Title: Jerry Maguire Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Renée Zellweger Genre:  Dramatic Comedy Rated: R for language and slight bursts of sexuality Rating: **** (out of ****) While spending some time at The Man's Cape house, we decided to go out and rent a movie. Jerry Maguire was suggested, and why not? It couldn't hurt. However, to my I-despise-Tom-Cruise attitude, the movie was very, very good. It was about a big shot agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise). He's a number one man around the firm, but one night he makes the smartest and stupidest decision of his life. He begins to write a memo of his thoughts about his company... how it should be run. His new moto: "Less employees. Less money." Within the week he was fired. Now, on his own, Jerry has to start a business of his own with no one on his side except a fellow employee that was moved by his memo, Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger) and his one football client with a fast mouth, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr). As the tagline goes, "Everybody loved him... everybody dissapeared" seems to sum the movie up very well. It's based on Jerry's experience running a dying company, looking after his one big-mouth employee, and trying not to fall in love with Dorothy... all three of which spin him into his new life, his new passion, and his new horrors. Cuba Gooding Jr is brilliant, by far his best performance ever, and the star of the film. He was incredible and gave the movie life. However, both Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger were superb performances and had a very emotional relationship. The plot was astounding and brilliantly acted. It was a masterpiece, emotional, funny, and well worth purchasing. Jerry Maguire easily gets four out of four stars and a place on Alaay's Classics equal to all others. P.S. Pretty good musical taste too. Shelter From the Storm and Secret Garden on the background. -Alaay-