Scanialara
You won't be disappointed!
Sexylocher
Masterful Movie
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
KellenKing
I'm not sure why but I always like this movie more than the person I'm watching it with. I've seen it multiple times and I love it every time. I believe that happens when you really like the acting and character development in a film. To me the acting was very well done. The story is great, nothing that hasn't been done before, but still a story I enjoy each time. Worth a look.
Floated2
In The Family Man, Nicolas Cage stars as Jack Campbell, aW all Street takeover artist, sleek, cold-eyed, hard-hearted. In a prologue set 13 years earlier we see a different Jack: jeans, leather jacket, rumpled hair. Saying goodbye to his girlfriend Kate (Tea Leoni) in an airport. She pleads with him not to take this internship in London, that it will mean the end of their relationship.Forward to present time, we see that Kate was right. When Jack gets a message from his secretary that someone named Kate called, he tosses the slip disdainfully aside. That's ancient history, and Jack Campbell never looks back. Instead, he keeps everyone working late Christmas Eve on their latest billion-dollar merger and orders them all back tomorrow.The Family Man does offer some decent entertainment but in the end is all to predictable and not as touching or romantic as some claim. Not bad but perhaps a bit too far fetched, silly and over the top. Good performances from both leads isn't quite enough from making this film really enjoyable.
Davis P
The Family Man is a Brett Ratner Christmas time drama movie starring Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni, and Don Cheadle. I've always adored this great movie for a number of reasons. First of all, the cast and their performances. Cage and Leoni will both really move you deeply with their performances. Cage can be both funny and very serious depending on what's going on at the time in this movie, and he's impressive at both kinds of acting. Tea Leoni is also pretty versatile in her performance, she has some funny lines and scenes, but overall the dramatic side of her acting is the main part of her performance. And Don Cheadle's job is to play a somewhat likable angel who sends Jack (Nicholas Cage) on this incredible journey. And his portrayal of the angel is pretty good, I mean it doesn't as much really serious scenes as Leoni and Cage's roles do, but even still he tackles what is necessary and does it well. I loved the script here, it's written with so much heart and real emotion. You can really feel the pain/love in these characters, and that's due to both the actors performances and the impeccably written script. The movie has scenes where you'll be laughing and scenes where you will almost cry and you'll pull so hard for these characters to end up happy and fulfilled in the end. I love the ending, it just sums the whole thing up so well. I suggest everyone experience this great film! You won't regret it :). 10/10.
bozdag
The movie promotes the good old American values: have a family, work hard, be rich and happy. It also provides two dilemmas: do you live in a boring suburb (New Jersey), or live in the city where everything is happening (New York city)? Do you live with kids with no money and collect coupons or do you live the life of a bachelor and be rich and classy? Do you have to be lonely in NYC not having anyone near you at Christmas, or do you live with your wife and family? Do your kids have to live miserably in the city or do you have make sacrifices and live a boring life in a small town? However, these are false dilemmas. One doesn't always need to choose one to sacrifice the other. Why not live in another city, not as crowded as NYC? Why not have a job, that does not pay as much as a Wall Street job, but one that you can live OK and don't have to work 24 hours? Then you don't drive a Ferrari, but you also don't drive an almost broken minivan. Why do the characters either have to be 1) egoist self-centered assholes who only want luxury or 2) parents who have no ambition and live a dull life? Overall, it is a good idea (make a decision, live with it, then years later suddenly live in an alternative life if the different would have been different, reflect). However, the false dilemmas make it an unsuccessful film.
