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Jerry, of course, soon begins dating Dorothy, whose young son Ray (Jonathan Lipnicki), was part of the 1990s trend of cute movie kids who spout endless catchphrases.
For this, he’s fired from his agency but goes on to launch a new one, with just one client (Gooding’s wide receiver Rod Tidwell), and one employee, single mother Dorothy (Zellwegger.) An even bigger challenge was finding a charismatic hero in the reputedly sleazy world of sports agencies.Ĭruise, somehow only 34 at the time, played the titular character, a top sports agent, who at the movie’s beginning has a crisis of conscience that leads him to write a deeply honest manifesto about the trouble with their business. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire was based in part on the life of Leigh Steinberg, the super-agent who represented most of the top NFL quarterbacks in the 1980s and ’90s. The film was what used to be called a multi-quadrant hit, the kind of film that has football to draw the men in, and romance for the ladies. The film, which landed in theaters 25 years ago this week in December of 1996, was one of the most popular and important romantic comedies of the 1990s, one which featured Tom Cruise at the height of his powers, an Oscar-winning turn from Cuba Gooding, Jr., and introduced Renee Zellweger to the world, at least to those who didn’t catch her name when they saw Dazed and Confusedthree years earlier. If Jerry Maguire were made in the present day, there’s a question that would undoubtedly be asked about it: Why is it about the agent and not the player?