Updated, with additional reaction: Liz Cheney’s new book is a scathing portrait of Republican “enablers and collaborators” who are responsible for the continued hold that Donald Trump has on the party, CNN reported on Tuesday.
With Cheney’s Oath and Honor set to be published next week, CNN Jamie Gangel obtained an advance copy and described it as an “unflinching” look at her former GOP colleagues. Cheney was ousted from Republican leadership as she continued to criticize Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
“You get personal conversations, Republican meetings,” Gangel said on Jake Tapper’s The Lead, adding that Cheney recounts being on a Trump surrogates call on Jan. 4, 2021 in which she hears “the stark specific planning” for January 6th.
On that date, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney recounts being in the GOP House cloakroom and members were asked to sign...
With Cheney’s Oath and Honor set to be published next week, CNN Jamie Gangel obtained an advance copy and described it as an “unflinching” look at her former GOP colleagues. Cheney was ousted from Republican leadership as she continued to criticize Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
“You get personal conversations, Republican meetings,” Gangel said on Jake Tapper’s The Lead, adding that Cheney recounts being on a Trump surrogates call on Jan. 4, 2021 in which she hears “the stark specific planning” for January 6th.
On that date, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney recounts being in the GOP House cloakroom and members were asked to sign...
- 11/29/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite acting credits ranging from “Severance” to “True Romance” to “Boyhood” and “Medium,” actor Patricia Arquette said she’s “a notoriously bad auditioner,” which led her to lose out on the 1996 comedy “Jerry Maguire.”
“Everyone was saying, ‘Oh, this is just a formality, you’re gonna read with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ but this is your part, you got it,’ and I blew it,” the actor told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin at the SAG Awards red carpet on Sunday.
Renée Zellweger ended up booking the role of Dorothy Boyd in the film, to which Arquette added, “I actually think she was better for it, and she was great.”
The film depicts a sports agent getting fired for expressing his moral epiphany and subsequently using his new philosophy with his one remaining client as an independent agent. The film received several awards and was Oscar-nominated for best picture,...
“Everyone was saying, ‘Oh, this is just a formality, you’re gonna read with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ but this is your part, you got it,’ and I blew it,” the actor told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin at the SAG Awards red carpet on Sunday.
Renée Zellweger ended up booking the role of Dorothy Boyd in the film, to which Arquette added, “I actually think she was better for it, and she was great.”
The film depicts a sports agent getting fired for expressing his moral epiphany and subsequently using his new philosophy with his one remaining client as an independent agent. The film received several awards and was Oscar-nominated for best picture,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Julia MacCary and Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
MSNBC’s Brian Williams Invokes ‘Jerry Maguire’ In Mocking Kevin McCarthy’s Meeting With Donald Trump
When MSNBC’s Brian Williams promised “exclusive video” of the meeting between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and former President Donald Trump, the result was a clip from Jerry Maguire.
The scene was a famous one. “You complete me,” Maguire, played by Tom Cruise, tells Dorothy Boyd, played by Renee Zellweger.
“You had me at hello,” she responds.
After the clip played, Williams’ guest, Baratunde Thurston, chuckled and another guest, Bill Kristol, smiled and shook his head.
“Obviously we have rolled the wrong clip and we were sold a bill of goods here,” Williams said.
The clip took off on social media. Fred Guttenberg, the gun reform advocate whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting massacre, tweeted it out, and it has drawn more than 1.3 million views.
“Someone of course is going to be in big trouble,” Williams added of the faux mix up.
Williams point was that “you...
The scene was a famous one. “You complete me,” Maguire, played by Tom Cruise, tells Dorothy Boyd, played by Renee Zellweger.
“You had me at hello,” she responds.
After the clip played, Williams’ guest, Baratunde Thurston, chuckled and another guest, Bill Kristol, smiled and shook his head.
“Obviously we have rolled the wrong clip and we were sold a bill of goods here,” Williams said.
The clip took off on social media. Fred Guttenberg, the gun reform advocate whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting massacre, tweeted it out, and it has drawn more than 1.3 million views.
“Someone of course is going to be in big trouble,” Williams added of the faux mix up.
Williams point was that “you...
