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Jerry Maguire

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Jerry Maguire (1996)

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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. 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. more
 
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]
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. [Less]

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

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Release:

Oct 10, 2006

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03/31/07 04:58 AM
Washington Post
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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.

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03/26/07 06:54 PM
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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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.

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03/26/07 06:53 PM
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"Jerry Maguire" doesn't stop until it shows you the quan.

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10/15/06 09:16 AM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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Surely the film could have been shorter, but this unabashed Hollywood exercise tricked me into liking it.

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07/22/06 04:27 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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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 03:16 AM
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Both sides of the story, the sports and the romance, mesh well.

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09/11/05 10:20 PM
Michael Dequina
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Tom Cruise give his best performance yet.

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04/09/05 03:27 AM
Robin Clifford
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Exceptional.

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10/29/03 12:08 PM
Dragan Antulov
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Disarming acting, colorful writing and true generosity of spirit keep it right on track.

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05/20/03 05:06 PM
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Funny and warmhearted, this romantic comedy has it all: a gentle love story, crackling dialogue, social satire and uplifting themes.

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05/20/03 05:06 PM
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly
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Sports-agent epic about humanity in the face of commercialism still stands as Cruise's and Crowe's best work.

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11/07/02 01:24 PM
James Rocchi
Netflix
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One of the things I liked best about this movie is the quality of the women's characters.

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10/15/02 08:08 AM
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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It has a lot of charm and it's smarter than most Hollywood movies. It's terrific entertainment.

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09/10/02 08:08 AM
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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An engaging and full-tilt movie about how attention enhances both love and work.

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05/08/02 04:30 AM
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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This is one of my favorite movies of all-time.

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04/24/02 08:06 AM
JoBlo
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Disingenuous

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04/22/02 11:01 PM
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central
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Crowe deserves a pat on the back if not an Oscar nod for saying what everyone is thinking.

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04/17/02 08:06 AM
Leslie Rigoulot
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There's much to admire in Jerry Maguire, except Jerry Maguire.

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04/12/02 08:06 AM
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Crowe is an extremely gifted writer who has a keen understanding of his characters.

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02/27/01 07:22 PM
James Kendrick
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