Jerry Maguire is a movie that makes you want to hug yourself. Jerry Maguire (played by Tom Cruise), is a high ranking sports agent who has a large amount of clients that he can't really focus on any of them. He spends most of his time travelling, going hotel to hotel, constantly meeting up with client and doing the bidding of the company. Jerry is then fired for having a revelation is the sense that he should be more personal with his client and the company should be more like family than employees. Being perceived as going insane all of his clients stick with the secure corporation. Only one client doesn't leave Maguire when he is fired. Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a wide receiver for Arizona, who fights with Jerry but sees him as being sincere and believe in his ability to make him successful. Rod's wife Marcee (Regina King) is Tidwell’s most supportive, dedicated and all-around biggest fan, and their marriage is a true love story. Jerry’s own engagement to the power-mad Avery Bishop (Kelly Preston) is then shown to be exposed as some sort of relationship out of convenience instead of love.
Renee Zellweger (Dorothy Boyd), whose lovability is one of the key elements in a movie that starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heart warmer. She is a single mother in a seemingly dead end job and is instantly infatuated with Jerry Maguire. She has moments where she is standing in her kitchen and tells her older sister that she really, truly, loves a man with her whole heart and soul. Cruise plays Maguire with the earnestness of a man who wants to find greatness and happiness in an occupation where only success really counts. She plays a woman who believes in this guy she loves, and reminds us that true love is about idealism ( ``I love you because of who you are--and who I am when I am with you.''). There are also lines that have resonated with the current culture of the world and keep this movie as a constant reminder to classic moments in film (“You complete me….”, “You have me at hello.”)
To keep the male audience somewhat engaged; there is an actual sports element and comedic dialog that relates to guys.
The actual sports scenes are actually very predictable. Yet the focus is to give the feel good satisfaction and also keep the sports from overshadowing the focus on Jerry and dilemmas. Finally the movie is about transformation: About two men who learn how to value something more important than money, and about two women who always knew. Both Jerry and Rod have to fight through the trials and tribulations of wanting to be successful without having to sell out or having to sacrifice the idea that it can’t be done while being dedicated family men.
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