Jerry Maguire (1996)
Directed by Cameron Crowe
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
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When Daniel tells Jason to win Ellie’s heart and to “Do it like the movies… like Jerry Maguire,” one wishes Gormican would have restrained himself from inserting corny proclamations of love at the end that do recall the eye-rolling “You had me at hello” moment from Cameron Crowe’s comedy classic.
In its last 20 minutes, "That Awkward Moment" falls off a bit by doing two things romantic comedies often do, no matter how much we might wish they wouldn't: (1) There are unnecessary complications, with people misbehaving in unexpected ways, just to stretch out the action; and (2) We get one of those public confessions of love, of a kind that no one has done well since " Jerry Maguire ."
So, although writer/director Tom Gormican wants his movie to hearken back to a series of films he has an affinity for (he calls out Jerry Maguire by name), he's aware that the genre has evolved to where copious amounts of profanity and frank sexual talk are expected.
Three male friends make a pact to stay single and play the field in That Awkward Moment, a first-time feature from Tom Gormican that tries to mix Hangover raunch with a heartfelt Jerry Maguire-style romance, in what might be more aptly titled Those Awkward 94 Minutes.
Recently, after watching Jerry Maguire for the first time in years, I complained that they didn’t make middlebrow films like that anymore—that is, smart and satisfying, if somewhat facile, films for grownups.
…or Jerry Maguire in the acting world…
It’s certainly reminiscent of Cuba Gooding and Tom Cruise’s relationship in “Jerry Maguire.”
But at the risk of seeming ungrateful, the way this mashup of Love Story and Jerry Maguire brags about its characters' fantastic sex life is something of a turnoff.
And that's frankly a pity, because there's something sincere and plainspoken at the heart of the film, and you can sense it shooting for the same kind of modern-Zen territory as "Jerry Maguire."
While he's working the foyer - in scenes that recall the real 1996's best film, Jerry Maguire - she crosses the road to a meeting of Parkinson's sufferers.
Tonally, Love and Other Drugs, based on Jamie Reidy’s memoir “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,” strikingly resembles Jerry Maguire.
During a time-out from the tumult of “The Lego Batman Movie,” Bruce Wayne sits at home alone in Wayne Manor on Wayne Island, watching “Jerry Maguire” on TV.
Batman goes back to the Batcave (huge, empty) and up to Wayne Manor (huger, emptier), where he microwaves the Lobster Thermidor that Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) left out for him and watches Jerry Maguire.
He then retreats to his private home theater and watches Jerry Maguire by himself.
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He can be playful, finding unexpected avenues into the character: "You complete me," he purrs to Batman, mockingly borrowing Tom Cruise's classic line from "Jerry Maguire" and dashing all possibilities for the Caped One's imminent retirement.
In his beautifully deranged state of chaos and anarchy, the Joker even utters the cheesy “Jerry Maguire” line “you complete me” to Batman and follows with: “You’re just a freak – like me.
It starred Penelope Cruz and was directed by Alejandro Amenabar, whose feeling for this kind of material is visible in his hit English-language supernatural thriller "The Others."Crowe, on the other hand, as the creator of "Almost Famous" and "Jerry Maguire," is a filmmaker with a gift for intelligent humanism, for infusing his stories with realistic emotion and heart.
For director Cameron Crowe, the man behind Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous , Vanilla Sky represents a groundbreaking career move.
Writer-director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) calls Vanilla Sky a ‘rock and roll cover version’ of Spanish director Alejandro 'The Others’ Amenabar’s original and extremely enjoyable thriller Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes).
For nearly an hour, this is not so different from, say, Crowe and Cruise's "Jerry Maguire".
A remake of a Spanish movie (Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes ), it is unclear what exactly attracted director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) to this material.
Four of her colleagues “Jerry Maguire” with her, but not her trusted protege (“The Newsroom’s” Alison Pill), who tries to make a name for herself by bringing down Sloane.
And so, she pulls a Jerry Maguire and jumps ship to a boutique firm called Peterson Wyatt to work the other side of the gun-control issue.
In what she herself recognizes is a “Jerry Maguire” move, she quits, taking her staff with her — except for Jane (Alison Pill), her closest aide, who opts to stay with the high salary and opportunity for partnership.
The bulk of the story deals with Sloane and her team (many of whom followed her Jerry Maguire -style from her last gig) trying to secure the votes of 60 senators in 84 days to pass gun control legislation, which leads to some dutifully constructed, fast paced, Sorkin-esque walk-and-talks that play out between the warring sides.
Their efforts to shed the devil from Master David Glatzel (Julian Hillard), who sort of resembles Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) from “A Christmas Story” or Ray Boyd (Jonathan Lipnicki) in “Jerry Maguire” (1996), are successful but not entirely.
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Let’s just say that the opening scene takes place in 1995, and the rest of the film, while set in the present, might as well occupy the decade that gave us Sleepless in Seattle, Notting HillandJerry Maguire.
Heidecker puts a hyperbolic spin on the JERRY MAGUIRE-super sports broker trope…