The Family Man
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Movie Reviews of The Family Man
Movie Review: One of those, "I'm SOOOO glad I saw this!" movies...
Summary: 5 Stars
Just one of those times when I was sitting at the TV channel surfing, and low and behold, "Family Man" came on, the credits and all. It said Nick Cage, and for a second I wasn't sure if I had missed it, or if it was just starting.
I fell in love with Nick in "City Of Angels". Ever since, been one of those "#1 fans", even though I'm in my ... eh hem ... 40's. EARLY 40's.
OK, moving right along, this movie leaves you with that 'stop the world' attitude for a moment, get off, and just have a quick look around before God/ess notices, and how precious life is.
Sure, we ALL have our woes, and whatnot, but we concentrate SOOO MUCH on that ... everyday of our lives!
This movie is that 'helping hand' that reaches out and lifts you out of your strapped and snapped, belted, and welded seat you've placed yourself into, and FREES you, if only for an hour and a half or two, to actually sit back and go, "WOW!!!"
Just get up off your duff and see it, OK? That's all I'm going to say. You can read all the other reviews here to catch a glimpse of the "newspaper" critiques, I'm just here to help you see the bigger picture that I was fortunate enough to witness when I watched it.
Have had it on VHS for the longest time, need to get off my OWN duff, and just order it on DVD from here like I have everyhing else. I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it...
Movie Review: Loved it. A Lot.
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Family Man" could easily have become a schmaltzy piece of Hollywood crap, your typical "happily-ever-after" holiday fantasy. But what makes "The Family Man" rise above? Three things: Brett Ratner's nimble direction, the performances from the principal cast, and an overwhelming sense of reality, life-switching aside. The movie always stays grounded, and presents an equal argument for the validity of Jack Campbell's choices. As a Wall Street exec, he's not a stereotypical heartless schmuck, but a guy who happens to like money, power, and luxury. Unlike other films with similar plots, Wall Street Jack cares about the world around him, as he proves when he intercedes a potential robbery. When he receives his glimpse, family life isn't better than his Wall Street life, just different. During the glimpse, Jack never forgets the fact that he shouldn't be there, and that's also a novelty in films of this sort. Family Jack fills his emotional needs with a family, but as a well-rounded character, his need for success is not completely forgotten. None of the characters in either life are one-dimensional. None of the choices in "The Family Man" are easy or obvious, and that's what makes it so refreshing. Even the ending is grounded in reality, because it is uncertain. Nothing is a given here, and that's why it's so damn good.Movie Review: A wonderful look at what is really important
Summary: 5 Stars
"So you're a non-profit lawyer? Pro-bono? No one gets paid at all, no one makes a dime?"
This is a great film. One of the many that get to the heart of what is important in life. Like "A Christmas carol" or "It's a Wonderful Life" this film is also about how one man gets a "glimpse" at Christmas about what his life could have been.
Jack is a very successful and very wealthy Wall-Street investment banker, who runs into a street wise person robbing a convenience store. When Jack proclaims he "doesn't need anything" he wakes up the next day in New Jersey, with a wife and two kids, and a job selling tires. Imagine his surprise when he is no longer the President of the firm, or lives in a NYC penthouse with a Ferrari.
Nicolas Cage is wonderful throughout. His ability to realistically express confusion and a slow change of heart is amazing. Tea Leoni plays his wife, and does so with a charm that is infectious, in easily her best role.
As "Jack" slowly begins to understand where his life took a turn he begins to understand that material possessions and career success is hardly what he thought it was.
This is simply a wonderful film, with a great story. Funny, warm, and engaging, the emotional journey is touching and resonates. Highly recommended!
Movie Review: We Should Be Right Here
Summary: 5 Stars
What I love about this movie is how much of a impact it did to me. The movie gives a lesson that not everything will make you happy without the special people in your life worth sharing with. Kind of like a Scourage in our times mostly thinking about work, pleasure vanity without realizing that what Jack is really missing, a family. From rich single man to family man without his beloved Ferrari but a minivan of all things. Jack soon learn that how great the life glimpse will effect slowly throughout this movie with the help of his neighbor, his lovely and devoted wife, his two children Jack accepts the way of this glimpse until the mysterious personal who put him through this glimpse takes him back to reality. A turning point in the movie that made me wanting more of what Jack felt waking up that cold mourning without his wife, his kids, the dog that licks him. Alone he was which makes him seeking his girlfriend he left behind 14 year's ago. A life lesson I learn from this movie that family is important than other things which is why I use this movie as example to improve me to be a loving husband to my wife and have the patience when the children come. Favorite track is the music video of Seal singing "This Could Be Heaven".Movie Review: Far Deeper than it seems
Summary: 5 Stars
The Family Man,starring nick cage,t'ea leoni and more is a Wonderful film that preserves the sentiments,blending humor and Drama of the highest degree. Actually,unlike the other oppinion written here,the ending left Me quite depressed and even sad.... Nick is as great as usuall,Tea is just amazing!!!as one other person wrote,I too wanted her to be my wife.More that that:I had Made a scheme for David duchovny(whom i like very much as an actor)to marry Gilian anderson(also a favorite:actor and woman) And i will get amazing tea(with her children).she is just so Beautiful!now to the point;the level of darkness here is not Evident to anybody but nevertheless exists,with Cash portrayed by the fine Don Cheadle,as he forces a 'glimpse' on jack and than Painfully removing him from what became evidentally his natural Surroundings.The movie provides us with a tool to check our life and the decisions we made in them,comprising the results we live By today.Drama and some comedy intertwined with life as it might be make this movie,directed well by the way,by the tallented Brett Ratner,a marc abraham production.DVD version is excellent, Filled with great extra's and wonderfull music.Buy it now!!!