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Jerry Maguire (1996)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 9

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.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 2

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.

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Movie Info

Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him. But it begins to dawn on Jerry that there's something wrong with what he's doing, and not long after a troubling encounter with the son of an injured

R, 2 hr. 19 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Cameron Crowe

Jun 24, 1997

TriStar Pictures

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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (9) | DVD (27)

Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe's shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles...

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace -- an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent, in their relationships.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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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.

March 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Disarming acting, colorful writing and true generosity of spirit keep it right on track.

May 20, 2003 Comment
New York Times
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There's much to admire in Jerry Maguire, except Jerry Maguire.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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This is a wholly unexpected film, as heady and surprising in its humor as in its emotional texture.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy is well acted by Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. (in an Oscar-winning turn), but as a tale of redemption, the movie is not too deep and goes out of its way to satisfy viewers' expectations of a happy ending.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

competently made parallel plotted film whose buddy sports film elements outshine its rom-com aspects.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Tom Cruise is in top form playing Jerry Maguire, a slick sports agent with a heart.

February 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A romantic comedy with attitude . . . and more laughs than a beer commercial.

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Even Cruise can't capsize Cameron Crowe's entertaining romantic drama.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Feel-good Cruise flick; racier than you remember.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

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.

March 26, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

"Jerry Maguire" doesn't stop until it shows you the quan.

October 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | Comment
Arizona Daily Star

Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.

July 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Lauded as a witty moral fable with a revelatory performance from its star, this romantic comedy is in fact meretricious, manipulative and reactionary.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Both sides of the story, the sports and the romance, mesh well.

September 11, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Tom Cruise give his best performance yet.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

Exceptional.

October 29, 2003 Full Review | Comment
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Funny and warmhearted, this romantic comedy has it all: a gentle love story, crackling dialogue, social satire and uplifting themes.

May 20, 2003 Comment
Palo Alto Weekly
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Audience Reviews for Jerry Maguire

Having Humour, Romance, Drama and Sports all wrapped up into one breathtaking film, has never been established any better than the way that "Jerry Maguire" does it. Tom Cruise plays a business working in the sports industry. Once he finds himself in a rut, not sleeping and not gaining specific revenue, he quits his job

January 13, 2010
KJ Proulx

Super Reviewer

Tom Cruise was great as always in this movie where he played a sports agent for the NFL. Safe to say,Tom Cruise never seizes to amaze me!!! This movie definetly deserves 5 stars!!! I loved Renee, Bonnie and Cuba as well!!! :) <3 :) I just love it!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

February 19, 2008
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Cassie Hill

Super Reviewer

    1. Jerry Maguire: FINE!
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    1. Rod Tidwell: Jerry Maguire, my agent. You're my ambassador of Kwan.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (2 months ago)
    1. Jerry Maguire: I love you. You complete me.
    – Submitted by Guido M (3 months ago)
    1. Jerry Maguire: I couldn't escape the simple thought that I hated myself... no, I hated my place in the world.
    – Submitted by Justin K (3 months ago)
    1. Dorothy Boyd: Stop... just stop. You had me at hello.
    – Submitted by Justin K (3 months ago)

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