The makers of The Family Man were trying to do a kind of reverse It's a Wonderful Life without ever realizing that it doesn't work on paper, much less on the screen.
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The Family Man (2000)
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Reviews Counted:126
Fresh:67
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Despite good performances by Cage and especially by Leoni, The Family Man is too predictable and derivative to add anything new to the Christmas genre. Also, it sinks under its sentimentality.
Theatrical Release:Dec 22, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $73,708,015
Synopsis: Nicolas Cage stars as Jack Campbell, a career-driven workaholic who has everything: an exciting job, a Ferarri, a closetful of Zegna suits, and the attention of any woman he wants. His life changes... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven
Director: Brett Ratner
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Reviews for The Family Man
Rests on its charm, never falling short of pleasant.
12/12/00
An easier movie to tolerate than it should be if, like me, you're in love with Téa Leoni, who ... rescues the movie from the tar pit of irrelevance.
12/21/00
Top CriticRedeems itself with raw emotion and the evocative force of love.
05/14/03
Es de esos filmes que están en el límite entre ser considerados como una buena o una malas película
02/07/01
Ratner, to his credit, gets the job done and makes it bearable.
12/22/00
The screenplay is effective enough to get us thinking about a few philosophical issues ... while it tells a worthwhile story.
12/18/00
Top CriticRatner assembles enough small, bright moments of earnest amusement and sweetness to eke out a victory, thanks largely to talents of Cage and Leoni.
12/14/00
Slow at times, but never dull. You'll be thinking a lot on the way home about that special someone who got away, got thrown away, or incarcerated before his time.
02/07/01
An entertaining romantic comedy that delights despite (or, others may feel, because of) its high mush quotient.
12/21/00
The film has so many spiffy individual scenes.
12/22/00
The predictability factor didn't spoil our good time. It might yours...but then, again, it might not.
11/27/01
[The] playfully woven combination of cool comedy and realistic romance provides audiences across the board with one of the few films this season that is likely to entertain almost everyone.
12/22/00
One of the few films this season able to offer something likely to entertain almost everyone.
12/06/05
Not much more than a contemporary remix of Scrooged, but it's different enough to keep you awake and hipped-up enough to make you like it.
12/08/02
It is Leoni's Kate who grounds this enterprise and gives it some soul.
12/22/00
Warm and soothing, The Family Man is not a perfect film, but it's a perfect film for the holiday season.
11/16/01
Highly compensated Hollywood types who make calculatedly commercial movies are the last folks who should be telling us we're unworthy, unfulfilled people if we don't sacrifice everything to raise a family.
12/21/00
Top CriticAimed at the unfussy consumer of Christmas schmaltz.
12/22/00
Top Criticdespicable and insidious
04/13/01
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