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Not to be confused with Jeremy Maguire. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised its performances and screenplay. It was the ninth-highest-budweiser company name film of 1996.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Tom Cruise, with Cuba Gooding Jr. Leaving the office, Jerry announces that he will start his own agency and asks if anyone will join him, to which only 26-year-old single mother Dorothy Boyd agrees. After an argument Jerry breaks up with his disgruntled fiancée Avery. He then turns to Dorothy, becoming closer to her young son, Ray, and starts a relationship with her. Jerry concentrates all his efforts on Rod, now his only client, who turns out to be very difficult to satisfy.
During a December Monday Night Football game between the Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys, Rod plays well but appears to receive a serious injury when catching a winning touchdown, securing a spot for the Cardinals in the playoffs. Jerry speaks of Ray’s possible future sports industry career with Dorothy. Cameron Crowe originally wrote the screenplay for Tom Hanks. Crowe took so long to write the screenplay that by the time the film was ready to be made, he thought Hanks was too old to play the part. Janet Jackson auditioned and was initially accepted for the role of Marcee Tidwell, though it later went to Regina King, who previously co-starred in Janet Jackson’s debut film Poetic Justice. Artie Lange filmed a scene for the movie but it was edited out of the final cut.
Jerry Maguire debuted at number one. 84 critics, with an average score of 7. Its consensus states: “Anchored by dazzling performances from Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. Renée Zellweger, as well as Cameron Crowe’s tender direction, Jerry Maguire meshes romance and sports with panache.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rod Tidwell, the Arizona Cardinals football player who sticks with Maguire. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, writing that there “are so many subplots that Jerry Maguire seems too full” and also commented that the film “starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heartwarmer. Former Green Bay Packers vice president Andrew Brandt said that the film “accurately portrayed the cutthroat nature of the agent business, especially the lengths to which agents will go to retain or pilfer clients. It also captured the financial, emotional and psychological investment that goes far beyond negotiating contracts. The film’s screenplay was later voted the 66th greatest ever written in a poll by the Writers Guild of America. Jerry Maguire was first released on VHS and Laserdisc on May 29, 1997. It is the best selling VHS tape of all time which was not released by Disney.
Over 3 million copies were sold during its first week of release. It was re-released on VHS in the late 90s. The film was first released onto DVD on June 24, 1997 and around 2002 respectively in both a standard edition and a two-disc “Special Edition”. Jerry Maguire spawned several popular quotations, including “Show me the money! Kwan,” a word used by Cuba Gooding Jr. In June 2008, AFI revealed its “Ten Top Ten”—the best ten films in ten “classic” American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
Jerry Maguire was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the sports genre. AFI’s 100 Years100 Movie Quotes: “Show me the money! In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Jerry Maguire one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. Rod Tidwell and Frank Cushman after the events of the film.
