The Family Man
22,612
Drama. Comedy
On Christmas Eve, two days before he pulls off a multi-billion-dollar merger, Wall Street hot-shot Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) gets a phone message from a woman he almost married 13 years before. He also tells a gun-toting street tough that he has everything he needs. The punk laughs. Christmas morning, Jack wakes up next to his old girlfriend, Kate (Téa Leoni), in some sort of parallel universe, in a 12-year marriage. Over the next ... [+]
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United States | The New York Times | "O.K., It´s a Wonderful Life. But Where Is It? (...) 'The Family Man' asks us to feel sorry for Mr. Cage's character both when he is rich and when he is part of the middle class." | NEG |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "Sweet, light entertainment, but could have been more. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)." | NEU |
United States | Houston Chronicle | "Ratner probably thought it would be Capra-esque, but, really, it's just boring." | NEG |
United States | SFGATE | "Nicolas Cage gives a performance that invites audiences to lay cynicism aside." | POS |
United States | New York Post | "Mostly it's a reminder of better movies in this genre" | NEU |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "The movie is sweet, light entertainment, but could have been more (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" | POS |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "Not even a sincere and heroic effort by Nicolas Cage can redeem the film's essential phoniness." | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "Nothing more, or less, than a cheap, dirty grab at our Christmas spirit." | NEG |
United States | ReelViews | "The screenplay is effective enough to get us thinking about a few philosophical issues ... while it tells a worthwhile story." | POS |
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