a lot of sappiness too. The film’s saving grace is the acting performances given by all involved. The writer also struck gold with the amount of lines that became part of pop culture.

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