Jerry Maguire

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!!!

       This is my favorite Tom Cruise movie. For those of you who have a troubled love life and a rough job, love sports like football, then this movie is for you. As you know, this movie stars Tom Cruise as the title character. It also stars Cuba Gooding Jr. (in his Oscar winning performance), Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones' Diary), Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Regina King, and little Jonathan Lipnicki (Stuart Little and Zachery Beaver).
      Jerry Maguire is a slick sports agent with a successful job. He has it all, a lover, big clients, you name it. Then one day, after seeing a client in a hospital bed, Jerry has a problem of conscience, so he writes a mission statement that causes him to lose his job. Desperate to keep the athletes he represents, Jerry starts his own management company with only one person joining him, Dorothy Boyd (Zegweller), a single mother. Dealing with their one and only client, egotistic football player Rod Tidwell (Gooding), Jerry and Dorothy become infatuated as they battle to make their business work.
    What I love about this movie is that it has an emotional story, it has its funny moments, and it deals with sports. I've seen Tom Cruise in Risky Business, The Outsiders, and Rain Man, but Jerry Maguire, in my opinion, is his best work. I also loved Cuba Gooding's performance. He pretty much stole the show. And young Jonathan Lipnicki was super adorable. And let's not forget Renee Zegweller's performance as a mom and a perfect sidekick to Cruise. Above all, great movie. No wonder it was nominated for Best Picture.

Parents Guide: This movie is rated R. There are some sex scenes in this movie. Some brief nudity. There's some football violence, and a scene where Kelly Preston beats up Tom Cruise after a break-up. There's also some major language such as blasphemy, f-bombs, and other curses. 

Did You Know?: Tom Cruise cried when he first read the script. Jonathan Lipnicki showed up on set one day and said that the human head weighs eight pounds. This impressed Cameron Crowe, he wrote it into the script. The kid who said "F you" to Jerry was played by a young Drake Bell (Drake & Josh). 

 

 

To my mom, who hates Tom Cruise, but loves this quote above.

Billy Madison

     Well, it's back to school season, and what better movie to start school off with a comedy like Adam Sandler's Billy Madison? Now, I'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler. But I like some of his movies, including this one. Sandler stars as Billy Madison in this funny screwball comedy that makes learning not that difficult. 

  Meet Billy Madison, a spoiled rich man child who spends his days being doing immature stuff like pulling pranks on people, drinking, looking at nudie magazines, chasing invisible penguins, and playing Nintendo. Billy's father Brian (Darren McGavin from A Christmas Story) was sick of Billy's behavior. After Billy ruined a special dinner, Brian loses confidence in his son and gives the family fortune to Eric Gordon (Bradley Whitford from West Wing). To win back his father's trust, Billy decides to go back to school to prove that he can handle inheriting his father's company. But he has to start way back to first grade. Billy must mature along the way too, especially when it comes to winning the heart of a teacher (played by Bridgette Wilson) who thinks Billy is a moron. 

   Movies like this proves that you need to grow up and be mature. 

     

            What I like about this movie is  Adam Sandler's performance as Billy. His performance reminds me of the late Jerry Lewis. Also, it's one of those rare moments where Adam Sandler does a good job in movies. Sure he was great in Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer, but films like Jack and Jill and Eight Crazy Nights, NOT GOOD. But Billy Madison, this shows that Sandler can make a great movie even though most of his other movies are failures.

     DID YOU KNOW?: The kids loved playing with Adam Sandler by tackling and jumping on him. In real life, Adam Sandler's mom was a nursery school teacher, and this is one of her favorite movies. David Spade (SNL and Emperor's New Groove) was considered to be in the movie.

     Parent's Guide: This movie may not be appropriate for kids. It's rated PG-13 for language and crude humor. There's some sex references here and there. Lots of swearing. And every now and then, some raunchy humor.