Jerry Maguire Page #2

Synopsis: When slick sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) has a crisis of conscience, he pens a heartfelt company-wide memo that promptly gets him fired. Desperate to hang on to the athletes that he represents, Jerry starts his own management firm, with only single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) joining him in his new venture. Banking on their sole client, football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry and Dorothy begin to fall in love as they struggle to make their business work.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: TriStar Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 41 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
1996
139 min
1,662 Views


The Little Boy looks confused. As Calvin Nack turns to grab

an orange juice from a barmaid, Jerry smoothly dishes off a

business card to the little boy.

JERRY'S VOICE

Lately, it's gotten worse.

INT. HOSPITAL BEDROOM -- NIGHT

Hockey Player STEVE REMO, 33, is a big man in a small bed.

He is in traction, with concussion. DOCTOR stands nearby,

shoots Jerry a look of concern. Family is nearby.

DOCTOR:

Do you know your name?

STEVE REMO:

I uh... wait. Wait, here it

comes. I have it. My name is

Steve Remo. I play for the

Blackhawks.

(now on a roll)

You are my son. This pretty lady

is my wife. And you are...

Jerry nods encouragingly, presents his best "familiar" face.

STEVE REMO:

(continuing)

My agent!

JERRY:

Yes!

STEVE REMO:

And I gotta play this weekend,

Doc. If I play in 65% of the

games, I make my bonus.

EXT. HOSPITAL HALLWAY -- NIGHT

Remo's 14 year-old SON (JESSE) confronts Jerry outside the

hospital room. He's a hulking kid, a Pop Warner football

player himself. His voice is in the process of changing.

_

6.

SON:

This is his fourth concussion.

Shouldn't somebody get him to stop?

As he talks, Jerry's cellular phone rings in his bag.

JERRY:

(glib, easy)

Come on -- it'd take a tank to

stop your dad. It would take all

five Super Trooper VR Warriors,

right?

The kid stares at Maguire. It feels as if the kid is peering

into his soul... and all he sees is trash.

SON:

F*** you.

The kid turns and exits in disgust. He leaves Jerry standing

in the hallway. Devastated. Music.

EXT. RENTAL CAR SHUTTLE -- DAY

Jerry Maguire upset in a rental shuttle. Passing through

frame. Music. Phone still ringing.

INT. MIAMI HOTEL ROOM -- DAY

Jerry sleeps.

JERRY'S VOICE

Two nights later in Miami at our

corporate conference, a

breakthrough. Breakdown?

Breakthrough.

Jerry's eyes open. Breathing strangely. Trembling, he holds

onto the nightstand for grounding.

He gets up, takes a few gulps of air, walks to mini-bar.

Gathers some tiny ice cubes in his hand, smears them across

his face. This feeling is new to him.

JERRY'S VOICE

(continuing)

It was the oddest, most unexpected

thing. I began writing what they

call a Mission Statement for my

company. You know -- a Mission

Statement -- a suggestion for the

future.

_

7.

INT. MIAMI HOTEL ROOM -- NIGHT

Jerry types, a pot of coffee and tray of room service nearby.

we watch his face, alive now.

There is a direct line from the deepest part of him to the

words he's typing. His fingers fly. Even his eyes grow

moist.

JERRY'S VOICE

What started out as one page

became twenty-five. Suddenly I was

my father's son. I was

remembering the simple pleasures

of this job, how I ended up here

out of law school, the way a

stadium sounds when one of my

players performs well on the

field... I was remembering even

the words of the late Dicky Fox,

the original sports agent, who

said:

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Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter and journalist. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes. more…

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