Jerry Maguire, written and directed by Cameron Crowe

Jerry Maguire, written and directed by Cameron Crowe

Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. And Renee Zellweger all perform excellently in this splendid film.

And one must admit to that, even if Tom Cruise, with his Scientology scheme, can be really unpopular, to say the least.

But this is a motion picture about values.

It is also about love, money, loyalty, grit, resilience, intrinsic goals and calling.

Jerry Maguire is lucky in that he has found his calling.

Psychologists have proved that in each profession, people are divided into three groups:

1. Those who come for the paycheck

2. Men and women who want a career

3. But the really blessed are those who have a calling

And Jerry Maguire is not just an agent who wants the money, he has people skills, dedication, resilience and most importantly...Values

In fact, he can share with his alas, only client the idea that money is not all there is.

Cuba Gooding Jr. Became famous for his role as Rod Tidwell, his line:

Show me the money!

And the acceptance speech at the Academy Awards.

It is up to his agent to tell him, as a friend:

You are too obsessed with money...all the time you think about that, you are wonderful and use your heart off the field, but on the stadium, you only play with your head...

Use your heart!

And the friend is on to something: referring again to psychology, tests and research have proved that EQ is much more important than IQ.

Emotional Intelligence beats IQ hands down

There is a salesman who has some punch lines throughout the movie.

And he says something like- if you have no heart, the head is useless.

The other important story in this film is the relationship between Jerry and Dorothy Boyd aka Renee Zellweger, totally different from the present one.

When Jerry is forced to go from his old company, nobody wants to take the risk and join him.

Nobody except Dorothy.

And she becomes attached to him, and then in love.

In a smart script, their love story does not end when they are married.

Indeed, the Harvard Positive Psychology Professor Tal Ben-Shahar says that with marriage, most, if not all mainstream motion pictures end.

And they lived happily ever after...

But this is just the beginning of a long time relationship.

In the case of Jerry and Dorothy, he asked her to marry him because he felt he had to pay for her loyalty.

But at that point he was not overwhelmed with joy, not even in love.

And she can see that and she is so Emotionally Intelligent that she tells him that he is free and it was her mistake:

"I thought I loved you enough for both of us, but it wasn't "

There is the American football side of this story, with the gradual increase in performance of Rod Tidwell.

This is a very violent sport and president Barack Obama was right to say that he would not have allowed his sons to play the sport.

Concussion, with Will Smith is the film that reveals the dark side of this sport, which too often involves brain damage.

The bond between Rod and his agent is very strong...there is a funny moment, which is also emotional, when another player looks at the real connection and friendliness expressed by the player and agent and says to his own representative:

Why don't we have that kind of relationship?

To which the agent, fakes an embrace, only to be pushed away.

Jerry was betrayed by another player and his father, who abandoned him early in the story.

But he turned the stumbling blocks into stepping stones and became a role model...