Jerriffic!

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2006)

"Show me the money!" Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports manager who makes a fatal mistake and writes a memo which causes his big problems.
After getting fired at a local restaurant Maguire's life becomes a struggle. He has to manage on his own by being his own boss. Still he gets one employee of his ex-job to follow him and become his secretary. Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger who's role made her famous) is a widow and a single mother of an adorable boy Ray (John Lipnicki) who is loyal to his new boss despite the fact he could not provide a great deal of personal benefits to his secretary.
Jerry Maguire loses all his clients except a footballer Rod Tidwell (amazing and energetic Cuba Gooding Jr.) who wants to make profitable contract with the Football league. This becomes a crazy hullabaloo trying to satisfy Tidwell's great demands. Jerry has to think is it worth it to work hard with only one client.
"Jerry Maguire" is a mix of drama and comedy spiced up with serious relationship tangles. The director and writer Cameron Crowe is good at handling problematic relationships and obstacles of life. The neurotic sport agents life is a story with a lot of growing pains but believing your self and your abilities is the key-word to success. A little help from people who love you can make a huge difference.
As usual the former rock'n'roll journalist Crowe has put up with another amazing soundtrack. Rock legend Bruce Springsteen's "Secret Garden" is capturing and fits perfectly into the theme.
"Jerry Maguire" has provided some great, very often quoted lines. "Show me the money"-sequence is raving funny. "You complete me"-line melt my heart as mushy it sounds like. I wish somebody would say that kind of things to me also.