And somewhere along in there I began tofeel that writer-director Cameron Crowe had bitten off more than he reallyneeded to chew.
Rod'swife Marcee ( Regina King) is her husband's shrewdest defender and biggest fan,and their marriage is a true love story-in contrast to Maguire's failingengagement to the power-mad Avery Bishop ( Kelly Preston).Īveryis soon out of the picture, Dorothy begins to look less like an accountant andmore like the most wonderful woman in the world, and under the influence of hisennobling new feelings, Jerry helps Rod learn to play from the heart and notjust from the mind and the pocketbook. That's RodTidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a wide receiver for Arizona, who resents the crappywaterbed commercials Maguire puts him in, but sticks with him anyway. Onlyone client doesn't dump Maguire when the agency boots him out. Someone should tell them that resentmentis just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. Thesisters live together in a house where the living room seems to be semipermanently filled by a kvetching self-help group for divorced women, who spendall of their time talking about men. Shealso has an outspoken older sister, played by Bonnie Hunt with her usualexuberance and ironic cheer (she's almost always a delight to watch). Dorothy is a widow with a cute little son (maybe just a mitetoo cute). But when he asks who's walking out with him, only Dorothy,an accountant he's met just once at the airport, stands up and says shebelieves in him. Maguirestages a grandstand exit (his decision to take along the office goldfish playsawkwardly, however). One night he has a panic attack ina lonely hotel room, and writes a memo titled “The Things We Think and Do NotSay: The Future of Our Business.” One of the things he thinks is that agentsshould be less concerned about money and more concerned about their clients.That gets him a standing ovation in the office, but a few days later, when he'sfired, he understands why agents do not say those things they think. Hespends most of his time as a road warrior, one of those dogged joggers you seein airports, racking up the frequent flyer miles in pursuit of the excellencethey read about in pin brained best-sellers. Theman she follows, and loves, is Jerry Maguire ( Tom Cruise), a high-powered prosports agent who has so many clients he can't really care about any of them.
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