- 1/29/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
MSNBC’s Brian Williams was in a playful mood on Thursday night following House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s meeting with Donald Trump.
Earlier that day, McCarthy was pictured at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where the two reportedly reconciled and discussed a strategy for Republicans to regain a majority in the 2022 midterm elections. Afterwards, McCarthy released a statement, which in part read: “Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022. A united conservative movement will strengthen the bonds of our citizens and uphold the freedoms our country was founded on.
Earlier that day, McCarthy was pictured at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where the two reportedly reconciled and discussed a strategy for Republicans to regain a majority in the 2022 midterm elections. Afterwards, McCarthy released a statement, which in part read: “Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022. A united conservative movement will strengthen the bonds of our citizens and uphold the freedoms our country was founded on.
- 1/29/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Show us the, er, reenactment! When Renee Zellweger and Sir Ben Kingsley stopped by for an appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden last night, the host had just one request. "You have given some iconic performance during your career and I was wondering," James Corden said to Kingsley, "I was interested to see how you would fare delivering some of Renee's most iconic lines." Insert 1996's Jerry Maguire and its most quotable scene between Zellweger's single mom Dorothy Boyd and Tom Cruise's titular sports agent. But, 23 years after its theatrical release, Corden decided to put a spin on the cult classic: Kingsley would play Boyd while she...
- 5/21/2019
- E! Online
by Eric Blume
It seems crazy, but today marks the 50th birthday of Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger. Zellweger is a bit of a divisive actor (even within this site!), but I loved her the second I first saw her onscreen, loved her through her big decade of success, and will proudly love her forever.
I fell for Zellweger for the first time the way most of America did: as assistant Dorothy Boyd opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire in 1996. Even though that film features Cruise’s best performance (he should have beat Geoffrey Rush for the Oscar), I walked away from Jerry Maguire thinking, who the hell is Renée Zellweger? It takes major presence and considerable skill to not be blown off the screen by a star like Cruise at his most commanding. Not only did Zellweger hold her own, she brought out new things in him: a comic warmth,...
It seems crazy, but today marks the 50th birthday of Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger. Zellweger is a bit of a divisive actor (even within this site!), but I loved her the second I first saw her onscreen, loved her through her big decade of success, and will proudly love her forever.
I fell for Zellweger for the first time the way most of America did: as assistant Dorothy Boyd opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire in 1996. Even though that film features Cruise’s best performance (he should have beat Geoffrey Rush for the Oscar), I walked away from Jerry Maguire thinking, who the hell is Renée Zellweger? It takes major presence and considerable skill to not be blown off the screen by a star like Cruise at his most commanding. Not only did Zellweger hold her own, she brought out new things in him: a comic warmth,...
- 4/25/2019
- by Eric Blume
- FilmExperience
The idea of “movie stars” has been on life support since the turn of the 21st Century — we live in a world where brands and intellectual property have become more important than people — but Hollywood as we know it will continue to hang on by a thread for as long as one man keeps running for its life. Tom Cruise isn’t just one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the medium, he might just be the last (depending on how Leonardo DiCaprio wants to play middle age). His face is known all over the world. His name is synonymous with big-screen entertainment. His incredible career has spanned more than 35 years, 45 roles, and hundreds upon hundreds of wild tabloid headlines. He’s been a Vietnam vet, a super-spy, a misogynistic self-help guru, a different super-spy, a samurai, a contract killer, another super-spy, a handsy bartender, a horny Chicago teenager,...
- 6/5/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Twenty years ago Tom Cruise and Reneé Zellweger stole our moviegoing hearts with their performances in Jerry Maguire and two soon-to-be-iconic catchphrases: “You complete me” and “You had me at ‘Hello.'” To celebrate its anniversary, Sony has released a special edition Blu-ray with new bonus materials — and People has an exclusive first look.
The clip features never-before-seen footage of Zellweger and Cruise rehearsing, along with brief interviews with each star.
“She’s very talented,” Cruise says in an interview filmed around the time of the 1996 production. “From the minute she came in we started reading the scene. You just see Dorothy Boyd.
The clip features never-before-seen footage of Zellweger and Cruise rehearsing, along with brief interviews with each star.
