“I’m looking for my wife. Hi, Dorothy. I’m sorry. Hello. I love you. You... complete me.”
It was the film that gave us an Oscar-winning catchphrase, a manic Tom Cruise, and the most honest closing line in romantic comedy history: “You had me at hello.” Jerry Maguire 1996
It is a film of contradictions: a business satire with a bleeding heart, a romantic comedy that opens with a 25-page mission statement, and a sports movie where the most important game is played on a telephone. The year is 1996. Tom Cruise, fresh off Mission: Impossible , was the biggest movie star on the planet. But instead of hanging from helicopters, he opens Jerry Maguire with a sweaty, three-minute monologue. His character, a high-powered sports agent, has a crisis of faith. He writes a manifesto titled “The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business.” “I’m looking for my wife