Jerry Maguire, 1996

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!

Tom Cruise-- Cuba Gooding Jr

Director: Cameron Crowe

Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renee Zellweger, Jonathan Lipnicki

Jerry Maquire (Cruise), a sports agent working for a large sports management company, has an epiphany about how the business should be (honest, for example), and writes a mission statement to share his thoughts with his co-workers. His co-workers are inspired by it, but when he gets fired the next day, and leaves to start his own company, only one person is willing to join him. Dorothy Boyd (Zellweger) is a single mom with a son named Ray (Lipnicki), who thinks she may have just a made the biggest mistake of her life, leaving her stable job and following Jerry into the unknown.

Overall, it's an all right movie. I really like the music!

Mystery, Alaska, 1999

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!!

Kevin Durand--Colm Meaney

Director: Jay Roach

Stars: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Kevin Durand, Colm Meaney, Burt Reynolds

A small town hockey team in Mystery, Alaska, is put in the spotlight by a reporter who challenges a famous NHL team to a game. So the town prepares itself for the big visit, and a lot happens.

It's a very good movie, I truly liked it, but there's way too much sex and stuff about sex. I'm old-fashioned and I don't appreciate it when Hollywood can't keep sex in the bedroom.

Also, I found it very unbelievable that anyone married to Russell Crowe would be even remotely interested in anyone else. It's ridiculous.

Watch with a cup of cocoa! Because winter in Alaska is VERY cold!

Pat and Mike, 1952

Director: George Cukor

Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

Tracy and Hepburn.

I swear, kids these days don't even know who these two are! But Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were once household names, like bacon and eggs.

In this one, their 7th movie together (do stars ever do that anymore? Who makes 7 movies with one person? Ok, probably a lot of stars still do...), Pat (Hepburn) plays an athlete who needs a manager, and that's where Mike (Tracy) comes in. As a story, I didn't really care about it, to be perfectly honest. It was just another sports/slight romance story. The scene on the cover (above) is the best one!

But these actors! Legendary! Brilliant! Hilarious! So great together! I didn't know what to think at first- I believe the first film I saw them in together was "Desk Set", and I was really confused as to why they should like each other at first. They seemed like opposites to me. And maybe they were. But, oh boy, did I ever fall in love with Spencer Tracy! Their chemistry is wonderful to watch!

Want an enjoyable film? This will do just fine. But "Desk Set" is my favorite of theirs so far!

(And by "so far", I mean, of course, that I have not yet seen them all; because they are both dead, unfortunately, so they won't be making any more. Just needed to clear that up.)

Fact: The American Film Institute named Katherine the top female star in the history of American cinema! And Spencer Tracy ranked #9 for men. (Humphrey Bogart got #1.) Pretty cool!