Jerry Maguire
Short description
Jerry Maguire is a successful sports agent whose life changes after he writes a mission statement questioning the ethics of his profession. The document costs him his job, and nearly all of his clients leave with it. He is left to start over on his own with just one client, the outspoken football player Rod Tidwell, and with Dorothy Boyd, a colleague who gives up her position to join him. What follows is a struggle to rebuild his career while balancing his new professional obligations against a personal relationship.
Tom Cruise leads a cast that includes Renée Zellweger as Dorothy, Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod, Kelly Preston as Avery Bishop, Jerry O'Connell and Jay Mohr. Cameron Crowe wrote and directed the film and produced it with James L. Brooks and Laurence Mark. Released in December 1996, it runs 139 minutes. It followed Crowe's Say Anything... and Singles, and his later films include Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown. Made for about 50 million dollars, it took in roughly 274 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.3 from about 309,000 votes; on TMDB it has 7 from roughly 3,889 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 8 from 89 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to Cameron Crowe, he approved Zellweger because she was the only candidate for the role of Dorothy who definitely wouldn't flirt with Tom Cruise.
- Renée Zellweger admitted that on the day she was cast in the film, she had been out of work for so long that she couldn't even withdraw money from her card because there wasn't enough in the account.
- Writing the script took 3.5 years. When the script was finally ready and filming could begin, its author, Cameron Crowe, decided that Tom Hanks, who had been pre-selected for the lead role, was now too old for it.
- The scene in which the characters played by Tom Cruise and Jonathan Lipnicki first talk in the living room was entirely improvised from beginning to end. Cameron Crowe deliberately didn't write dialogue for this scene, believing that improvisation would allow the actors to play more sincerely.
- Tom Cruise later admitted that he had completely forgotten that Bonnie Hunt also starred in Barry Levinson's drama 'Rain Man' (1988). When Hunt told him they had worked together before, Cruise assumed she was joking.
- It is believed that the film is based on the story of a real sports agent named Lee Steinberg. Steinberg appeared in an episodic role as the agent of football player Troy Aikman (which he actually was). A former partner of Steinberg poached his clients – both in reality and in the film.
- According to Bonnie Hunt, the most difficult thing was playing a character that Tom Cruise didn't like.
- Paula Abdul helped Cuba Gooding Jr. rehearse the dance.
- The roles of Dorothy and Jerry were originally written for Winona Ryder and Tom Hanks. However, it turned out that Hanks was busy filming the comedy “That Thing You Do!” (Tom Hanks, 1996). Ryder could have participated in the project, but she and Tom Cruise looked like siblings on screen, and Renée Zellweger was cast instead.
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