> Which 1996 movie popularized the phrase, "Show me the money?"And the answer: Jerry Maguire.Photo credit: IMDB.Starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Renée Zellweger, Jerry Maguire tellsthe story of an arrogant sports agent who is fired and starts his own firm. Themovie is also famous for the line, "You had me at 'hello.'"Jerry Maguire isn't only a classic, it's also the fifth highest-grossingromantic drama of all time! Some twenty-five years after its release, fans stillreference Cruise and Gooding Jr.'s iconic moments, from the locker room scene to"Show me the money." Jerry Maguire launched Renee Zellweger’s career, netted TomCruise his second Oscar nomination (the first being Born on the Fourth of July),made us love Cuba Gooding, Jr. enough to put up with Snow Dogs and Boat Trip andstill easily stands as the most financially successful film of director-writerCameron Crowe’s career. However, did you know that Cruise's part was originallywritten for Tom Hanks? Director Cameron Crowe took so long writing the scriptthat by the time the film was ready for casting, Hanks was 40, and had twoAcademy Awards under his belt. Instead, Crowe went with star Tom Cruise. Interestingly, while most of us remember the film for its now-iconic lines,Zellweger couldn’t quite figure out “You had me at hello.” According to her:> “When I read it, I didn’t get it—I thought it was a typo somehow. I kept lookingat it. It was the one thing in the script that I was looking at going, ‘Is thatright? Can that be right? How is that right?’ I thought, ‘Is there a better wayto say that? Am I not getting it?’ I just don’t know how to do it.”Thank goodness she got it down. Watch the trailer for Jerry Maguire below.