Top 10 Cameron Crowe Moments

You’d better believe that a smooth-talking agent like Jerry Maguire would have a speech prepared for his big make-up scene with his soon-to-be-estranged wife Dorothy (Renée Zellweger). And Crowe sets it up in style — the bursting in of the door, the moist eyes of the protagonists, the skeptical looks of Dorothy’s sister’s support group for divorced women. And while Maguire manages to get some good shots in (“You complete me” places strongly in the best-lines-of-the-film category), Crowe wisely cuts him off mid-monologue. “Shut up,” Dorothy says. “Just shut up. You had me at hello.” As one of the divorcées notes, “This is the best talking group I’ve ever been to.”