After the commercial disappointment of his second feature film Singles, director Cameron Crowe couldn't help but notice how many fair weather friends were disappearing now that he was no longer the hot new kid in town. That realization lit the spark for what would become his next project - Jerry Maguire.

It took several years before the initial idea evolved into a finished script and there were a lot of interesting changes along the way. We explore how a filmmaker with no interest in professional sports turned that into the perfect backdrop for this story.

Topics include: the other A-list movie star Crowe wrote the title role for, the decision to start this film where any other movie about this guy would have ended, how shocked they were that "show me the money" became a catchphrase, the line they thought was going to be the most quoted, the difference between this era of Cameron Crowe's work and his more recent output, how much plot gets crammed into the third act, why the iconic climactic scene might be the wrong ending for this movie, and much more!

 

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