Sports broker writes a report criticizing management techniques, and gets fired (duh! Yea!)

M-A-N-A-G-E-M-E-N-T- RULES!

Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a sports agent whose conscience gets to him. He writes a Mission Statement telling his colleagues how they are going wrong, prints it and distributes it. He gets fired for it.

He manages to keep hold of one client, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr), a nice guy with a bad attitude. Maguire marries Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger) who left with him when he is fired.

"This is a woman's film. With lots of lovely toned shower room butt."

"A triumph of squidgy eyed acting. Nice chin work too, Tom."

"Had me bawling my little ole eyes out in more than one place."

"I learned everything I ever knew about contract negotiations in this movie."

"Cuba Gooding Jr deserves a firm butt Oscar."

"The kid who plays Ray is brilliant. A masterpiece of youngsters in a movie. But should someone so small be frying their little brains by talking on a cell phone like that?"

"I do hope the cruelty to fishies people monitored the obviously edited bit where he gets the fish out of the tank. I have done this before and got water everywhere - my goldfish pouted at me for weeks!"

"I have grown to like Tom Cruise, but the bit when he throws all his arms and legs about to show frustrated anger really annoys me, especially as he did it in the shower room and in theory should have slipped all over the place. I want my money back."

Rod Tidwell curbs his attitude problem and starts to play 'from the heart', as Jerry advises. His team does well, and Tidwell's contract renegotiation position improves so that he is offered a $11.2 million deal with the Arizona Cardinals. It all ends happily ever after, no sunset, but not a dry eye in the house.

One of those movies that everyone quotes from, so one just had to watch it to see what all of the fuss was about.

A witty observance into how ordinary people get stuffed by corporations, and how they can turn the tables to give the corporation a hard stuffing at the end! That 'love conquers all in the end' is clearly the point, but along the way we are transported with considerable wit, jiving of the head and shower room bottoms unencumbered by the merest of towels.

Both a poignant and fruity tale, and he wins in the end, so one should be shouting from the roof tops, I suppose, but, to be honest, one was simply too sad.

The movie is also stuffed to the rafters with superb management advice from a nice-but-crinkly in a suit.

In the butt naked, no towel, post shower position of air drying swing!

Most shower rooms we have ever been in have men waving their willy's about showing off and comparing them with much vigor! This does not happen in this movie, a disappointment.

Lots of nakedness but where did the willy's go? I do hope they paste them back into the DVD.

This movie is a management book romance story. It is a classic because it combines the two genres. Lots of management advice (see the quotes) and witty one liners.

Dogs will like the little boy - a gift of a doggy chew in his image would go down nicely.

Cats will enjoy the lesbian ladies men hating group. It is pretty much how cats talk when they get together to bitch about dogs and humans...

Wolves will enjoy the movie and will spend the next week searching for a blond wig to take after their hero...

Never write a 24 page mission statement, get it professionally printed, bound and distributed to everyone you work with in the time it takes to realize what the hell you have just done. That was some caffeine rush babe!

Far too many. Initially it seems as if our heroes have gotten rid of them, but they come back anyway (even after Jerry tipped them to go away!) and, even more impossibly, they end up at their wedding!

An invisible towel for the authentic all over the body air dry.

There is one moment of all out gorilla style screamy boinkeyness. Enjoy! Watch out for a moment of classic on doorstep pash.

Who has not heard the phrase "Show me the money"? Did it come from this movie, or did this movie just make it world famous?

A wry, witty, romantic, laugh out loud, weepy-sad, movie with pretty much something for everyone, although it is basically a women's movie.

June 1, 2003.