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Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe, and stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, and Regina King. Produced in part by long time The Simpsons producer James L. Brooks, it was inspired by sports agent Leigh Steinberg, who acted as technical consultant on the crew and his client Tim McDonald during the 1993 NFL Free Agency. In addition, a 28-page memo distributed at Disney in 1991 written by Jeffrey Katzenberg provided inspiration for the film. It was released in North American theaters on December 13, 1996, produced by Gracie Films and distributed by TriStar Pictures.

The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised its performances and screenplay. It was also a financial success, grossing more than $273 million worldwide against its $50 million budget. It was the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1996. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Tom Cruise, with Cuba Gooding Jr. winning Best Supporting Actor. It also received nominations for three Golden Globes, with Cruise winning for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, with Gooding winning Best Supporting Actor.

Plot

Jerry Maguire is a glossy 35-year-old sports agent working for Sports Management International (SMI). After criticism from an injured player s son triggers a life-altering epiphany, he writes a mission statement about perceived dishonesty in the sports management business and his desire to work with fewer clients to produce a better, more caring personal relationship with them. In turn, SMI management sends Bob Sugar, Jerry s protégé, to fire him. Consequently, Jerry and Sugar each call all of Jerry s clients to try to convince them not to hire the services of the other. Jerry speaks to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell, one of his clients who is disgruntled with his contract. He needs a $10 million contract for his family to live on. Jerry informs him if he gets injured for the season, he will get no money from the Cardinals. Rod tests Jerry s resolve through a very long telephone conversation, while Sugar persuades the rest of Jerry s clients to stick with SMI.

Leaving the office, Jerry announces that he will start his own agency and asks if anyone will join him, to which only 26-year-old single mother Dorothy Boyd agrees. Frank Cush Cushman, a superstar quarterback prospect who expects to be the number one pick in the NFL Draft, initially also stays with Jerry after he makes a visit to the Cushman home. However, Sugar persuades Cushman and his father to sign with SMI over Jerry the night before the draft.

After an argument, Jerry breaks up with his disgruntled fiancée Avery. He then turns to Dorothy, becoming closer to her young son, Ray, and starts a relationship with her. Dorothy contemplates moving to San Diego as she has a secure job offer there; however, she and Jerry get married. Jerry concentrates all his efforts on Rod, now his only client, who turns out to be very difficult to satisfy. Over the next several months, the two direct harsh criticism towards each other with Rod claiming that Jerry is not trying hard enough to get him a contract while Jerry claims that Rod is not proving himself worthy of the money for which he asks; one point of contention is that Rod is not very likable and comes across as aloof to the fans. Rod takes Jerry s advice to prove he is worthy of his contract. Rod is playing well and his team is winning. Jerry s marriage with Dorothy deteriorates and they separate.

During a December Monday Night Football game between the Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys, Rod plays well but appears to receive a serious injury when catching a winning touchdown, securing a spot for the Cardinals in the playoffs. He recovers and dances for the wildly cheering crowd. Afterwards, Jerry and Rod embrace in front of other athletes and sports agents and show how their relationship has progressed from a strictly business one to a close personal one, which was one of the points Jerry made in his mission statement. He then flies back home to meet Dorothy, telling her that he loves her and wants her in his life, which she reciprocates. Rod appears on Roy Firestone s sports show. Unbeknownst to him, Jerry has secured him an $11.2 million contract with the Cardinals, allowing him to finish his pro football career in Arizona. The emotional Rod proceeds to thank everyone and extends warm gratitude to Jerry. Jerry speaks with several other pro athletes, some of whom have read his earlier mission statement and respect his work with Rod.

One day, Ray throws a baseball up in the air, surprising Jerry, who then discusses Ray s possible future career in the sports industry with Dorothy.

