“SHOW ME THE MONEY!” – Jerry Maguire (1996)
Screaming, “show me the money” at the very top of his voice, over and over again, Tom Cruise’s Jerry Maguire will do anything to keep his last client. This is one of those scenes that shows Cruise at his best – even in mid-outburst he brings so much depth to what might otherwise have been a cut and paste, “say this line loudly” job. He looks strung-out, desperate and utterly exhausted, and when this is juxtaposed against Cuba Gooding Jr’s apparent elation, it’s all the more apparent that Maguire is breaking at the seams.
