Jerry Maguire - Game of Life

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Movie
German title Jerry Maguire - Game of Life
Original title Jerry Maguire
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Cameron Crowe
script Cameron Crowe
production James L. Brooks ,
Cameron Crowe,
Laurence Mark ,
Richard Sakai
music Nancy Wilson
camera Janusz Kamiński
cut Joe Hutshing
occupation
synchronization

Jerry Maguire - Game of Life is a film directed by Cameron Crowe and shot in the United States in 1996 .

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Jerry Maguire works extremely successfully as a sports manager for the company "Sports Management International" (SMI). After a tirade typed into his notebook against the dishonesty and lack of humanity in this industry and the company in particular, which he had copies distributed to all the employees' mailboxes and which he himself wanted to have understood as just a "guide", he was fired. He then opened his own agency together with the accountant Dorothy Boyd from SMI, who followed him from the old company because of his mission statement .

In addition to the young football mega talent Frank Cushman, he and his friend Rod Tidwell can take over one of his previous customers. However, this is not exactly successful in terms of sport and is also marked by a broken shoulder. He expects a new million dollar contract from Jerry. During a joint marketing campaign with his last two customers, Jerry cares almost exclusively about young Frank and draws media attention to him, which makes Rod feel abandoned. But when Jerry loses Frank to a former colleague, he has to rely on Rod. Under these conditions and the one-sided dependency, an even closer friendship develops between the two in the course of the film.

Maguire marries Boyd. He's not sure if he really loves her, or just married her because of her loyalty or because of her young son, with whom Maguire gets along very well. The couple put the marriage on hold.

Jerry tries now to Rod and gives him his full attention. However, the sporting success still fails, whereupon they reproach each other and criticize in their actions. Rod is reinstated in an important game after his team has already played a successful season and promptly creates a sensational touchdown . However, he remains motionless on the ground after a tackle followed by a rollover. Detected by the cameras, Jerry runs to him worried. However, Rod is just dazed, gets up again and lets himself be celebrated as a match winner in the stadium. Jerry and Rod are once again moving into the focus of the media as sought-after personalities.

Jerry Maguire now realizes that he is missing his wife and goes to her home. She has a couple of friends over to visit whom he confesses his love to and asks her to start over. She replies that he had already convinced her when he said "Hello".

Cast and dubbing

The German-language dubbing of the film was done by RC Production . The author of the dialogue book and dialogue director was Frank Schaff .

role actor Voice actor
Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise Frank Schaff
Rodney Tidwell, called Rod Cuba Gooding junior Dietmar miracle
Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Ulrike Stürzbecher
Ray Boyd, son of Dorothy Jonathan Lipnicki Yvonne Greitzke
Laurel Boyd, sister of Dorothy Bonnie Hunt Heike Schroetter
Marcee Tidwell, wife of Rod Regina King Maud Ackermann
Bob Sugar, sports manager, contestant to Jerry Jay Mohr Peter Flechtner
Avery Bishop, friend of Jerry Kelly Preston Bettina White
Frank Cushman, called Cush, football player Jerry O'Connell Matthias Hinze
Matt Cushman, father of Frank Beau Bridges Norbert Gescher
Ethan Valhere, high school acquaintance Eric Stoltz Andreas Fröhlich
Chad, au pair with the Boyds Todd Louiso Stefan Krause
Dicky Fox, mentor to Jerry Jared Jussim Werner Ehrlicher
Dennis Wilburn, general manager of the Arizona Cardinals Glenn Frey Frank-Otto Schenk
Katarina Witt ( cameo ) herself Ulrike Möckel

Reviews

The film has been described as funny and romantic . TV Movie magazine (05/1997) praised Cameron Crowe's directorial work and Tom Cruise's play.

“Thanks to an excellent Tom Cruise, this is a gripping comedy about the meaning of life. However, one learns very little about the work of a sports agent - Cruise could also be in the financial business. Nevertheless, the comedy presents some good sports scenes that make the viewer suffer with the football player. Good supporting characters and original details round off the pleasure. "

- Prism Online

Awards

Academy Awards

  • Best Actor (Cruise) Nomination
  • Best Cut (Hutshing) - Nomination
  • Best film nomination
  • Best Original Screenplay (Crowe) nomination
  • Best Supporting Actor (Gooding Jr.) - Won

Chicago Film Critics Association

  • Best Supporting Actor (Gooding Jr.) - Won

Directors Guild of America

  • Best Director (Crowe) nomination

Golden Globe Awards

  • Best Actor in a Feature Film, Musical or Comedy (Cruise) - Won
  • Best film, feature film, musical or comedy - nomination
  • Best Supporting Actor in Feature Film, Musical or Comedy (Gooding Jr.) - Nomination

Image Awards

  • Best Supporting Actor (Gooding Jr.) - Nomination

Satellite Awards

  • Best Actor in a Feature Film, Musical or Comedy (Cruise) - Won
  • Best Actress in Feature Film, Musical or Comedy (Zellweger) - Nomination
  • Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film, Musical or Comedy (Gooding Jr.) - Won

Screen Actors Guild

  • Best Actor (Cruise) Nomination
  • Best Supporting Actor (Gooding Jr.) - Won
  • Best Supporting Actress (Zellweger) - Nomination

Writers Guild of America

  • Best Original Screenplay (Crowe) nomination

MTV Movie Award 1997

  • Best Male Performance (Cruise)

reception

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Country musician Kenny Chesney released the song You Had Me from Hello in 1999 , which was based on the line of the film in which Dorothy says, “ You had me at 'hello'. "The rock band Bon Jovi named a song You Had Me From Hello after this line on the 2002 Bounce . This movie quote also served as the inspiration for the song "You Had Me At Hello" by the hardcore band A Day to Remember. In addition, the sentence was included in the list of the 100 best film quotes of the American Film Institute (52nd place) as well as "Show me the money!" (In the German version: "Guide me to the gravel!") (25th place).

Grossing results

The film became a huge commercial hit, grossing $ 273 million at a $ 50 million production cost.

Others

The musician Glenn Frey from the band Eagles can be seen in a supporting role as team manager Dennis Wilburn . The singer and guitarist Jerry Cantrell from the band Alice in Chains has a cameo as "Jesus of CopyMat" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry's "Guide" to his colleagues at SMI ( Memento from April 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
  2. ^ Script of the film, scene 129. In: dailyscript.com. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ German dubbing index - Films - Jerry Maguire - Game of Life. In: synchronkartei.de . Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jerry Maguire - Game of Life. In: prisma.de . Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Jerry Maguire - Game of Life at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed March 4, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Jerry Maguire - Game of Life at Metacritic , accessed March 4, 2015
  7. ↑ Jerry Maguire - Game of Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ↑ MTV News: Bon Jovi Put Post-9/11 Faith, Hope, Energy Into Bounce. September 12, 2007, accessed July 4, 2010.
  9. ↑ box office results. In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ boggydepot1998: Jerry Cantrell (Jerry Maguire 1996). August 24, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .