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- I donÆt get the Tom Cruise appeal myself. I know thatÆs
- sacrilegious coming from a Yank, after all he is Mr America.
- HeÆs just too pretty, too saccharine and too damn goodie
- goodie. Every time he smiles that toothy grin and wrinkles
- up his nose as if to say ôainÆt I just darlingö it makes me
- wanna yawn. <p>
- Well, Mr America has been cast in yet another
- leading role as Jerry MaGuire, sportÆs agent, in the soon to
- be released in the UK movie of the same name. Jerry MaGuire,
- sleazy sports agent who would risk the health and safety of
- his clients (pro American footballers) for a buck, suddenly finds
- integrity. In an ethereal moment late one evening, with sweat
- dripping from his brow, he types out a mission statement which
- he distributes to his colleagues the following morning. He meets
- with a round of insincere applause from his co-workers for
- having found morality and then gets sacked for having found
- morality. Oops, now what? He suddenly realises he must go
- independent û heÆll have to take his clients with him so he
- makes a number of desperate phone calls and manages to round up
- the support of almost has-been footballer, played by Cuba Gooding,
- and the support of a lovely, pouty young secretary (donÆt know actressÆ name)
- who, with much drama, quits her job at the firm to follow MaGuire the prophet.<p>
- A romance with the pouty babe ensues, Cruise and Gooding become
- soul mates and the pouty babe becomes a wife. Without spoiling the plot,
- they all live happily ever after.<p>
- You may think I hated the movie, but I didnÆt. Cuba
- Gooding was brilliant, well worth the $9 ticket at the new Virgin
- ægoogaplexÆ in Times Square, and the soundtrack is jamminÆ. With
- all its sugar and spice and everything nice, it manages to preserve
- the notion of the American dream: the underdog makes good.<p>
- If you like feel-good movies about love, triumph and friendship,
- then Jerry MaGuire is the one for you. If you roll your eyes at
- Hollywood mamby pamby, boy meets girl flicks, then wait for it to
- come out on video.
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