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Jerry Maguire (1996)
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13 December 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared. morePlot:
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 21 wins & 18 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(108 articles)
Cruise sails away from Holmes in Aus (From digitalspy. 9 July 2009, 9:33 AM, PDT)
Preston To Take Centre Stage At Grief & Resilience Panel
(From WENN. 8 July 2009, 6:26 PM, PDT)
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Successful multi genre moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tom Cruise | ... | Jerry Maguire | |
| Cuba Gooding Jr. | ... | Rod Tidwell | |
| Renée Zellweger | ... | Dorothy Boyd (as Renee Zellweger) | |
| Kelly Preston | ... | Avery Bishop | |
| Jerry O'Connell | ... | Frank Cushman | |
| Jay Mohr | ... | Bob Sugar | |
| Bonnie Hunt | ... | Laurel, Dorothy's sister | |
| Regina King | ... | Marcee Tidwell | |
| Jonathan Lipnicki | ... | Ray Boyd | |
| Todd Louiso | ... | Chad the Nanny | |
| Mark Pellington | ... | Bill Dooler | |
| Jeremy Suarez | ... | Tyson Tidwell | |
| Jared Jussim | ... | Dicky Fox | |
| Benjamin Kimball Smith | ... | Keith Cushman | |
| Ingrid Beer | ... | Anne-Louise |
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Rated R for language and sexuality.Parents Guide:
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139 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | France:Unrated | Iceland:L | USA:R (certificate #34799) | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | South Korea:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Austria:6 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:6 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Spain:7 | Sweden:7 | UK:15Fun Stuff
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Cameron Crowe offered the Dorothy Boyd role to Janeane Garofalo, if she could lose weight, but after trimming down, she learned that Renée Zellweger had won the part instead in what was to become a career-launching smash hit. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Jerry and Dorothy are leaving for their dinner date, she has her heels on when her sister stops her to talk. She then runs to Jerry to the middle of the street and her heels are in her hands. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Jerry Maguire: So this is the world, and there are almost six billion people on it. When I was a kid, there were three. It's hard to keep up.
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This movie is a comedy, drama, romance, sports movie, and a money movie (e.g. Wall Street, where the main character is trying to make a lot of money). The problem such a movie faces is maintaining a consistent tone. Remember Prizzi's Honor? JM solves that problem by using restraint. It doesn't go over the top, although its characters sometimes do. It has funny moments, but it's not Animal House or American Pie. It's a drama, but it keeps the stakes low. This isn't Armageddon: they aren't trying to save the world. There are no life or death decisions. The romantic stakes aren't that high either: Renee Zellweger loves Tom Cruise, but she's been in love before and if this doesn't work out, she will be again. The only really high stakes are the money. By keeping the stakes low, JM let's us watch it with a bit of detachment.
This is more of a drama than a comedy. A good test is whether the characters change. Here, Tom Cruise starts off completely cynical, abruptly changes to ridiculously idealistic, then spends the rest of the movie finding the right balance. Renee Zellweger starts by loving Tom Cruise from afar, then gets him, then has to work out her ambiguous feelings.
JM is fun to watch. The characters, though flawed, are sympathetic. We enjoy watching them succeed, fail (sometimes in funny ways), and try to discover what they really care about. It's complicated, thoughtful, and surprisingly subtle.