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Jerry Maguire

Playing for Keeps (trailer)

Tue, Aug 21, 2012
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Crotchety washed-up sports pro learns the meaning of life. I hear his new agent is Jerry Maguire.

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quick list: five great football movies that aren’t really about football

Tue, Oct 19, 2010
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I don’t get football. I have no desire to get it, and feel no great loss in my life because of this. But there are a few great football movies aren’t really about football, far less so than the many great baseball movies are actually about baseball. And so these are movies I can love.

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June 12: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Fri, Jun 12, 2009
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We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you’ve been stuck on a hijacked subway train too many times to find any cinematic amusement in that scenario. But you can have something close to that blockbuster experience at home with the proper application of … more…

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Jerry Maguire (review)

Mon, Oct 06, 1997
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About a guy who decides that corporate slavery is not enough, and sets out to get a life…

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