Gooding Jr. portrays the only athlete (a smart talking professional football player) who stays on with Jerry Maguire after Maguire is fired from his high-powered job.

Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard, a broke Minneapolis car salesman who orchestrates a doomed scheme to solve his money problems: He has his wife kidnapped, hoping her father will pay the ransom.

Mueller-Stahl plays the domineering father of classical pianist David Helfgott, determined to see his son excel.

Norton makes his screen debut playing a murder suspect accused of brutally murdering a cardinal in Chicago.

Woods portrays white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, who was convicted of the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers 30 years after his first two trials resulted in hung juries.