The Family Man
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Movie Reviews of The Family Man
Movie Review: Wonderful! Can I give it 6 stars?!
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed, I cried, I was profoundly moved. I LOVED this movie. The acting was top-notch - Cage's performance was magical; Tea was engaging, lovable, believable. These two together were a delight to behold. Haven't we all had moments of wondering "what would my life look like if I had....?" That's the premise of The Family Man. A couple of scenes I really enjoyed for their value in illustrating the vast differences in the Self-made Man Jack vs. the Family Man Jack: (disclosure: I'm really NOT a fan of gratuitous nudity!! Really! but...) The shower scene where Tea displayed a complete naturalness, lack of shame, comfortableness with her nakedness born of the familiarity that comes with 13 years of marriage vs. Nicolas's complete shock at seeing his former girlfriend exposed before him. Also, Multi-millionaire Jack dancing in his decadent-view-of-New-York designer closet filled with scads of professional clothing vs. Family Jack opening his puny, cluttered closet full of flannel shirts, sloppily and hurriedly getting dressed and driving to his Big Ed's Tires blue-collar, panelled office filled with bowling trophies and kids' drawings. So much contrast! Anyway, I highly recommend Family Man. Curl up on your comfy couch with a bowl of popcorn and soda (or maybe a latte and a cinnamon roll), sit back and enjoy. This movie will give you a chance to appreciate what you have as a result of the choices you've made, or perhaps to wonder what might have been...
Movie Review: What if ... you got off the plane???
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni simmer with chemistry in this delightful re-telling of Jimmy Stewart's classic movie "It's A Wonderful Life". Thirteen years earlier Kate (Leoni) begged Jack (Cage) to get off the plane bound for London. Jack took "the road less traveled" and ended up a Wall Street trader living out Playboy fantasies in his Manhattan penthouse. On Christmas Eve a street smart angel gives Jack a glimpse of what might have been had he gotten off the plane and married Kate. Jack freaks out at his suburban life of domestication complete with bowling buddies, working at his father-in-laws tire store, and Kate employed as a non-profit lawyer with two young children and a dog to boot. New York lights attract Jack until he gives the glimpse a chance and falls in love with life as a family man. One thing becomes clear to him ... that Kate was the love of his life and how he let her go by not choosing "us" left him rich in luxury and poor in love. When Jack runs into the angel he almost demands to stay where he is... but a glimpse is a glimpse and he wakes up in his Wall Street life. Jack's only salvation is to find Kate, now a big-time corporate attorney, before she moves to Paris and demands she get off the plane to have coffee with him.
A sweet endearing promise of our loves lost and found and lost and found. Sometimes in following your heart's desires and manifesting the success you dearly want ... our heart's loves ought never to be underestimated.
Movie Review: An Instant Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Family Man" is about a man, Jack Cambell (played by Nicolas Cage), who receives a glimpse of how things could of been, if he had chosen a life with Kate Reynolds (played by Tea Leoni).The film is nothing short of astonishing. "Family Man" has it all, from comedy, to romance, to drama, you name it, "Family Man" has it. I was expecting a good performance by Nicolas Cage, and my expectations were exactly as how I had predicted it. But Tea Leoni, gives a performance of a life time! The chemistry between the two of them is VERY real, and therefore makes the film all the more realistic. There were plenty of smiles, and maybe for some, a tear jerker here and there, which plays with our emotions and gives us one of the best movies of all time.
After recent misses, Cage makes the right decision to become the "Family Man". If no one knew of Tea Leoni to begin with, she will become a house hold name by the time you see her Oscar winning performance. As for the ending, it wasn't quite to my liking, but if you look at it, given the circumstances, it was a realistic ending, and not the Hollywood ending we were looking for. And Bret Ratner really pulls of a magnificent job as the director of such a serious film, rather than his previous work (Rush Hour, Money Talks). A film I now have in my DVD collection, this is a movie I won't let anyone borrow any time soon.
Grade: A
Movie Review: Really a Ten
Summary: 5 Stars
If I could rate this a ten I would. Nicholas Cage (Jack), a man with a career and no other life is taken on a ride to the other side to get 'just a glimpse' of what life he could have had with Tea Leoni (Kate).Jack and Kate Campbell are the envy of everyone they know. Jack has to learn to like his environment, he left this girl standing at the airport 13 years before, well, things are different when he wakes up in a house (not his penthouse) on Christmas morning.
From the children he has to their friends, Jack really has a life, less challenging in someways in much more rewarding than the multi-million dollar man that he is in NYC.
He goes from being the selfish man that he is to a renewed man who cares for others. Apparently that is what he was all along, he just needed to see it.
Throughout the movie he continually is pulled between the life he left behind and the life that is just a glimpse. You are wondering throughout whether he will choose this family life or choose to go back to his former self.
Cage does a wonderful job, is very believable and so is the whole cast. He really has some great friends and is loved by everyone in his family role. You are lead to wonder what the producer is trying to tell you. There are lessons throughout this great film, quite a few laughs and more frustrations.
The irony is intense. If you ever wondered what life would have been just if????
Buy the family man and wonder......
Movie Review: A movie every husband should watch!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Family Man" is a Hollywood fantasy that has been done in variation many times in the past. What makes this one so different, in my opinion, is that it speaks to husbands today about what we so easily forget. Wealth, influence, power, sex, adultery, etc.... all the things men fantasize for, are shown for what they really are when slapped in the face by an eye opening "reality". It moved me as a man of 40 to consider how empty all those items of lust really are compared to a faithful wife, the hugs of a child, and the security only found in true friendship with another man. We so easily look past the reality because it seems so ho-hum compared to the fantasies we are bombarded with every day.In this movie, we see all sides of this from the perspective of Jack Campbell. From Forbes 400 member to bowling league Jersey family man, he experiences two lives. When he realizes how shallow his life has been, he is desperate to keep the ho-hum we all take for granted.
I think women would love this because it is an intensely romantic movie, in the truest sense of the term. I think it would be wise for wives to have their husband watch it with them. After the movie, there will be a lot of opportunity to talk over tough subjects the film raises. It's a movie that can open wounds, but also provides a warm means to healing. It will make a man think, I know. It worked for me, and my wife is glad for it!