“She’s very talented,” Cruise says in an interview filmed around the time of the 1996 production. “From the minute she came in we started reading the scene. You just see Dorothy Boyd.
- 1/4/2017
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
Need to catch up? Check out last week’s Pitch recap here.
In baseball, “waving off” a pitch happens when a pitcher decides to go against a catcher’s advice and instead throws whatever kind of ball he or she deems best. It happens a lot in this week’s Pitch and, indeed, becomes Ginny’s life mantra as she navigates the expansive, landmine-filled territory of her instant stardom.
Don’t want to do what the team captain says? Wave it off. Don’t want to listen to your aggressive (though experienced) agent? Wave it off. Don’t want to...
In baseball, “waving off” a pitch happens when a pitcher decides to go against a catcher’s advice and instead throws whatever kind of ball he or she deems best. It happens a lot in this week’s Pitch and, indeed, becomes Ginny’s life mantra as she navigates the expansive, landmine-filled territory of her instant stardom.
Don’t want to do what the team captain says? Wave it off. Don’t want to listen to your aggressive (though experienced) agent? Wave it off. Don’t want to...
- 9/30/2016
- TVLine.com
In one of the many famous lines of dialogue Cameron Crowe has written, Dorothy Boyd says of Jerry Maguire, "I love him for the man he wants to be, and I love him for the man that he almost is." Dorothy is a dreamer, like most of Crowe's heroes and heroines — and, at this stage of his career, like many of his fans. We love Crowe for the storyteller he's trying to be, and almost is, even though we'd have to go all the way back to 2000's Almost Famous for a scripted project where Crowe actually lived up to his full potential as writer and director. With the likes of Elizabethtown and We Bought a Zoo, Crowe fans would look for even the faintest signs of the man who had given us Jeff Spicoli, Lloyd Dobler, Rod Tidwell, Penny Lane, and so many more, and hope for better the next time out.
- 6/22/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Cameron Crowe has made a career telling stories of flawed men who are saved thanks to young, quasi-magical women. His best films have shown the cracks in these maniacal pixies. Consider the crippling self-doubt of Penny Lane in Almost Famous, or the world-weariness of Renee Zellweger’s Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire. Penelope Cruz’s Sofia Serrano in Vanilla Sky quite literally becomes […]...
- 5/28/2015
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
“Show me the rupee!”
In Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm tries on the movie-star sports-agent suit that was tailored so perfectly for Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. But when Hamm’s J.B. Bernstein is betrayed by a client and left in dire financial straits, he books a trip to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to discover cricket players who might have major-league fastballs.
Based on a true story of two Indian (actual Indian, not Cleveland Indians) prospects signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, the film is Hamm’s first bonafide movie-star role after the breakout success of Mad Men...
In Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm tries on the movie-star sports-agent suit that was tailored so perfectly for Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. But when Hamm’s J.B. Bernstein is betrayed by a client and left in dire financial straits, he books a trip to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to discover cricket players who might have major-league fastballs.
Based on a true story of two Indian (actual Indian, not Cleveland Indians) prospects signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, the film is Hamm’s first bonafide movie-star role after the breakout success of Mad Men...
- 12/23/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Although known for his silent movies, Miles Mander was a pioneer of the 'phonofilm', paving the way for directors such as Alfred Hitchcock
The BFI's restoration of the 1928 silent The First Born, with Stephen Horne's new score performed live, was one of the big events of the BFI London film festival. Full of surprises, including two racy "making eyes" scenes that had the Queen Elizabeth Hall audience all aflutter, it lives up to Michael Powell's description of the "fluent, expressive, visual story-telling" of late silent cinema that had been cut short by the introduction of synchronised sound. Directed by Miles Mander – a black-sheep Old Harrovian with a background in boxing promotion, aviation and sheep farming – it's a topical tale of a hypocritical, philandering politician who exploits his wife to mop up the women's vote. It was released just after the 1929 "Flapper Election", which brought women under 30 into the franchise for the first time,...
