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Jerry Maguire is a film that tells the story of a professional sports agent, Jerry Maguire, whose crisis of faith leads him to write a memorandum that advocates better service, fewer clients, and less focus on the bottom line. After he distributes the memo to his fellow agents, it gets him fired from his high-profile job. He decides to form his own agency, but is only able to convince one of his clients (played by Gooding) to stay with him, and a single employee (played by Renée Zellweger) to join his new company.

Gooding won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rod Tidwell, the football player who sticks with Maguire; Cruise was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Though she won no awards for her part in Jerry Maguire, it was Zellweger's breakout role. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture; crew members on the film were nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Film Editing.

Jerry Maguire remains famous more than a decade on due to the extremely memorable quotes, largely attributed to Crowe, that have defined contemporary cinema.

Plot

Famous quotations

:Jerry Maguire: "What can I do for YOU, Rod? " :Rod Tidwell: "It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready? Just checking to make sure you're ready (Rod turns his boom box real low) here it is -- show me the money. (He now blasts the boom box at full level) OHHH!!!! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! Doesn't it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry? Say it with me one time brother! " :Maguire: "Show you the money. " :Tidwell: "Oh, come on, you can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line I better hear you say it! " :Maguire: "Yeah, yeah - no, show you the money! " :Tidwell: "AH! Not show YOU! Show ME the money! " :Maguire: "Show me the money! " :Tidwell: "Yeah, that's it brother but you got to yell that shit! " :Maguire: "Show me the money! " :Tidwell: "Louder! " :Maguire: "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"

:Jerry: "I love you. You... complete me." :Dorothy: "Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'."

:Dicky Fox: "The key to this business is personal relationships."

:Dicky Fox: "If this is empty, this doesn't matter."

:Dicky Fox: "Hey... I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success."

Trivia

Actresses portraying ex-girlfriends of Maguire include Alison Armitage
, Lucy Liu
, Emily Procter
, and Stacey Williams
. Reagan Gomez-Preston
also had a minor role in the movie.

Tom Hanks
was originally offered the title role, but turned it down.

The movie features a character, "Bob Sugar," who is based in large part on Drew Rosenhaus, one of the National Football League's most aggressive sports agents who is currently in the news for allegedly getting one of his main clients, Terrell Owens fired for making outlandish requests that the Philadelphia Eagles revise his contract mid-season.

The Maguire character is based on Leigh Steinberg who had a cameo at the end of the movie

The film featured then-New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe as himself.

Cuba Gooding Jr. reportedly said that director Cameron Crowe requested recording the famous loud "SHOW ME THE MONEY" scene through the phone while Gooding was stuck in Los Angeles traffic, and he kept yelling all the way through onto the studio leaving a crowd of people confused.

Soundtrack

In the bedroom scene when Jerry asks Dorothy (Renée Zellweger), "What is that music?" the music is "Haitian Fight Song" from the album The Clown by Charles Mingus.

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