Super Bowl XLV III is upon us. In honor of this unofficial national holiday called Super Bowl Sunday, we take a minute to hoist up some of the greatest and most popular films about America’s favorite sport.
Jerry Maquire (above): One of the most quoted movies in the modern era — including “Show me the money!” and “You had me at hello” and “My ambassador of quan” — Jerry Maguire chronicles the tumult that Tom Cruise’s title character faces when he suddenly grows a conscience and nearly goes bankrupt trying to secure a long-term contract for his lone, malcontent of a client, the talented Cuba Gooding Jr. The movie humanized Cruise in ways his other ultra-successful movies did not, while turning Renee Zellweger into an overnight sensation and introducing mainstream audiences to Gooding, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