Cast

  • Tom Cruise as Gerald Jerry Maguire
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod Tidwell
  • Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd
  • Kelly Preston as Avery Bishop
  • Jerry O Connell as Frank Cush Cushman
  • Jay Mohr as Bob Sugar
  • Bonnie Hunt as Laurel Boyd
  • Regina King as Marcee Tidwell
  • Jonathan Lipnicki as Ray Boyd
  • Todd Louiso as Chad the Nanny
  • Jeremy Suarez as Tyson Tidwell
  • Jared Jussim as Dicky Fox
  • Jann Wenner as Scully
  • Ali Wentworth as Bobbi Fallon
  • Aries Spears as Teepee Tidwell
  • Kelly Coffield as Jan
  • Winnie Holzman and Hynden Walch as members of the women s group
  • Glenn Frey as Dennis Wilburn
  • Donal Logue as Rick (Junior Agent)
  • Tom Gallop as Ben
  • Angela Goethals as Kathy Sanders
  • Rick Johnson as John Swenson
  • Jerry Cantrell as Jesus of CopyMat
  • Toby Huss as Steve Remo
  • Drake Bell as Jesse Remo
  • Christine Cavanaugh as Mrs. Remo
  • Eric Stoltz as Ethan Valhere
  • Brent Barry as Calvin Nack
  • Theo Greenly as Hootie Fan
  • Jerry Ziesmer as Trainer
  • Anthony Natale as Elevator Couple
  • Reagan Gomez-Preston as Tidwell s Cousin
  • Lucy Liu, Justina Vail Evans, Samantha Smith, Ivana Miličević, Lisa Stahl, Emily Procter, Stacey Williams, Lisa Ann Hadley, Alison Armitage and Rebecca Rigg as Former Girlfriends
  • Beau Bridges as Matt Cushman (uncredited)
  • Barry Switzer as himself (uncredited)

As Themselves

  • Roy Firestone
  • Al Michaels
  • Dan Dierdorf
  • Frank Gifford
  • Mel Kiper Jr.
  • Jeffrey Lurie
  • Drew Rosenhaus
  • Rich Kotite
  • Tim McDonald
  • Mike Tirico
  • Wayne Fontes
  • Mike White
  • Johnnie Morton
  • Rick Mirer
  • Drew Bledsoe
  • Rob Moore
  • Ki-Jana Carter
  • Herman Moore
  • Art Monk
  • Troy Aikman
  • Katarina Witt
  • Dean Biasucci
  • Warren Moon
  • Kerry Collins
  • Erica Sorgi
  • Dallas Malloy
  • Jim Irsay

Cameron Crowe originally wrote the screenplay for Tom Hanks. Crowe took so long to write the screenplay that by the time the film was ready to be made, he felt Hanks was too old to play the part. Woody Harrelson was offered the role, but turned it down. Rod Tidwell was partially modeled after Charley Taylor.

Janet Jackson auditioned and was initially accepted for the role of Marcee Tidwell, though it later went to Regina King, who previously co-starred in Janet Jackson s debut film Poetic Justice. Jackson is referenced twice in the film, with a Janet poster seen hanging in Teepee s room and Cuba Gooding Jr. s character Rod Tidwell asking What Have You Done for Me Lately? , paying homage to Jackson s hit of the same name.

Artie Lange filmed a scene for the movie but was edited out of the final cut.

Patricia Arquette, Kate Beckinsale, Bridget Fonda, Winona Ryder, Marisa Tomei, Cameron Diaz, Uma Thurman and Jennifer Lopez were all considered for the part of Dorothy. Mira Sorvino was also considered for Dorothy but the producers would not meet her quote. The producers also considered Janeane Garofalo for the role of Dorothy but she was deemed too old for the part. Connie Britton auditioned for the role of Dorothy. Damon Wayans and Mykelti Williamson were considered for the role of Rod Tidwell. Jamie Foxx unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Rod Tidwell. Diane Lane was considered for the role of Avery Bishop; however, the role was eventually given to Kelly Preston. Billy Wilder was considered for the part of Jerry s mentor Dicky Fox.

Product placement

TriStar received merchandise and marketing services of over $1.5 million from Reebok in exchange for incorporating a commercial into the film and depicting the Reebok brand within certain agreed-upon standards; when the film was theatrically released, the commercial had been left out and a tirade including broadsides against Reebok was included. When the film aired on television, the Reebok commercial had been embedded into the film as originally agreed upon. The Special Edition DVD release of the film, which has the film s theatrical edit, includes the commercial as bonus content.

Release

Box office

Jerry Maguire debuted at number one. It earned $17,084,296 its opening weekend, and eventually grossed $153,952,592 in North American box office and approximately $119.6 million internationally for a $273,552,592 worldwide total, on a budget of $50 million. It is the ninth top-grossing film of 1996 and the fourth highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, Jerry Maguire has an approval rating of 84% based on reviews from 84 critics, with an average score of 7.80/10. Its consensus states: Anchored by dazzling performances from Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Renée Zellweger, as well as Cameron Crowe s tender direction, Jerry Maguire meshes romance and sports with panache. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale.

Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rod Tidwell, the Arizona Cardinals football player who sticks with Maguire. Cruise was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the movie marked Renée Zellweger s breakout role. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture, and crew members on the film were nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing awards.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, writing that there are so many subplots that Jerry Maguire seems too full and also commented that the film starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heartwarmer. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance, Jerry Maguire runs an unusual pattern on its way to scoring an unexpected number of emotional, social and entertaining points. Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe s shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles…

Former Green Bay Packers vice president Andrew Brandt stated that the film accurately portrayed the cutthroat nature of the agent business, especially the lengths to which agents will go to retain or pilfer clients. It also captured the financial, emotional and psychological investment that goes far beyond negotiating contracts.

Accolades

Association Category Recipient Result
20/20 Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Cameron Crowe Nominated
Best Song Secret GardenBruce Springsteen Nominated
Academy Awards Best Picture James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark and Richard Sakai Nominated
Best Actor Tom Cruise Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Cameron Crowe Nominated
Best Film Editing Joe Hutshing Nominated
American Comedy Awards Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films Nancy Wilson Won
Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Motion Picture James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark and Richard Sakai Nominated
Best Director Cameron Crowe Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role Tom Cruise Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Cuba Gooding Jr. Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Renée Zellweger Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Cameron Crowe Nominated
Best Film Editing Joe Hutshing Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Actor – Comedy/Romance Tom Cruise Won
Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy/Romance Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy/Romance Renée Zellweger Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Most Promising Actress Renée Zellweger Nominated
Critics Choice Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Actor Tom Cruise Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Best Child Performance Jonathan Lipnicki Won
Breakthrough Artist Renée Zellweger Won
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Cameron Crowe Nominated
Empire Awards Best Director Won
European Film Awards Screen International Award Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor Tom Cruise Runner-up
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Tom Cruise Won (returned)
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Cuba Gooding Jr. Nominated
Hochi Film Awards Best Foreign Language Film Cameron Crowe Won
Humanitas Prize Awards Feature Film Nominated
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards Best Sound Editing – ADR Won
MTV Movie Awards Best Movie Nominated
Best Male Performance Tom Cruise Won
Best Breakthrough Performance Renée Zellweger Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards Best Video from a Film Secret Garden – Bruce Springsteen Nominated
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Cuba Gooding Jr. Nominated
National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films 10th Place
Best Actor Tom Cruise Won
Breakthrough Performance Renée Zellweger Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Supporting Actress Runner-up
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor Tom Cruise Runner-up
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Comedy/Musical Picture James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark and Richard Sakai Nominated
Best Actor Tom Cruise Nominated
Best Comedy/Musical Actor Won
Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Cameron Crowe Nominated
Best Adapted Song Secret Garden – Bruce Springsteen Nominated
PEN Center USA West Literary Awards Screenplay Cameron Crowe Won
People s Choice Awards Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Won
Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Tom Cruise Won
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Renée Zellweger Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Tom Cruise Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Cuba Gooding Jr. Won
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Renée Zellweger Nominated
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Cameron Crowe Nominated
Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film – Actor Age Ten or Under Jonathan Lipnicki Won
YoungStar Awards Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film Nominated

The film s screenplay was later voted the 66th greatest ever written in a poll by the Writers Guild of America.

Home media

Jerry Maguire was first released on VHS and Laserdisc on May 29, 1997. It is the best-selling non-Disney VHS tape of all time, with over 3 million copies sold on the first day and another 1 million on the second day and sold 1 million copies each day, including Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and many other rental stores/retail chains. The previews shown before the movie were My Best Friend s Wedding, Men in Black and Starship Troopers. It was re-released on VHS around late 1999, without any of the aforementioned previews.

