the movie jerry maguire was based on sports agent leigh steinberg.
the movie jerry maguire was based on sports agent leigh steinberg.
who is the movie jerry maguire based on?
sports agent leigh steinberg
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jerry maguire is a 1996 american romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced, and directed by cameron crowe, and stars tom cruise, cuba gooding jr. and renée zellweger. produced in part by long time "simpsons" producer james l. brooks, it was inspired by sports agent leigh steinberg, who acted as technical consultant on the crew. it was released in north american theaters on december 13, 1996, produced by gracie films and distributed by tristar pictures.
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"jerry maguire" spawned several popular quotations, including "show me the money!" (shouted repeatedly in a phone exchange between rod tidwell and jerry maguire), "you complete me," "help me help you," "the key to this business is personal relationships" and "you had me at 'hello'" (said by renée zellweger's dorothy boyd after a lengthy romantic plea by jerry maguire), and "kwan," a word used by cuba gooding jr.'s tidwell meaning love, respect, community, and money (also spelled "quan" and "quawn") to illustrate the difference between himself and other football players: "other football players may have the coin, but they won't have the 'kwan'." these lines are largely attributed to cameron crowe, director and screenwriter of the film. zellweger said of filming the famous "hello" line, "cameron had me say it a few different ways. it's so funny, because when i read it, i didn't get it — i thought it was a typo somehow. i kept looking at it. it was the one thing in the script that i was looking at going, 'is that right? can that be right? how is that right?' i thought, 'is there a better way to say that? am i not getting it? i just don't know how to do it.'" brandt stated in 2014 that "i definitely noticed an uptick of young people becoming interested in the agent business after "jerry maguire"". "some of what happened to the agent industry would have happened without 'jerry,' but definitely not as fast as it did," noted peter schaffer, who has been a sports agent since 1988.
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