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Jerry Maguire
1996
****
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Regina King, Bonnie Hunt

Jerry Maguire is a high-flying sports agent who rediscovers his conscience. He loses his job, and as he tries to hold on to his last remaining client, a cocky and difficult football player (Cuba Gooding Jr. in an amusing Oscar winning performance), he begins to fall in love with a young single mother. Cameron Crowe's romantic drama comedy is long but very enjoyable, and Tom Cruise gives one of his warmest performances in the lead. In the beginning, Jerry realises that money isn't everything, but by the end of the story it actually is.