The film was first released onto DVD on June 24, 1997 and around 2002 respectively in both a standard edition and a two-disc Special Edition . While the standard edition contains no special features, the two-disc edition primarily includes deleted scenes, commentary tracks, featurettes, and a music video for Bruce Springsteen s Secret Garden. The film was later released onto Blu-ray on September 9, 2008, with the same special features found on the second disc of the DVD Special Edition. in 2008, The film was triple packed with A Few Good Men and Born on the Fourth of July by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in United Kingdom only. The film was double featured with Cliffhanger via DVD in 2008, and again double featured with A Few Good Men via DVD on December 29, 2009. Jerry Maguire was chosen to be released in 4k as part of the Columbia Classics Collection: vol. 1 alongside Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, and A League of Their Own on June 16, 2020. Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 1 4K Blu-ray (UPDATED)

Legacy

Jerry Maguire spawned several popular quotations, including Show me the money! (shouted repeatedly in a phone exchange between Rod Tidwell and Jerry Maguire), You complete me (similar to you shall complete me and I you from Star Trek s Who Mourns for Adonis ), Help me help you, The key to this business is personal relationships and You had me at hello (said by Renée Zellweger s Dorothy Boyd after a lengthy romantic plea by Jerry Maguire), and Kwan, a word used by Cuba Gooding Jr. s Tidwell meaning love, respect, community, and money (also spelled quan and quawn ) to illustrate the difference between himself and other football players: Other football players may have the coin, but they won t have the Kwan . These lines are largely attributed to Cameron Crowe, director and screenwriter of the film. Zellweger said of filming the famous hello line, Cameron had me say it a few different ways. It s so funny, because when I read it, I didn t get it – I thought it was a typo somehow. I kept looking at it. It was the one thing in the script that I was looking at going, Is that right? Can that be right? How is that right? I thought, Is there a better way to say that? Am I not getting it? I just don t know how to do it. Brandt stated in 2014 that I definitely noticed an uptick of young people becoming interested in the agent business after Jerry Maguire . Some of what happened to the agent industry would have happened without Jerry, but definitely not as fast as it did, noted Peter Schaffer, who has been a sports agent since 1988.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its Ten Top Ten —the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Jerry Maguire was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the sports genre. It was also voted by AFI as #100 on its list of 100 Passions. The quotes Show me the money! and You had me at hello were also ranked by AFI on its list of 100 Movie Quotes, ranked #25 and #52 respectively.

American Film Institute Lists

  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Movies – Nominated
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Laughs – Nominated
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Passions – #100
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Songs: Secret Garden – Nominated
  • Secret Garden – Nominated
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes: Show me the money! – #25 You had me at hello. – #52 You complete me. – Nominated
  • Show me the money! – #25
  • You had me at hello. – #52
  • You complete me. – Nominated
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Cheers – Nominated
  • AFI s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated
  • AFI s 10 Top 10 – #10 Sports Film (also nominated Romantic Comedy)

In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Jerry Maguire one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years.

In 2017, the NFL, to commemorate the film s 20th anniversary edition, produced two A Football Life mockumentaries, detailing the careers of Rod Tidwell and Frank Cushman after the events of the film. Beau Bridges, Jay Mohr, Jerry O Connell, and Aries Spears reprised their roles from the film, along with Roy Firestone and several real-life sports figures, including Shaquille O Neal. According to the fictional history, Cushman retired after only four years due to a severe case of athlete s foot, and devoted himself to charity work with children with the same affliction; Tidwell was offered an even more lucrative contract, but declined, declaring that the quan was not there, and he preferred to devote more time to his family. The Tidwell mockumentary also features an adult Ray Boyd, inspired by Jerry and Rod to own his own boxing gym.

Soundtrack

The motion picture soundtrack CD includes:

No. Title Writer(s) Artist(s) Length
1. Magic Bus Pete Townshend The Who 7:35
2. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking Warren Defever His Name is Alive 3:21
3. Getting in Tune Pete Townshend The Who 4:46
4. Pocketful of Rainbows Fred Wise, Ben Weisman Elvis Presley 3:15
5. World on a String Neil Young Neil Young 2:25
6. We Meet Again (theme from Jerry Maguire) Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson 3:04
7. The Horses Rickie Lee Jones, Walter Becker Rickie Lee Jones 4:48
8. Secret Garden Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen 4:28
9. Singalong Junk Paul McCartney Paul McCartney 2:36
10. Wise Up Aimee Mann Aimee Mann 3:29
11. Momma Miss America Paul McCartney Paul McCartney 4:05
12. Sandy Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson 4:40
13. Shelter from the Storm (alternate version) Bob Dylan Bob Dylan 6:00
Total length: 54:32

Music not on the soundtrack

Includes:

  • AC/DC – For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
  • Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – The Lonely Bull
  • The Durutti Column – Requiem Again
  • L.V. – The Wrong Come Up
  • Nirvana – Something in the Way
  • Tom Petty – Free Fallin
  • The Replacements – I ll Be You
  • The Rolling Stones – Bitch
  • Merrilee Rush – Angel of the Morning
  • Andy Partridge and Harold Budd – Through the Hill
  • a clip of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus performing (Mingus piece is Haitian Fight Song )

Secret Garden , originally a Bruce Springsteen track from 1995, was re-released in 1997 after its exposure in the film and on the soundtrack, and peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The film was scored by director Crowe s then-wife, Nancy Wilson, who is a member of the rock band Heart.

