| Jerry Maguire [Region 2] |  | Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell
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Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 139 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165753309
ASIN: B00004CWH8
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1996
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One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, this box-office hit cemented writer-director Cameron Crowe's reputation as "the voice of a generation." Crowe could probably do without that label, but he's definitely in sync with the times with this savvy story about a sports agent (Tom Cruise) whose fall from grace motivates his quest for professional recovery, and the slow-dawning realization that he needs the love and respect of the single mom (Renée Zellweger in her breakthrough role) who has supported him through the worst of times. This is one of Cruise's best, most underrated performances, and in an Oscar-winning role, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the football star who remains Jerry Maguire's only loyal client on a hard road to redemption and personal growth. If that sounds touchy-feely, it is only because Crowe has combined sharp entertainment with a depth of character that is rarely found in mainstream comedy. --Jeff Shannon
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One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, this box-office hit cemented writer-director Cameron Crowe's reputation as "the voice of a generation." Crowe could probably do without that label, but he's definitely in sync with the times with this savvy story about a sports agent (Tom Cruise) whose fall from grace motivates his quest for professional recovery, and the slow-dawning realization that he needs the love and respect of the single mom (Renée Zellweger in her breakthrough role) who has supported him through the worst of times. This is one of Cruise's best, most underrated performances, and in an Oscar-winning role, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the football star who remains Jerry Maguire's only loyal client on a hard road to redemption and personal growth. If that sounds touchy-feely, it is only because Crowe has combined sharp entertainment with a depth of character that is rarely found in mainstream comedy. --Jeff Shannon
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 Jerry Maguire 2 Disc Widescreen Special Edition (1996) March 21, 2010
Haunted Flower (Indianapolis)
"Jerry Maguire" was written and directed by Cameron Crowe who also wrote and directed "Elizabethtown", "Almost Famous", and "Say Anything." It is about a sports agent played by Tom Cruise who in a sudden change of conscience when it comes to his work, ends up losing his job and girlfriend. With his single client, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), he has to find a way back to success and negotiates the biggest deal of his life when a single mother (Renee Zellweger) and her son enter his life.
This is the movie that got Cuba the Oscar in one of the most memorable Oscar moments that I can remember involving a spinning-on-his-head break-dance and shouting that he loved Tom Cruise and others. He truly deserved that Oscar in his performance as Rod Tidwell, the athlete with a huge chip on his shoulder and crazy passion for his family and the "quawn" (his coined term for money). He is so charismatic and loud and emotional and is a huge part of this movie's success. In fact, when I heard someone trying to sing, "Brother, brother, brother..." on American Idol the other night, all I could think of was how Rod Tidwell did it better at Jerry Maguire's wedding. His performance is so great here, it overshadows everyone else. He works amazingly well with Regina King who plays his wife in her defining role as strong family woman. Her emotion for her family always gets me, particularly when Rod gets injured. She is an amazing actress so I found her recent performance in "Our Family Wedding" to be lacking since she doesn't get to have as much power as she normally does.
Tom Cruise really went to the depths of despair as far as he could here with Jerry Maguire. His drunken ramblings here are reminiscent of his drunken ramblings in "A Few Good Men" as well. Jerry Maguire and his competition, Bob Sugar played by Jay Mohr really became the voice of a generation of sports agents the way Gorden Gekko and Bud Fox did for stockbrokers. There are so many amazing fast-talking scenes on the phone that are edited together brilliantly in a flow almost like a dance. Cruise's monologue to the agency after he is fired is peppered with moments of dramatic and comedic brilliance equally, I love it when he takes the loyal goldfish with him.
It is easy to get wrapped up in the relationship between Jerry and Rod but when it comes to Dorothy Boyd, it's something different entirely. There is some great romance here and it's nice to see a more realistic story about a woman giving all the love she can but being strong enough to know when her man isn't yet capable of returning it and stand up for herself. Dorothy's son, Ray played by Jonathan Lipnicki in the most notable breakout role of his career, really charms the audience with being cute. I just IMDBed this kid and I can't believe it, he's 20 now and got contacts apparently, you wouldn't recognize him if you passed him on the street. The reunion scene between Jerry and Dorothy is infamous now and has been quoted time and time again and parodied in such movies as "A Night at the Roxbury" to perfection. Also Bonnie Hunt as Dorothy's "disapproving sister, Laurel" is dead on.
This is a fantastic movie with a great through line of narration that slows down once in a while with the love story but if you focus on the other characters in the movie, you'll really enjoy the ride.
DVD Extras:
Cameron Crowe is nothing if not thorough on this edition of the Jerry Maguire DVD. There is audio in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. There are subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai. Another thorough touch: You can view the ENTIRE mission statement in text form and if you pop Disc 2 into your computer as a DVD-rom extra, you can read the script to the movie.
