Lauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.
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02/09/06
Jerry Maguire (1996)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 43 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus:
Anchored by dazzling performances from Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Renée Zellweger, as well as Cameron Crowe's tender direction, Jerry Maguire meshes romance and sports with panache.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Synopsis: What happens when a man tries to apply moral standards to his job in an industry of greed? He gets fired. Tom Cruise plays Jerry Maguire, a slick sports agent who realizes that he hates how he is living his life and encourages his fellow employees to get back to the important basics: people,... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Hunt
Director: Cameron Crowe
Screenwriter: Cameron Crowe
Producer: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Composer: Nancy Wilson
Screenwriter: Cameron Crowe
Producer: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Composer: Nancy Wilson
Reviews
Top Critic
Director Cameron Crowe has written and directed a deft, funny, shamelessly upbeat romantic comedy and to top it all drawn out the finest performance of Tom Cruise's career.
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03/31/07
Cruise seems to have grown as much as Jerry, for he brings gentleness, warmth and lightheartedness to this role, qualities that we haven't seen since he played air guitar in his underpants in Risky Business 13 years ago.
03/26/07
A meandering and deeply shallow tale of spiritual redemption, built around the Teflon persona of Tom Cruise and driven by the conviction that all emotions worth expressing can be summed up in pop songs.
03/26/07
Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.
07/22/06
Disarming acting, colorful writing and true generosity of spirit keep it right on track.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Funny and warmhearted, this romantic comedy has it all: a gentle love story, crackling dialogue, social satire and uplifting themes.
05/20/03
Sports-agent epic about humanity in the face of commercialism still stands as Cruise's and Crowe's best work.
11/07/02
One of the things I liked best about this movie is the quality of the women's characters.
10/15/02
It has a lot of charm and it's smarter than most Hollywood movies. It's terrific entertainment.
09/10/02
An engaging and full-tilt movie about how attention enhances both love and work.
05/08/02
Crowe deserves a pat on the back if not an Oscar nod for saying what everyone is thinking.
04/17/02
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