Sequel

In 2017, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the movie, NFL Films parodied a follow-up to the careers of Tidwell and Frank Cushman, called Rod Tidwell: A Football Life and Frank Cushman: A Football Life, respectively. In February 2021, Cameron Crowe revealed the film s sequel story details, in which it would follow Rod & Marcee Tidwell.

Year 1996
ReleaseDate 1996-12-13
RuntimeMins 139
RuntimeStr 2h 19min
Plot When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
Awards Won 1 Oscar, 26 wins & 41 nominations total
Directors Cameron Crowe
Writers Cameron Crowe
Stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
Produced by James L. Brooks,Cameron Crowe,Bridget Johnson,Laurence Mark,J. Michael Mendel,Bruce S. Pustin,Richard Sakai,John D. Schofield,Lisa Stewart
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Film Editing by Joe Hutshing,David Moritz
Casting By Gail Levin
Production Design by Stephen J. Lineweaver
Art Direction by Clayton Hartley,Virginia L. Randolph
Set Decoration by Clay A. Griffith
Costume Design by Betsy Heimann
Makeup Department Carrie Angland,Linda Arnold,Stacye P. Branche,Michèle Burke,Denise Fischer,Michael White,Christine M. Guararra,Kerry Mendenhall,Carlos Yeaggy
Production Management Amy Herman,Andrew Stone
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Bryan Denegal,Christopher T. Gerrity,Allan Graf,Amy Schmidt,Jill Southern,Warren R. Turner,Jerry Ziesmer,Cary Cordon
Art Department Robyn B. Holmes,Bart C. Hubenthal,Jack Johnson,John Maskovich,John Hammer Maxwell,Hope M. Parrish,William D. Parrish,Jennifer Pray,Wendy Riva,Eric Rosenberg,Brana Rosenfeld,Jim Stubblefield,Sally Thornton,John Villarino,Mike Villarino,Greg Wilkinson,Doreen Austria,Todd Bennett,Jeff J. Davis,W.D. Hogan,Lee J. Jashinsky,Bill Land,Julia K. Levine,Mark A. Mancinelli,Tamara Murphy,Jeffrey Thomas,Gaylene West
Sound Department John K. Adams,Robert Batha,Barbara J. Boguski,Paul Timothy Carden,Don Coufal,Dino Dimuro,Todd Egan,Hector C. Gika,Mark Gordon,Doug Hemphill,Chris Hogan,Gary Holland,Craig S. Jaeger,Chris Jargo,Randy Kelley,Rick Kline,Tony Lamberti,Paul Massey,James McKee,Philip D. Morrill,Gary Mundheim,Thomas O Neil Younkman,John Rice,Dan M. Rich,Mary Ruth Smith,Wylie Stateman,Jon Title,Jeff Wexler,Michael D. Wilhoit,Tami Treadwell,David Young
Special Effects by Paul H. Haines Jr.
Visual Effects by Carol Ashley,Rod Basham,Richard A. Benoit,Casey Cannon,Gil Gagnon,Gilbert Gonzales,Tim Ketzer,Billy Koch,Brad Kuehn,Ariana Lingenfelser,Kevin Schwab,Brian Shows,Gail Wise,David Blum,Aimee Campbell,John Cornejo,Charles Darby,Bill Gilman,Christopher Grandel,Nicole Herr,Roger Kupelian,Vincent Lavares,Mike Leben,Dan Levitan,Richard Lund,Dean Lyon,Ralph Maiers,Marcel Martinez,Karen M. Murphy,Cristin Pescosolido,Tiffany Smith Llorens,Ronnie E. Williams Jr.,Eric Withee,Jeff Zucker
Stunts Steve Blalock,Keith Campbell,Allan Graf,James Michael Hold Jr.,John Jackson,Horace Knight Jr.,Candace Robinson,Don Tardino,Dain Turner,Al Whiting,Danny Wynands,Carlos A. Herzer
Camera and Electrical Department Stephen Andrich,Cheli Clayton,Chuck Cohen,Andrew Cooper,David Devlin,Mitch Dubin,Kevin Erb,Charley Gilleran,Scott Davis Jones,Jim Kwiatkowski,Dwight Joseph Lavers,Brian Lukas,Donald Marks,Steven Meizler,Scot A. Nederman-Paul,Larry J. Richardson,Mark Spath,Dean Striepeke,Ronald L. Vargas Jr.,Steve Alessi,Steven Aquilino,James Barker,Steve Bellen,Rocky Buzzini,Joe Chess,Daniel C. Cook,Jay Coolidge,Daniel Coscia,Frank Del Boccio,Roch Dutkowiak,Kevin Edwards,Erik A. Erichsen,Tim Gaylord,Bob Gorelick,Michael Grady,Daniel Hernandez,Samuel Hughes,Mansur Johnson,Scott Davis Jones,Bill Keenley,Christian J. Killingsworth,Geoffrey D. Knoller,Ron Kunecke,Jason E. Lord,Gregory Lundsgaard,Michael A. McFadden,Scott Medcalf,David H. Neale,Christopher Probst,Leon Sanginiti,Mike Savage,Ralph Scherer,Gary Stark,Michael Stumpf,Larissa Supplitt,Stephen Thorp,Ronald L. Vargas Jr.,Daniel Windels
Casting Department Eva Eastman,Tricia Tomey,Michael Caccamise,William Kapfer,Robert B. Martin Jr.,Franklyn Warren
Costume and Wardrobe Department Cynthia Black,Edward T. Hanley,Joyce Kogut,James Lapidus,Linda Matthews,Meg Matthews,Garet Reilly,Nava R. Sadan,Lori Stilson,Gregory B. Peña
Editorial Department David Bernstein,Richard Conkling,Jennifer Hatton,Phil Hetos,Michael Arlen Ross,Gabriel Wrye,Ofe Yi
Location Management Frawley Becker,Katherine Kallis,Andrew L. Ullman,Julie Duvic,Mike Fantasia,Christopher F. Fuentes
Music Department Danny Bramson,Carlton Kaller,Stephanie Lowry,Nancy Wilson,Brian L. McCarty
Script and Continuity Department Joanie Blum
Transportation Department Chris Basso,Timothy P. Ryan,Don Tardino,Thomas Vilardo,Mark Pont,Vincent J. Ybiernas
Additional Crew Petra Alexandria,Cassandra Barbour,Glenn Cannon,Richard K. Chung,George Davis,Michael Doven,Susan Dukow,Harold Fowler,Tom George,Tom Gorai,Zac Jackson,Jack Janda,Girish Johar,Douglas Jones,Maria Kavanaugh,Michael G. Kehoe,Scott M. Martin,Jeffrey Moorad,Belita Moreno,Brendan Murphy,Felicia Nalivansky-Caplan,Chris Palzis,Mark Pellington,Tory Reed,Mike Revell,Cornelia Ryan,Beau Sessions,Michael Singer,Denise Sirkot,Leigh Steinberg,Shawn Suttles,Chad Woelki,Ken Wolfe,Jesse Yoshimura,Suzanne Ziesmer,Ray Zimmerman,Paula Abdul,Chad Ahrendt,Susan Ahulii,Cassandra Barbour,Crista Birgy,Al Cerullo,Richard A. Clark,Bronwyn Cornelius,Mark Robert Ellis,Allan Graf,David Greditzer,Adrienne King,Tom Lent,Ted Leonard,Georgia Lepore,Eric Mansur,Jeanne Mayeux,Andrea Mikolajczak,Michelene Mundo,Golan Ramraz,David Yang
Thanks Paula Abdul,Bill Bidwell,Lisa Colantoni,Dennis Gilbert,Jerry Jones,Jeffrey Lurie,Rob Moore,Linda Peterson Warren
Genres Comedy, Drama, Romance
Companies TriStar Pictures, Gracie Films
Countries USA
Languages English, American Sign Language
ContentRating R
ImDbRating 7.3
ImDbRatingVotes 265780
MetacriticRating 77
Keywords agent,sports agent,football,football player,single mother