A Must Watch for any film lover.... What an honest picture!!!

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2009)

The movie totally focused on the theme of the rise of the phoenix from his own ashes. An out of client sports agent, a struggling football star and a single mother creates their own destiny in order to survive and show everyone that they might be down but not out.
Tom Cruise is an sports agent who lost his job when his girlfriend leaves him. Rene is the single mother who falls for Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. is the struggling football star who wants to reach the magical 10 million dollar mark before retiring.
The fight back and realization of love and its importance makes Tom Cruise bewildered and there is the masterstroke from Crowe. Awesome cinematography, thoughtful editing and needless to say brilliant direction. Too bad that year the panel in the academy awards were all idiotic film experts who ignored both Cruise's and Crowe's performance.
In my book Tom, Cuba , Cameron and Rene all deserves an Oscar for this movie.