The BFI's restoration of the 1928 silent The First Born, with Stephen Horne's new score performed live, was one of the big events of the BFI London film festival. Full of surprises, including two racy "making eyes" scenes that had the Queen Elizabeth Hall audience all aflutter, it lives up to Michael Powell's description of the "fluent, expressive, visual story-telling" of late silent cinema that had been cut short by the introduction of synchronised sound. Directed by Miles Mander – a black-sheep Old Harrovian with a background in boxing promotion, aviation and sheep farming – it's a topical tale of a hypocritical, philandering politician who exploits his wife to mop up the women's vote. It was released just after the 1929 "Flapper Election", which brought women under 30 into the franchise for the first time,...
- 10/27/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's a great video compliation of 150 famous movie lines and catch-phrases that we've come to know and love over the years. The great thing about movie quotes for film geeks like myself, is that whenever the moment presents itself we can always bust out a movie quote to throw into a conversation for a good laugh.
I will say most of these quotes are obvious, but it's still fun. The video below was created by David Balboa. Enjoy!
Here’s a list of each quote from the video, and who said it, from Balboa's blog Exophrine.
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!”
- Beetlejuice
- Lydia, summoning Beetlejuice “It’s showtime!”
- Beetlejuice
- Beetlejuice, being summoned. “They’re heeeere!”
- Poltergeist
- Carol Anne Freeling, notifying her parents of the spirits present “Hey you guys!”
- The Goonies
- Sloth, calling the attention of the children he’s about to save “Good morning,...
I will say most of these quotes are obvious, but it's still fun. The video below was created by David Balboa. Enjoy!
Here’s a list of each quote from the video, and who said it, from Balboa's blog Exophrine.
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!”
- Beetlejuice
- Lydia, summoning Beetlejuice “It’s showtime!”
- Beetlejuice
- Beetlejuice, being summoned. “They’re heeeere!”
- Poltergeist
- Carol Anne Freeling, notifying her parents of the spirits present “Hey you guys!”
- The Goonies
- Sloth, calling the attention of the children he’s about to save “Good morning,...
- 3/5/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Movie quotes are the currency by which we pay respect to our favorite films. We grab them out of our pockets at the most appropriate, or inappropriate, times, adding our love of a movie to an advancing conversation. Sometimes these quotes are insignificant lines you and your friends hold near to your hearts but, most of the time, these lines are the ones we all know and love. David Balboa, who runs a blog called Exophrine, edited together 150 of lines and catch phrases just like that into one, cool little video. Included are such diverse films as The Princess Bride, Rocky IV, Aliens, Toy Story, Die Hard, Citizen Kane and many more. Check it out, as well as the full rundown of what's in it, after the jump. Thanks to Balboa and his Exophrine blog [1] for this awesome video. And here's the list of each quote, and who said it,...
- 3/5/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
In honor of the 83rd Academy Awards, Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." — Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
The Godfather (1972)
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." — Marlon Brando as Don Corleone...
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." — Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
The Godfather (1972)
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." — Marlon Brando as Don Corleone...
- 2/27/2011
- Extra
This is the Pure Movies review of Knight and Day, directed by James Mangold and starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Grace, Paul Dano and Marc Blucas. Written by Pure Movies writer Joe Fraser. Tom Cruise is probably best described as the Marmite of Hollywood: loved and hated in equal measure. Twenty-eight years in the business and thirty-seven films down the line, this actor has worked with legendary directors, raked in billions of dollars through classics (yes classics) such as Top Gun, and amassed a loyal fan base in the process. Unlike Dorothy Boyd however, there are also those who Cruise never did ‘have at hello.’ For movie goers never sold by the frankly blinding smile of America’s all-action hero, a string of predictable performances over recent years, have been all too much to bear. After a lukewarm reception to the recent announcement that a fourth Mission...
- 12/12/2010
- by Alex Godbold
- Pure Movies
In case you missed the memo (and I'm not saying you did), Scarlett Johansson is one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses. But for someone who just kicked butt (literally) as the superheroic Black Widow in this summer's biggest hit, "Iron Man 2," she's got a pretty wide-open schedule. In fact, the only gig Johansson has lined up is reprising her Widow role in 2012's "The Avengers." So it's no wonder that with some high-profile projects currently looking to cast their leading ladies, ScarJo's name has popped up numerous times today alone.
