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Jerry Maguire

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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

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  • Tom Cruise gives his best performance to date (Neil Rosen, NY-1) as a sports agent who suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, JERRY MAGUIRE learns that loving well is the best revenge. A sweetheart of a romantic comedy (Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE) co-starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renee Zellweger, Regina King and Bonnie Hunt.
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    Reviews for Jerry Maguire

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    Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Boston Phoenix

    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.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    03/26/07
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Disingenuous

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    04/22/02
    Bill Chambers
    Bill Chambers
    Film Freak Central

    It talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Or, in other words, it simply doesn't have heart.

    Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Chris Hicks
    Chris Hicks
    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    Jerry Maguire is slick but not quite believable.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    G. Allen Johnson
    G. Allen Johnson
    San Francisco Examiner

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

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    02/09/06
    Geoff Andrew
    Geoff Andrew
    Time Out

    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.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    I just couldn't buy into the redemption of Jerry Maguire.

    Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Marty Mapes
    Marty Mapes
    Movie Habit

    There's much to admire in Jerry Maguire, except Jerry Maguire.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    04/12/02
    Rick Groen
    Rick Groen
    Globe and Mail

    Jerry Maguire is, ultimately, a failed idealism.

    Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Ted Prigge
    Ted Prigge
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    Even Cruise can't capsize Cameron Crowe's entertaining romantic drama.

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    07/31/08
    Channel 4 Film

    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.

    Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    E! Online

    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.

    Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Adam Smith
    Adam Smith
    Empire Magazine

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

    Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
    07/02/09
    Dan Jardine
    Dan Jardine
    Apollo Guide

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

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    02/07/09
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Cruise is at the top of his form, and Gooding makes a brilliant opponent.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Desson Thomson
    Desson Thomson
    Washington Post
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    Exceptional.

    Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
    10/29/03
    Dragan Antulov
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    The combination of Crowe's exceptional script and the superior cast, highlighted by Cruise's flawless performance, results in one of the years most substantial movies.

    Full Review Source: NUVO Newsweekly | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Edward Johnson-Ott
    Edward Johnson-Ott
    NUVO Newsweekly

    An engaging and full-tilt movie about how attention enhances both love and work.

    Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
    05/08/02
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Spirituality and Practice

    This is the kind of movie that reminds me why I started reviewing in the first place.

    Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    James Berardinelli
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