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On the surface, Renée Zellweger's A Price Above Rubies — about a woman rebelling against her Hasidic heritage — looks nothing like Jerry Maguire, the film that made her famous. But take away Rubies' black hats, long beards, and payess, and Zellweger's Orthodox Jewish heroine, Sonia, is eerily similar to Tom Cruise's troubled leading man.
Jerry Maguire
Character
A wheeler-dealer of jocks
Predicament
Booted out of sports-management firm
Marries
For the wrong reasons
Dotes excessively on
Little boy named Ray
Reluctant protege
Sculpted wide receiver, Rod
Dumps
Fiancée, with whom he had raw, passionate sex
Has a motto
''Show me the money!''
Happy ending
Realizes he misses estranged wife, Dorothy
Sonia Horowitz
Character
A wheeler-dealer of gems
Booted out of Hasidic community
Marries
For the wrong reasons
Dotes excessively on
Little boy named Yossi
Reluctant protege
Latino sculptor, Ramon
Dumps
Brother-in-law, with whom she had raw, passionless sex
Has a motto
''Oy gevalt!''
Happy ending
Realizes she doesn't miss estranged husband, Mendel
