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- 19 "I Just Want to Be inspired."
- 18 "You Are Hanging on by A Very Thin Thread and I Dig That About You!"
- 17 "The Key to This Business Is Personal relationships."
- 16 "It's Not 'Show Friends.' It's Show *Business*."
- 15 "Breakdown? No, breakthrough."
- 14 "That's How You Become Great, Man. Hang Your Balls Out there."
- 13 “Just Jump Right Into My Nightmare, The Water Is warm.”
- 12 "I Was 35. I Had Started My life."
- 10 "I Think in This Age, Optimism Is A Revolutionary Act."
- 8 "It Wasn't Just About The Money, Was It? Was It… Was It?"
Dorothy Boyd
The rom-com mixed with a sports story is an interesting concept for Jerry Maguirewhich works surprisingly well because of how it treats Jerry and Dorothy’s relationship. While audiences are rooting for them from the beginning, it also becomes clear that these two may have been rushing things and it is evident in Dorothy’s heartbreaking admission. She balances the fact that Jerry genuinely cares for her son Ray while recognizing that the same love might not be there between her and Jerry. She...
Rod Tidwell
When Jerry loses all of his clients, the one man who stands with him is Rod Tidwell, an arrogant yet overlooked football player with an eccentric view of the business. Rod wants money and success in his short time as a professional athlete and pushes Jerry to make it happen for him. However, he also seems to like the underdog quality of Jerry when he loses everything. When Jerry makes a passionate and desperate plea to get Rod to recognize the difficult position they are in, Rod only responds...
Dicky Fox
Throughout the movie, the audience is shown glimpses of Jerry Maguire’s sports agentmentor, Dicky Fox. He shares pearls of wisdom and advice he has learned over the course of his career. The one that seems to resonate the most with Jerry is the idea of personal relationships within the sports agent world and perhaps a lesson that Jerry forgot as he continued to become more successful. However, Dicky’s lesson becomes more important to the overall story not only in how he works with Rod but als...
Bob Sugar
Most movies need a villain and Bob Sugar fills that role inJerry Maguire. He is a fellow agent at Jerry’s firm who takes great pleasure in letting Jerry know that he is fired and then subsequently taking the high profile clients from Jerry. Bob is an easy character to dislike and the movie makes it clear that he represents the polar opposite of Jerry’s idealistic view of the profession. This Jerry Maguirequote from Sugar solidifies his more heartless approach which makes Jerry’s attempts to b...
Jerry Maguire
The opening of Jerry Maguirefinds the titular sports agent at the top of his game while also seeing himself as "just another shark in a suit." Reflection causes him to re-evaluate his job and how he should operate in it. He begins writing a mission statement about these feelings, seeing it as a breakthrough moment. But his questioning of whether it is a breakdown or breakthrough haunts him for a long time after as he finds himself regretting ever putting those thoughts out there in the world.
Jesus of CopyMat
Jerry's guilt-ridden mission statement about what the world of sports agencies could be is what gets the story moving. Jerry is taking a risk by writing this mission statement, and it ultimately is what causes him to get fired from the company. However, when he goes to make copies of it, the copy clerk (Jerry Cantrell), simply credited as "Jesus of CopyMat", gives him some words of encouragement. Jerry finding wisdom in this random man is funny as it shows him getting perhaps too caught up in...
Jerry Maguire
Jerry's attempt to break up with his fiancée Avery (Kelly Preston) does not go smoothly, to say the least. After attempting to speak to her with emotional honesty in line with his new mission statement, Jerry is left with the cold hard realization that Avery only cares about making the sale. This is evidently not what Jerry was hoping to hear based on this hilarious Jerry Maguire quote, but this soon pales in comparison to the problems Jerry faces when he actually breaks up with Avery moments...
Jerry Maguire
The movie starts in a very exciting way with the creation of the mission statement and the reaction to it. It wasn't until later in life that Jerry Maguire was finally able to start his life and live by his own rules. Sometimes life requires a big leap in order to finally start really living. Something had been missing in Jerry's life for a long time, both in his career and in his romantic relationship. Once he started to be honest with his desires and actually went after them, he was able to...
Dorothy Boyd
As Jerry states towards the very end of the film, "we live in a cynical, cynical world". Dorothy (Renée Zellweger) must agree with this because she tells Jerry that she thinks in this day and age any form of positivity must be revolutionary. The mission statement that Jerry created is what inspired Dorothy to quit her job and join him. It helped a lot that she was extremely attracted to him, possibly even in love with him from the very start. She admires the direction that Jerry wants to take...
Jerry Maguire
It's not hard to see why Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Rodbecame the standout character. He is a fun and energetic presence but is also a flawed enough character that he is more interesting than the audience might expect. When Jerry tries to make Rod a more passionate and engaged player, he attempts to appeal to Rod's childhood memories of the sport and his heroes of the game. He points out that when he was younger, Rod's love of football was not about the money, but when Rod fails to answer, Jerry star...
- Colin Mccormick
Jerry Maguire: Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston. When a sports agent 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 his former colleague.
- Cameron Crowe
- 2 min
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Dec 13, 2021 · “‘Help me help you’ I guess is one that I use a lot,” he said. “I dare you to show me a more quotable film than ‘Jerry Maguire.’ And, by the way, (it's) not just one character making ...
When slick sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) has a crisis of conscience, he pens a heartfelt company-wide memo that promptly gets him fired. Desperate to hang on to the athletes that he ...
