matthewjoseph-54651 Jerry Mcguire is a great drama comedy with a good performance by Tom Cruise and some excellent acting by Renee Zellwegger, young Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Hunt and especially Cuba Gooding Jr. who won a best supporting academy award for this role. The jokes are great and the script is breezy yet heartwarming and witty. This is Cameron Crowe at his finest and one of the finest drama films made in the 1990s. Cameron Crowe is a great writer and Jerry Mcguire could be his best work.

merelyaninnuendo Jerry MaguireThere are some genuine emotional moments with cliched touch which works for the most part of the movie with the help of some good performances but lacks complete understanding on executing a scene. Jerry Maguire despite of its strong writing material relies totally upon the performances and brings out the best from each and every character. Cameron Crowe still needs some work to do on supervising and executing from paper onto the screen. As mentioned earlier, it is filled with stellar performance by Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger. Jerry Maguire starts off slowly as it takes its time to settle on its first act and then boosts up with incredible writing and finishes off majestically.

cncsurf I had the unfortunate experience of watching this movie while in a hotel with my girlfriend recently. She LOVES this film for some reason and I gave her the remote and that's what stayed on. I was appalled. There is not one single likeable character. Yes, the actors were OK which is why I gave it 2 stars. But the plot is ludicrous. An unlikable jerk (Tom Cruise) is fired by unlikable jerks (The Company) in a cut throat industry, and rides the coat tails of another unlikable jerk (Cuba Gooding Jr.). After an annoying and obnoxious couple hours trying to make unlikable jerks likeable it turns out the once powerful sports agent is a chump who magically falls in love with a loser single mom and her child. A single mom who has no problem letting a strange man she just started dating cuddle up with her 5 year old boy. wouldn't anyone find this a little creepy??? By the end I was in diabetic shock from the forced ridiculous plot and romance.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Jerry McGuire (1996)Plot In A Paragraph: When sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and a former co worker.In a time when I'm becoming less and less interested in new movies, Jerry Maguire reminds me why I love movies. Cameron Crowe has wrote and directed a really good movie. A movie that is all about its characters, and whose main character spends much of the time desperate and out of luck. Movies like that can be depressing and a tough watch, but Jerry Maguire isn't. It is not without its problems!! It's a tad too long, has too many subplots, we get your standard sports movie cliché scene, and the kid is a little too movie cute too. Cruise (who won the golden globe) holds the full thing together he is literally in every scene. You need to root for the hero in the movie, and you do root for Cruise, who spends more time on the ropes here, than in any other movie.I find Cuba Gooding Jr really annoying here!! He is just so loud!! All he seems to do is yell!! I could not spend more than 5 minutes in a room with his character!! I'm amazed he won the Oscar. Something Crowe is good at, is giving characters with a small amount of screen time, personalities that made them stand out! Regina King is really good at standing out in her small role. Kelly Preston, so adorable in Twins, is so unappealing here and Jay Mohr is perfectly sleazy as a rival sports agent.Jerry McGuire was nominated for 5 Oscars and grossed $153 million at the domestic box office to end the year, the 4th highest grossing movie of 1996. This was Tom Cruise's fifth consecutive 100-million-dollar-plus film, a new record at the time.