Even Cruise can't capsize Cameron Crowe's entertaining romantic drama.
Jerry Maguire (1996)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:47
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
Genre: Comedies
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... 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, loyalty, and fairness. Unfortunately, Maguire's new moral compass costs him his job, and he is left to start his business anew with one work ally, agency accountant Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), and his least important client, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Maguire embarks on a journey of personal growth that forces him to reevaluate his life choices and ultimately leads him to both friendship and love. Like his earlier films, SAY ANYTHING and SINGLES, this award-winning Cameron Crowe film features snappy dialogue, comic relief, and the occasional tear-jerking moment. Stellar performances are turned in from Cruise, Zellweger, and Gooding, Jr., as well as supporting cast members Bonnie Hunt, Jay Mohr, Regina King, and Kelly Preston. [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jonathan Lipnicki
Starring: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Hunt, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell, Regina King, Drake Bell
Director: Cameron Crowe
Director: Cameron Crowe
Screenwriter: Cameron Crowe
Producer: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Composer: Nancy Wilson
Reviews for Jerry Maguire
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.
Lauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.
competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.
One of those tempting sugar confections you devour halfway through before recognizing the strange new taste sensations at the center.
Jerry Maguire ranks among the precious few films that manage to invoke the full spectrum of human emotion while appearing neither contrived nor insincere.
Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, and Cuba Gooding Jr. are salesmen, and we're consumers, buying emotional truth. That's a brave message for a commercial film to have. Too bad it's unintentional.
There are a couple of moments in Jerry Maguire when you want to hug yourself with delight.
One of the things I liked best about this movie is the quality of the women's characters.
Director Cameron Crowe nearly fumbles the ball with an overabundance of situations and subplots, but is rescued by the starpower of his actors.
Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.
It talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Or, in other words, it simply doesn't have heart.
You may come away from Jerry Maguire feeling a little dizzy, but once the film settles into afterthought, it provides plenty to think about.
It's not coincidental that writer-director Crowe (Singles,Say Anything...) is also in top form, creating a raft of sweetly believable characters and complex relationships.
Crowe deserves a pat on the back if not an Oscar nod for saying what everyone is thinking.
Gooding does his finest work since Boyz N the Hood, positively glowing with this character's mixture of engaging brassiness and (occasionally misdirected) energy.
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