There is audio commentary by Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding, Jr. AND there is video commentary on Disc 2! This is the first time I've seen video commentary as an option along with audio and I've learned this: while a unique idea, it probably isn't the best idea. They're not using makeup people here and Tom Cruise is wearing the droopiest bucket hat ever and it makes you wonder if he's covering up a hangover. He gets a little loopy as it goes on. They have two different monitors in the room they are viewing the movie on so Cuba is looking one way and the other three are looking the other throughout. They do interact with each other on stories sometimes and Renee and Tom look a little like they want to blush during the love scenes but overall, you don't gain as much as you'd think from this new perspective.
There are deleted scenes with optional director and editor commentary and they look awful. They aren't finished looking, practically like you are watching them with a scratchy VCR and the audio is difficult to hear. The commentary doesn't give many answers except things like "this didn't seem to fit the mood, those poor guys spent 12 hours on that take for nothing" or "this pickle mascot was funny but we took him out." The BEST extended take is getting to see Jay Mohr let loose and go on one really, really long take of being handed phone after phone talking to clients and never losing it. Apparently the director always sent that take to people when they asked about working with Mohr and he would usually get the job as a result. Now Mohr is in a TV series called "Gary Unmarried" and I also reviewed that if you want to check it out.
You can also watch rehearsal footage with optional director commentary and I recommend as with the deleted scenes that you listen to the commentary instead because the audio is difficult to hear and it looks like a VHS tape again here. What you gain from rehearsal footage (which I don't often see on DVDs) is a really raw look at how the actors got from A to B.
There's a cute extra called "My First Commercial" that features Cuba as Rod Tidwell doing a Reebok commercial and it's pretty funny. Bruce Springsteen's "Secret Garden" music video is also on this disc and I remember you couldn't go anywhere that year without that song coming on the radio complete with sound bits from the movie laced in.
There is a making-of featurette that goes into detail about the character of Jerry Maguire and why Tom Cruise who is often viewed as a success wanted to venture off into the world of failure and redemption for a change and how all the actors worked together and what they thought of the project and their characters.
One last interesting extra is Drew Rosenhaus, a sports agent giving a spiel on his life and career and how hungry he has to be as a sports agent to get the job done. It's pretty funny because when it was taped he has a giant cell phone and a super-thick lap top that I bet was pretty impressive at the time. And what extras section wouldn't be complete without a photo gallery and trailers?
 Hey Cuba! January 11, 2010
Michael J. Bachman (clarkston, mi USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hey Cuba! William H. Macy wants his Best Supporting Actor Oscar back for Fargo that you ripped of of him for your "performance" in Jerry Maguire!!
A one of a kind Movie! December 12, 2009
Joseph Heller (MT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great movie that is definately one of the top ten movies of the ninties. I'd say it would be number 4 on the list if not higher. The first time I saw this movie I didn't think it was very good. But then, strangely, the second time I saw it I was blown away. I'm not sure exactly why this happened but I suspect it might be because this movie is an acquired taste. I think some movies might be like that; the first time you see it you don't like it very much but then later your opinion changes drastically. I kind of suspect movies like The Deer Hunter and Midnight Cowboy fit this description. I saw both of these movies and didn't like them very much(well actually I thought The Deer Hunter was okay). But they're supposed to be classics so maybe I'll like these films later in life. Or maybe my opinion just changed because I was more alert.
I won't give you a long summary of the story as I think you all know it by now. Instead I will tell you what's great about this film. First off, the acting is fantastic all around. Tom Cruise gives his best performance as does Renee Zelweger, and Cuba Gooding Jr. is spectacular. This is a very intelligent movie. It's also a one of a kind movie. This is one of the most original movies I've ever seen if not the most.
This movie actually has 3-dimenenial characters unlike a lot of films. A great scene in this movie is when Jerry and Rod are in the locker room and Jerry is trying to get his only client a new contract. Jerry tells him to please get rid of his attitude problem which would help him meet this goal and Rod just responds by saying "do your job." Then Jerry say's "fine" and then Rod says "quit telling me to dance" and Jerry responds "fine" again. And then Rod says something along those same lines again and Jerry yells "fine! fine! fine!" and starts kicking the wall repeatedly. At the beginning of this film we see Jerry as a smooth, handsome guy who has it all and then later we see his vulnerable side. We see different sides of Dorthy Boyd(Renee) and Rod Tidwell as well. For most of the movie we only see Rod as a cocky loud mouth but at the end we see a whole new side to him when he's in tears in front of a national T.V audience.
Some people didn't like this movie. To those people I advise you to watch it again sometime. Some people on here did like it but didn't tell what actually made this film great.
