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The poster for âJerry Maguireâ is pictured.
While there are a few New Year’s movies out there, I didn’t feel like reviewing one for this week’s “Throwback Thursday” column. After a month of Christmas movie reviews, I thought I’d go off the board and review one of my all-time favorites 1996’s “Jerry Maguire.”
If you’ve never seen “Jerry Maguire,” you are in for a treat.
The plot centers around Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), a sports agent who seems shallow on the surface. However, on the road at a conference one night, Jerry comes up with a mission statement. He says that sports agents need “fewer clients and less money.” His mission statement promptly gets him fired from his high-paying job. Jerry recruits Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) to leave her job as an accountant and follow him, though he has just one client, a prima donna NFL wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.).