This morning, Deadline reported she was one of a gaggle of gorgeous Hollywood A-listers being considered for the pivotal role of Daisy Buchanan in ,a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/tag/baz-luhrmann/">Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" adaptation, which reportedly has Leonardo DiCaprio in line for the Jay Gatsby role and Tobey Maguire tentatively on tap to play narrator Nick Carraway.
This morning, Deadline reported she was one of a gaggle of gorgeous Hollywood A-listers being considered for the pivotal role of Daisy Buchanan in ,a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/tag/baz-luhrmann/">Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" adaptation, which reportedly has Leonardo DiCaprio in line for the Jay Gatsby role and Tobey Maguire tentatively on tap to play narrator Nick Carraway.
- 11/2/2010
- by Tom DiChiara
- MTV Movies Blog
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." --Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." --Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
"You don't understand!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." --Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." --Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
"You don't understand!
- 3/6/2010
- Extra
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand!
- 11/4/2009
- Extra
Film review: 'Jerry Maguire'
Tom Cruise gets religion in "Jerry Maguire", starring as a slick, big-time sports agent who decides that his high-powered, cutthroat profession needs a more caring and sensitive approach. With Cruise perfectly cast in this penultimate role of wheeler-dealer, Sony should ink a strong opening weekend bonus, but the film's long-term contract at the boxoffice looks less promising. While it will surely score some big numbers based on Cruise's star appeal, this smart but decidedly squishy sports-world saga, replete with an old-movie-style love subplot, is likely to have its steadiest fans among women who read Cosmopolitan rather than men who watch ESPN.
As "plastics" was the defining word in "The Graduate", "shoe contracts" says it all in "Jerry Maguire", as writer-director Cameron Crowe etches a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look into the juggernaut jock world of sports agenting, a world where teenage kids become instant millionaires and whose immature whims and excesses drive the lives of all those around him. The athletes are the cash cows, and it's the agents' job to milk every last penny out of their short-term sports careers.
SMI sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) is not only caught up in this world, he's been a driving force in shaping it. Then one day -- klonk -- he sees the error of his ways. He sees it in the look of a little boy whose hockey-star father has suffered yet another concussion and whom Cruise, with commission signs flashing in his eyes, encourages to get back on the ice as soon as possible.
Feverish with insight, Jerry goes home and writes a long memo and drops it in the mailboxes of all his company's employees. Not surprisingly, it's greeted with the same kind of enthusiasm that any out-of-the-blue personal conversion is regarded. However, unlike talent agencies, whose power-peoples' behavior can be shaped and softened by in-house psychologists, SMI promptly fires Jerry. The only one who sides with him is Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a staff secretary who quits to work with him. Jerry and Dorothy soon learn that loyalty is not a trait among Jerry's spoiled-jock clients, as only a mouthy, second-tier star footballer (Cuba Gooding Jr.) decides to stick with Jerry.
Essentially, "Jerry Maguire"'s narrative game plan revolves around Jerry's struggles to keep his one client and set up an honorable, and yet profitable, business. Crowe's sharp insights into the business side of the sports world, coupled with a truly decent sensibility, team to flesh out a good-hearted story.
Unfortunately, Crowe's script tends to be preachy and downslides into a touchy-feely mode that, ironically, detracts from its thematic power. In football lexicon, Crowe is best when he drills home his points rather than when he puts too much touch on them. Indicative of its wind-aided trajectory, it clocks in at 135 minutes. Additionally, the film's romantic subplot is nicely old-fashioned, but in this case it seems more a plot contrivance and more a relationship of mutual desperation than one based on real love. Accordingly, the romantic scenes between Cruise and Zellweger are surprisingly flat.
Consistent with his perceptive insights into this sports/marketing world, Crowe has created an array of generally credible supporting characters. However, even people who have an ingrown aversion toward agents may notice that the chief SMI Agent Jay Mohr) is over-the-top nasty. On the jock front, however, Gooding is so believable in his role as Jerry's selfish, pea-brained, wide-receiver client that the Dallas Cowboys might consider signing him up to complement Michael Irvin. Regina King is also a standout as the footballer's fiercely supportive wife and Bonnie Hunt delivers some wonderful verbal hits as Dorothy's man-wise sister.
