JERRY MAGUIRE 1996 DAILYMOTIN MOVIE

Jerry decides to go it along but only manages to get two clients and one employee to come with him, but quickly even his small successes start turning into failure. It isn't long before Bob Sugar is telling him that he is fired. However when he suffers guilt at the nature of his business he proposed that his company take on fewer clients and put more personal care into them and prints up mission statements for all his colleagues. Jerry is a sports agent and a very good sports agent at that. I saw this film again after 20 years because part of the scenes were featured in The Lego Batman Movie, the implication being some of the lines are hackneyed. At the end Maguire is successful because of the one to one relationship he has with his only client which other sports player are envious of. Jerry Maguire is actually a corny film, Cuba Gooding jr provides the laughs but the romance angle is very cheesy. A reason why Maguire is struggling to get a lucrative contract deal for him. Tidwell shows loyalty and friendship to Maguire but in the football field he comes across as shallow and selfish. Maguire needs to persuade Tidwell to play football with his heart and not think about endorsements or why other players are earning more. Dorothy and Jerry fall in love but we are not sure if he genuinely confused her loyalty with love. Maguire starts out at the bottom with Tidwell and Dorothy (Renee Zellweger) a single mother and one of the assistants from the sports agency who has followed him. Maguire also is also chasing a hot shot player for the draft and thinks he has bagged him only to be snatched away by his rival. Maguire is only left with one client, a mouthy, flamboyant football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding jr) who is upset that he is not getting the top endorsement deals. His rival at the firm has to fire him and then compete for all his clients. Jerry Maguire is a feel good romantic drama which surfed a zeitgeist wave in the mid 1990s and coined catchphrases such as 'Show me the money' 'You had me at hello' and 'You complete me.' Tom Cruise plays the successful sports agent Jerry Maguire who upsets his bosses with a mission statement such as having less clients in order to serve them better. Maybe it needed a Billy Wilder to direct it.

Though I think a lot of Billy Wilder type satire was missed, Jerry Maguire is still a very well done film. In fact Jerry Maguire lost for Best Picture to The English Patient. Cruise also was nominated for Best Actor in the title role. His scenes with wife Regina King and the rest of his family are far removed from the Muhammed Ali like face he shows the public. However the reason he won it is that his portrayal of Tidwell is multidimensional. Tidwell's one egotistical handful and Gooding won a deserved Best Supporting Actor Oscar. who plays Rod Tidwell, a running back for the Phoenix Suns. His one client who does stick with him is Cuba Gooding Jr. O'Connell and his family, despite the whole honest country boy shtick, do disappoint him. Cruise has some tough sledding at first, one client he had counted on was college sensation Jerry O'Connell who is being inundated with draft offers and endorsements. The kid is a scene stealer, mainly because he acts like a real kid, not some Hollywood creation. Some of his and Renee Zellweger's best scenes are with little Jonathan Lipnicki who is her son from a previous marriage.

JERRY MAGUIRE 1996 DAILYMOTIN MOVIE

And it's romance that the movie going public likes with Tom Cruise. Satire however might have crowded out romance in a Wilder film.

Jerry Maguire would have been a great film for him to write and direct. If Jerry Maguire lacks something it would probably be Billy Wilder's surefire wit and sense of satire. But patience can certainly be its own reward sometime. She's been crushing out on him for the longest time even though he's been seeing Kelly Preston. Cruise has one of those chew the scenery moments when he leaves Mohr's office and secretary Renee Zellweger decides to leave with him. You wouldn't think of Tom Cruise being up for parts that Jack Lemmon would have been cast for, but he does an incredible job in the role of go-getter sports agent Maguire who decides to leave the high pressure agency that Jay Mohr runs and going out on his own.

If Jerry Maguire were made 30 years earlier I can see Jack Lemmon playing the title role.

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