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 enlarge | Director: Cameron Crowe
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 4031
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 139
ASIN: B00170M2JY
Release Date: November 8, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Jerry Meguire November 2, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched the film and I found it so interested especially for me I watched it with the real voices.
The DVD is perfect and the seller delivered it as fast as possible
my rate is 5 stars
Fabio A.
A Very Unique Romantic Comedy, with a Great Performance by Cruise October 5, 2007
Cameron Crowe has a knack for writing off-beat romantic-comedies that manage to make us laugh, but also hit a nerve. One of his best films is "Say Anything" with the legendary scene where John Cusack holds up a boombox and plays a song for a girl he loves. "Jerry Maguire" spawned an equally legendary scene (more specifically, a line of dialogue) in which Tom Cruise as the title character tells Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), "You complete me." I never thought I'd like "Jerry Maguire." It's about a sports agent and it's got Tom Cruise (in an Oscar nominated performance). Not really my kind of movie, but believe me...It's really good. Cruise plays Jerry Maguire, a ruthless sports agent with a lovely fiancee (Kelly Preston) and a successful job. Jerry likes his life, but cares about only one thing...Money. That is until his life gets thrown out of proportion when the son of one of his clients says "f**k you." This sets something off in Jerry which causes him to write a mission statement (which everyone, much to his chagrine, decides to call a 'memo') about caring more for the client. He's soon fired from his job and loses his fiancee. He decides to start his own company with one client, a loud-mouthed football player named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and one secretary; Dorothy, a single mother who quits her job to join Jerry based solely on his mission statement. As Jerry's life starts getting back on track, he finds himself falling for Doroty and her charming son Ray (Jonathan Lipnicki). Tom Cruise is a very good actor, who in the 80's and early 90's was hugely successful and seemed destined to win an Oscar. Now, he's mostly known for jumping on couches. Anyone who has only caught a film like "Mission: Impossible 3" lately will be very surprised when they see this film. Tom Cruise is absolutely perfect, combining the charm and bravado needed for a role like this. All the performances are great, particularly Zellweger, Lipnicki, Gooding Jr., Wanda Sykes as Rod's wife Marcee, and Bonnie Hunt as Dorothy's sister. Gooding Jr. deservedly won his Oscar, yet is another actor whose career has slowly drifted away. It seems that lately Gooding Jr. is just like his character in this film, craving money and nothing else. It seems he'll do anything for a paycheck now (see "Daddy Day Camp" which will be released in a few months). Lipnicki gives one of the best child performances I've ever seen, because he's just as charming as Cruise is and it's believable when you see Jerry falling in love with him. "Jerry Maguire" is off-beat as far as romantic-comedies though, but it's a very good film that's worth watching.
GRADE: A-
The world is so pale without love September 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's not a masterpiece but it is a very good film not so much for the meaning it may contain but for the images it sends in the audience. First it gives a positive image of sports by showing how one man, one agent can be different from all others in this "industry", and that the main difference is to believe in what he is doing, to believe in what his heart is telling him, to work with his heart and to love the players, the athletes he is working for, he is working with. That emotional, personal and very close relationship is what everyone needs all the time to feel needed, supported. The film shows that this is also the winning method because athletes want that contact and they can recognize that human attitude and they will work for this warmth of the heart, from the heart and in the heart. And what's more this relationship will enable the athletes as well as the agents to face the difficulties life is made of and life brings up all the time. This will mean success to the athletes as athletes and success for both the agents and the athletes financially. What's more the film conveys another tremendously positive image because the agent is white and the athlete is black and their relationship is one of trust, total friendship and confidence, one of love nothing but love and care and that is the right model to send in the public: what is important is not the differences among people but the possibility to establish trusting and loving relationships beyond these differences and accepting them totally.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Jerry Maguire July 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cameron Crowe's directorial breakthrough (he also scripted) is an infectious comedy-romance buoyed by a star-making turn from Zellwegger, and an Oscar-winning comic performance from Gooding. Young Lipnicki is pretty appealing too, and all provide Cruise with plenty of opportunities to shine. Razor-sharp yet very human satire ends up really warming the heart.
One of my Top Ten All Time July 7, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Why? It is REAL! The character relationships and interaction are HONEST. We are talking real, raw, genuine emotion! The movie is about making a change in your own character and living with the consequences, good and bad. It is about developing genuine relationships in your life. It is about two men who "mature" through their relationship with each other. Some of the dialogue is now part of our pop-culture. There are some scenes that are hilarious. You will definitely take away a few things from this movie that will be with you forever.
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