Jerry Maguire

About Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Renée Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe.

Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a sports agent working for Sports Management International (SMI). After suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of stress and a guilty conscience, he writes a mission statement about perceived dishonesty in the sports management business and how he believes that it should be operated. His fellow employees are touched by his honesty and greet him with applause the next business day but the company management orders Maguire fired for his actions.

The management sends Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Maguire's protégé, to fire Maguire. Jerry and Bob then proceed to call all of their existing clients to try to convince them to not hire the services of the other. Jerry gets through to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), one of his clients who is disgruntled by his contract that he believes to be far inferior than that of his teammates. Tidwell tests Jerry's resolve through a very long telephone conversation, which culminates in the famed "Show Me the Money!" telephone yelling match between Rod and Jerry. Meanwhile, Bob Sugar secures most of Jerry's previous clients as his own. Leaving the office, Jerry announces he will start his own sports management agency and asks if anyone is willing to join him to which only single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger) agrees. Boyd had previously bumped into Maguire in the airport and told him personally how inspiring she found his "memo". As the two of them attempt to operate a sports agency together, Jerry becomes closer to her young son, Ray, and eventually starts a relationship with Dorothy.