Jerry Maguire

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2005)

From director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), this is a funny, touching and charming sports comedy romance. Golden Globe winning, and Oscar nominated Tom Cruise plays Jerry Maguire, a sports agent who is "at the top of his game", and he is breaking down after being fired. The only person willing to go with him to make a new company is Dorothy Boyd (Bridget Jones's Renée Zellweger). When he loses his best client Frank Cushman (Jerry O'Connell) to his mean opposition Bob Sugar (Small Soldiers' Jay Mohr), the one and only client he can try and make a career for, and from, is ego-maniacal football player Rod Tidwell (Oscar winning, and Golden Globe nominated Cuba Gooding Jr.). Jerry is doing everything he can (for free) to try and resurrect Rod's career and get him the recognition he knows he and his wife Marcee (Regina King) want. Also on Jerry's mind is his close relationship with Dorothy and her lovable son Raymond (Stuart Little's Jonathan Lipnicki), turning into real love and eventually a marriage, that does fall apart for a little while, but in the end is saved by Jerry's words. Also starring Kelly Preston as Avery Bishop (Jerry's ex-fiancée), Jumanji's Bonnie Hunt as Laurel (Dorothy's sister). The scene where Cruise and Gooding Jr. are shouting the famous catchphrase on the phone is pure entertainment. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Film Editing, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Picture, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical. Tom Cruise was number 32 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, he was number 25 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols, and he was number 81 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons, the film was number 56 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers for Jerry coming back, it was number 100 on 100 Years, 100 Passions, and it was number 52 ("You had me at "hello".") and number 25 ("Show me the money!") on 100 Years, 100 Quotes. Very good!