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Jerry Maguire The Rewatchables
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Jerry Maguire

Picking Nits

Jonathan Lipnicki’s throw and Rod Tidwell’s climactic celebration are challenged as implausible sports details.

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  • The child’s final throw is described as mechanically terrible despite Jerry treating it as evidence of athletic promise; Tom Cruise’s later throwing form is offered as an explanation.
  • The hallway embrace after a regular-season touchdown is judged disproportionately momentous, even after allowing for a great catch and fear of paralysis.
  • Tidwell’s extended celebration is joked to merit roughly seventy-five yards of penalties, while the concussion is offered as an explanation for his behavior.
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Jerry Maguire

Apex Mountain

The panel tests a long peak list, agreeing on several candidates while disputing Crow, Glenn Frey, Jerry O’Connell, the Springsteen soundtrack, Regina King, and the publisher cameo.

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  • Cameron Crow is proposed as peaking here; Almost Famous is countered as his life story and therefore easier material to assemble.
  • This film is proposed as Tom Cruise’s best movie and as the complete Cruise experience; 1996 is accepted as a career year because it also included Mission: Impossible.
  • Kelly Preston, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jonathan Lipnicki, and Bonnie Hunt are all named as peaks.
  • The performer rendered as Jay Moore is treated as a probable peak, with a later agent television show recalled but not named.
  • The performer rendered as Glenn Fry is initially placed above the Eagles and his Miami Vice appearance, then removed after the Miami Vice comparison wins out.
  • Roy Firestone’s Rod Tidwell interview is called his peak.
  • Jerry O'Connell is proposed as peaking here; Stand By Me is raised, but the response prefers his Cush role.
  • The Springsteen soundtrack is nominated over Philadelphia, while the Philadelphia lawyer-office scene is offered as a strong counterexample.
  • Beau Bridges is added as a late-career peak.
  • The Michaels-Deerdorf-Gifford broadcast trio, using the transcript’s observed spelling, and Wayne Fontes’s lobby appearance are added as peaks.
  • Regina King is explicitly rejected as a peak because of better later work.
  • The publisher cameo is considered against the person’s Almost Famous and Perfect appearances without a settled conclusion.
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Jerry Maguire

1996

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Jerry Maguire

1996 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Juliet Litman

Aired August 7, 2017

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