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.