JERRY MAGUIRE
Sony
TriStar Pictures
A Gracie Films production
A film by Cameron Crowe
Producers Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks,
Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Screenwriter-director Cameron Crowe
Co-producers Bruce S. Pustin, John D. Schofield
Executive producer Bridget Johnson
Associate producer Lisa Stewart,
J. Michael Mendel
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production design Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design Betsy Heimann
Editor Joe Hutshing
Music Nancy Wilson
Music supervisor Danny Bramson
Casting Gail Levin
Sound mix Jeff Wexler
Executive for Gracie Films Bridget Johnson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise
Avery Bishop Kelly Preston
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorothy Boyd Renee Zellweger
Laurel Boyd Bonnie Hunt
Marcee Tidwell Regina King
Bob Sugar Jay Mohr
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
As "plastics" was the defining word in "The Graduate", "shoe contracts" says it all in "Jerry Maguire", as writer-director Cameron Crowe etches a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look into the juggernaut jock world of sports agenting, a world where teenage kids become instant millionaires and whose immature whims and excesses drive the lives of all those around him. The athletes are the cash cows, and it's the agents' job to milk every last penny out of their short-term sports careers.
SMI sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) is not only caught up in this world, he's been a driving force in shaping it. Then one day -- klonk -- he sees the error of his ways. He sees it in the look of a little boy whose hockey-star father has suffered yet another concussion and whom Cruise, with commission signs flashing in his eyes, encourages to get back on the ice as soon as possible.
Feverish with insight, Jerry goes home and writes a long memo and drops it in the mailboxes of all his company's employees. Not surprisingly, it's greeted with the same kind of enthusiasm that any out-of-the-blue personal conversion is regarded. However, unlike talent agencies, whose power-peoples' behavior can be shaped and softened by in-house psychologists, SMI promptly fires Jerry. The only one who sides with him is Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a staff secretary who quits to work with him. Jerry and Dorothy soon learn that loyalty is not a trait among Jerry's spoiled-jock clients, as only a mouthy, second-tier star footballer (Cuba Gooding Jr.) decides to stick with Jerry.
Essentially, "Jerry Maguire"'s narrative game plan revolves around Jerry's struggles to keep his one client and set up an honorable, and yet profitable, business. Crowe's sharp insights into the business side of the sports world, coupled with a truly decent sensibility, team to flesh out a good-hearted story.
Unfortunately, Crowe's script tends to be preachy and downslides into a touchy-feely mode that, ironically, detracts from its thematic power. In football lexicon, Crowe is best when he drills home his points rather than when he puts too much touch on them. Indicative of its wind-aided trajectory, it clocks in at 135 minutes. Additionally, the film's romantic subplot is nicely old-fashioned, but in this case it seems more a plot contrivance and more a relationship of mutual desperation than one based on real love. Accordingly, the romantic scenes between Cruise and Zellweger are surprisingly flat.
Consistent with his perceptive insights into this sports/marketing world, Crowe has created an array of generally credible supporting characters. However, even people who have an ingrown aversion toward agents may notice that the chief SMI Agent Jay Mohr) is over-the-top nasty. On the jock front, however, Gooding is so believable in his role as Jerry's selfish, pea-brained, wide-receiver client that the Dallas Cowboys might consider signing him up to complement Michael Irvin. Regina King is also a standout as the footballer's fiercely supportive wife and Bonnie Hunt delivers some wonderful verbal hits as Dorothy's man-wise sister.
JERRY MAGUIRE
Sony
TriStar Pictures
A Gracie Films production
A film by Cameron Crowe
Producers Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks,
Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
Screenwriter-director Cameron Crowe
Co-producers Bruce S. Pustin, John D. Schofield
Executive producer Bridget Johnson
Associate producer Lisa Stewart,
J. Michael Mendel
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production design Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design Betsy Heimann
Editor Joe Hutshing
Music Nancy Wilson
Music supervisor Danny Bramson
Casting Gail Levin
Sound mix Jeff Wexler
Executive for Gracie Films Bridget Johnson
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise
Avery Bishop Kelly Preston
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorothy Boyd Renee Zellweger
Laurel Boyd Bonnie Hunt
Marcee Tidwell Regina King
Bob Sugar Jay Mohr
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/9/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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