Jerry Maguire (1996)
Comedy, Drama, Romance • 2h 19m
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Regina King, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Jared Jussim, Benjamin Kimball Smith, Ingrid Beer, Jann Wenner, Nada Despotovich, Ali Wentworth, Aries Spears, Kelly Coffield Park, Alice Marie Crowe, Larina Adamson, Winnie Holzman, Diana Jordan, Susan Norfleet, Susan Pingleton, Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon, Hynden Walch, Glenn Frey, Donal Logue, Tom Gallop, Beaumont Bacon, Lisa Amsterdam, Angela Goethals, Leslie Upson, Rick Johnson, Lightfield Lewis, Jerry Cantrell, Toby Huss, Drake Bell, Christine Cavanaugh, Russel Lunday, Eric Stoltz, Lamont Johnson, Brent Barry, Charlie Cronin, Theo Greenly, Rod Tate, Danny Rimmer, Michael James Johnson, Jordan Ross, Brandon Christianson, Jerry Ziesmer, Kirsten Krueger, Shannon Thornton, Luis Damian, Jesus Alberto Guzman, Juan Arnoldo Morales, Alberto Alfavo, Andrea Ferrell, Anthony Natale, David Ursin, Thomas J. Reilly, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Jim Moffatt, Leo Zick, Klair Bybee, Stan Sessoms, Gale Hillman, Heather Cheney, Dennis Fitzgerald, Lucy Liu, Stephanie Furst, Justina Vail Evans, Samantha Smith, Ivana Miličević, Lisa Rotondi, Lisa Stahl, Emily Procter, Amaryllis Borrego, Stacey A. Snyder, Lauren Parker, Lisa Ann Hadley, Kymberly Kalil, Alison Armitage, Rebecca Rigg, Golde Starger, Roy Firestone, Al Michaels, Dan Dierdorf, Frank Gifford, Mel Kiper, Jeffrey Lurie, Drew Rosenhaus, Richie Kotite, Tim McDonald, Mike Tirico, Wayne Fontes, Evelyn Fontes, Johnnie Morton, Rick Mirer, Drew Bledsoe, Rob Moore, Ki-Jana Carter, Herman Moore, Art Monk, Troy Aikman, Katarina Witt, Dean Biasucci, Warren Moon, Kerry Collins, Erica Sorgi, Tom Friend, Dallas Malloy, Jim Irsay, Meg Irsay, Beau Bridges, Greg Bronson, Jacqueline Collen, Luanne Crawford, Joanna Daniels, Micki Duran, Mia Korf, Gina La Piana, Valerie Richards, Summer Sanders, June Saruwatari, Iva Franks-Singer, Carolyn Renee Smith, Lynnanne Zager, Kerrie Friend, Leigh Steinberg
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Overview
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
Director: Cameron Crowe
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Luc Besson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Frank Capra
Director: John Carpenter
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
Director: Michael Arias
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio
Director: David Fincher
4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Michael Apted
Video format: HD Streaming
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
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