Deconstructing Tom Cruise and Rebuilding Him as a Human Being October 24, 2009
James A. Strong (Atlanta, Georgia United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At the beginning of "Jerry Maguire," from writer/director Cameron Crowe starring Tom Cruise as the title character, the audience is clued into the fact that they are watching a tear-jerker that has its main character questioning his place in life. Crowe does this by having Jerry, a slick, fast-talking sports agent write a 25-page mission statement criticizing the shallowness and materialism inherent in his profession and distribute it to everyone in his office. Jerry's epiphany is one which he wants to share and broadcast, as if to reclaim his human decency that he surrendered when he became an agent. At the moment when Jerry distributes his own personal tract, Crowe seems to be declaring that the movie will be a Road Less Traveled-kind of exploration of self that finds its protagonist struggling to become the best person he can be; it's as if, having announced his lofty message within the film's first few minutes, he's daring the audience not to cry for the character he has created. Strangely enough, this bold and unorthodox move proves to be, over the next two-and-a-half hours, both the film's saving grace and its biggest vice.
Crowe's canniest and most compelling feat in this film is that he plays off of the audience's consciousness of Cruise's previous roles and screen personas without playing into them by deconstructing him right before our eyes. Jerry's ersatz declaration of principles earns the admiration of his co-workers for a few brief moments before they dismiss the act as a foolishly brave wake-up call to himself in a business where it is necessary to enter the fever-dream world of consumerism as one of the febrile sleepwalkers if one wishes to succeed. As a result, he loses his job and the majority of his clients in humiliating fashion.
Trying to keep his newfound integrity intact while scraping for his dignity, Jerry desperately searches for as many pillars of stability as he can find. He musters a respectable amount through his relationships with his hopelessly smitten, single-mother secretary, Dorothy Boyd, (played with doe-eyed sadness by Renee Zellweger) and Rod Tidwell, an arrogant wide receiver (a splendidly scene-stealing Cuba Gooding, Jr.) who proves to be Jerry's only loyal client. He clings to them for moral support, while still trying to act like the smooth character he was not so long ago; he becomes alternately self-absorbed and self-pitying. Most of the time, when Jerry goes overboard with his spells of introspection, someone, usually Rod, says something to snap him out of them, and it is usually a fairly necessary reality check. Crowe manages to let Jerry voice his indignation quite frequently while making sure that the audience doesn't roll their eyes too much at his lamentations because someone onscreen usually does it for them.
Crowe's quirky knack for romantic comedies illustrated in earlier efforts, such as "Say Anything..." and "Singles," is on display here as well. The relationship between Jerry and Dorothy pans out to be a tragi-comedy of errors that finds each of them leaning on the other for support. The two lovers, like those of his earlier films, are people with big hopes and dreams for true love compromised by the harsh realities of their everyday lives. They are people who, at a glance, seem as though they will succumb to the Capra-esque, devil-may-care whims when given the right chance. Unlike other filmmakers, who follow the all-too-familiar machinations of saccharine-sweet Hollywood romanticism, Crowe lets them have their moments of joy and love, only to bring them crashing back down to earth to struggle with the same dilemmas that ordinary people face in relationships. He shows us the pregnant silences and the awkward moments that the characters would do anything to change if they could. Crowe's dialogue and direction for moments such as these are remarkably incisive. Thankfully, "Jerry Maguire" has its share of them, proving that this gift is as intact as ever.
Undoubtedly, after watching Jerry Maguire, some viewers who accepted Crowe's dare not to cry will walk away with their cynical attitudes unchanged. Indeed, there are moments when the drama becomes a little too touchy-feely and the film veers into the clichés of the average romantic comedy. But, for every moment that it spends pulling at the wrong heart-strings, "Jerry Maguire" has a few that pull at the right ones. It was also Cruise's best role since his underrated turn in "Rain Man." He steps up to the challenge of lampooning his screen persona and attempting to show his soul quite nicely. If nothing else, "Jerry Maguire" should be remembered as the first (but hopefully not the only) film in which he showed that there was a human being lurking behind that priceless smile and enticingly narcissistic swagger.
This is a Classic Movie October 22, 2009
J. Healy
Jerry Maguire is a classic movie not only because of classic lines like "show me the money" or "you had me at hello." It is a classic because it has an inspiring message for everyone competing in the rat race. While Cruise was nominated for best actor and the film was nominated for best picture, Cuba Gooding Jr. fittingly won the Oscar for best supporting actor. He played pro football player Rod Tidwell, who like Jerry Maguire, his agent, is a cocky competitor. This attitude gets in the way of him playing with his heart and being the authentic person he was meant to be in his vocation. In Tidwell's case, it's football. For Maguire, it's being a sports agent. In your vocation, are you being authentically yourself, competing with a set of principles that guard your heart? Or, is it all "show me the money"? Has your lack of principles and drive to win caused you cut corners such that your conscience has been seared? In other words, has the rat race made you a rat? Jerry made the soul searching leap of faith that turned his life around and upside down. As a result, he was rejected, embarrassed, and defeated by his "closest" friends. But in the process, he discovered two new real friends (Dorothy Boyd, his assistant, played by Renee Zelwigger, and Tidwell). Together they made it to freedom. What a great flick!!!
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