Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him. But it begins to dawn on Jerry that there's something wrong with what he's doing, and not long after a troubling encounter with the son of an injured athlete he represents, Jerry has a serious crisis of conscience. In the midst of a sleepless night, Jerry writes a memo calling on himself and his colleagues to think more about the long-term welfare of the clients they represent and less about immediate profits. While everyone around him applauds the sentiment, Jerry's superiors think his ideas are bad for business; Jerry is fired, and, rather than standing in solidarity with him, his "friends" in the firm scramble like sharks to claim Jerry's clients. At the end of his last day, the only people willing to join Jerry as he strikes out on his own are staff accountant Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a single mother secretly in love with him, and Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a football player whose pride and arrogance have gotten in the way of his reaching his potential. Jerry Maguire earned an Academy Award for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s performance as Tidwell and provided a breakthrough role for Renee Zellweger; it also made "Show me the money" an unavoidable catchphrase for several months. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Genre: Romance
- Category Sports Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Slice of Life
- Theme: Starting Over, Redemption, Opposites Attract, Hotshots, Fired or Laid-Off, Football Players, Existential Crisis
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- Run Time: 02 hr 18 min
- Language: Spanish, Portuguese, English, French
- Subtitle Language: Spanish, French, Korean, English, Arabic, Portuguese
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Release Date: September 9, 2008
- Lead Actor: Jay Mohr, Kelly Preston, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger
- Supporting Actor: Christine Cavanaugh, Dean Blasucci, Diana Jordan, Erica Sergi, Herman Moore, Hynden Walch, Jann Wenner, Jerry Cantrell, Alberto Alfavo, Frank Gifford, Mark Pellington, Juan Arnoldo Morales, Johnnie Morton, Jim Irsay, Susan Norfleet, Emily Procter, Donal Logue, Brandon Christianson, Aries Spears, Alison Armitage, Alice Marie Crowe, Richie Kortite, Wayne Fontes, Thomas J. Reilly, Theo Greenly, Susan Pingleton, Justina Vail, Kerry Collins, Kymberly Kaill, Larina Adamson, Lee Zick, Lisa Ann Hadley, Mel Kiper, Nada Bospotovich, Shannon Thornton, Stephanie Furst, Tim McDonald, Tom Gallop, Winnie Holzman, Katarina Witt, Benjamin Kimball Smith, Alexandra Wentworth, Amaryllis Borrego, Beaumont Bacon, Charlie Cronin, Dallas Malloy, Danny Rimmer, Drake Bell, Gale Hillman, Glenn Frey, Jeremy Suarez, Jesus Alberto Guzman, Jonathan Lipinski, Jordan Ross, Kelly Coffield, Kirsten Krueger, Klair Bybee, Lightfield Lewis, Luis Damian, Rod Tate, Rebecca Rigg, Mike White, Mike Tirico, Todd Louiso, Beau Bridges, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Hunt, Jerry O'Connell, Lamont Johnson, Tom Friend, Stacey Williams, Russel Lunday, Roy Firestone, Rick Mirer, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Nada Bestopovich, Ki-Juana Carter, Lisa Stahl, Leslie Upson, Jim Moffatt, Warren Moon, Troy Aikman, Toby Huss, Stanley Sessoms, Samantha Smith, Rob Moore, Rick Johnson, Meg Irsay, Lucy Liu, Lisa Amsterdam, Art Monk, Lauren Parker, Jerry Ziesmer, Jeffrey Lurie, Angela Goethals, Brent Barry, Cha-Cha Sandoval, Dan Dierdorf, David Ursin, Drew Bledsoe, Michael James Johnson, Drew Rosenhaus, Eric Stoltz, Evelyn Fontes, Golde Starger, Ingrid Beer, Ivana Marina, Ivana Milicevic, Jared Jussim, Al Michaels
- Director: Cameron Crowe
awards
- Awards: Golden Globe Awards (1), Academy Awards (1)
- Winner: Golden Globe Awards, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, 1996, Tom Cruise
- Winner: Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor, 1996, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- Nominations: Academy Awards (4)
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Actor, 1996, Tom Cruise
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay, 1996, Cameron Crowe
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Picture, 1996, James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Editing, 1996, Joe Hutshing
