Jerry Maguire - DVD

Jerry Maguire is a top sports agent and one of the leading figures at SMI (Sports Management International). He is successful, wealthy, and handsome. At first glance, it seems he has his life firmly under control. But something is wrong. Jerry once loved his job unconditionally, yet lately he has grown disillusioned with the state of the business. The ruthless chase for multi-million-dollar fees was never meant to be the purpose of his life. One night, in a sudden attack of conscience, Jerry writes a memorandum in which, across twenty handwritten pages, he outlines the ethical and professional code of the ideal sports agent. Less than a week later, he gets the chance to put his ideas into practice. Because of the memo—which his colleagues seemed to admire so much—he is fired from SMI on the spot. Ideals are one thing; a steady and decent income is another. Only one former friend and colleague leaves the agency with Jerry: Dorothy Boyd, a twenty-six-year-old accountant and single mother. Naturally, she admires—and secretly loves—the author of the memo even more than the memo itself. Jerry naively believes he will persuade most of the top athletes he represented at the agency to follow him. But thanks to the aggressiveness of his former bosses, he ends up with only one card up his sleeve: not a sports superstar, but an average American football player named Rod Tidwell. He is not a bad player, but to earn ten-million-dollar contracts he needs to warm up his overly rational and restrained style of play. Jerry Maguire is completely convinced of this, yet he has no idea that the same emotional restraint is ruining his own life. Will the love of the beautiful Dorothy and the affection of her six-year-old son help Jerry? And will Rod manage to surpass himself, win over the crowd, and financially secure his somewhat eccentric family?