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The Family Man

  • 2000
  • PG-13
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
126K
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POPULARITY
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Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Jake Milkovich, Ryan Milkovich, and Makenzie Vega in The Family Man (2000)
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Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.

  • Director
    • Brett Ratner
  • Writers
    • David Diamond
    • David Weissman
  • Stars
    • Nicolas Cage
    • Téa Leoni
    • Don Cheadle
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    126K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,342
    183
    • Director
      • Brett Ratner
    • Writers
      • David Diamond
      • David Weissman
    • Stars
      • Nicolas Cage
      • Téa Leoni
      • Don Cheadle
    • 460User reviews
    • 70Critic reviews
    • 42Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Ryan Milkovich
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    • Evelyn Thompson
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    • Betty Peterson
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    • (as John O'Donahue)
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    • Frank the Security Man
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      • Brett Ratner
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      • David Diamond
      • David Weissman
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    whynotbacritic

    It's A Wonderful Life in 2000

    I found this movie to be a very nice remix of "It's a Wonderful Life", much like "You've got Mail" is a remix of "Pride and Prejudice" (and totally hints at this within the film). A classic film to make you reexamine your own life, and think about what is really important and meaningful for you, what is success and happiness? Young dreamers in love with their successful careers instead of each other, find out that maybe their love really was meant to be. This is what Nicholas Cage finds out, and when he wakes up from the dream of what 'could have been', he rushes to stop 'loosing her' again, and hopefully still live the happily ever after dream. Nicholas Cage provides a stunning and comical performance in character, from the aggressive businessman - big business and small business - to a loving father and husband with his charming sense of humor. Quite a romantic film to watch with that 'someone special' during the holidays.
    7mjw2305

    Touching Romantic comedy

    Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni steal the show in this very pleasant movie. Jack Campbell (Cage) is a Wall Street investment banker at the top of his profession, that is until one Christmas eve, when he stumbles into the middle of a grocery store hold up. The next day he wakes up married to his college sweetheart Kate Reynolds (Leoni) and he has children. When he finds his old life no longer exists he has to adjust his lifestyle to fit in with his family.

    With slight comparisons to Sliding Doors in the way the story works and the concept of life altering decisions 'Family Man' is very entertaining, charming and heart warming, not to mention subtly amusing throughout. Cage and Leoni are a great on-screen couple and the story is definitely intriguing enough to make for compulsive viewing.

    7/10 Not as good as Sliding Doors, but its definitely worthy of your attention.
    8jrkdany

    Beautiful

    Wow ! What a movie. Very rarely I come across movie which keeps me absorbed till the end. This was one such movie. The knot was beautifully tied and untied. It tries to answer most of the questions we might tend to ask. The ending was more practical and was not forced just for the sake of an happy ending.

    A great movie, I don't know how I didn't come across it so long. Along the lines of It's a wonderful life.
    7rynodino

    Underrated

    It's good I don't know why people don't like it it's a great Nicolas cage film I just wanted more cage freak outs
    7secondtake

    A worthy imperfect but charming version of a Scrooge dream...

    The Family Man (2000)

    Because this is a Christmas movie, I've now seen it twice, and it's really not bad at all. The best aspects, like Don Cheadle, are too brief, and the plot is sometimes rammed into position by sentiment and a need to be popular. But it eventually makes sense and you come around to see the ordinary charm that pervades.

    Not that Nicolas Cage is exactly charming. He's painted as a spoiled stockbroker jerk, both in life and in his dream. But like a Scrooge seen from within, and seeing an alternate life before his eyes, he has the revelation that changes his life. His arrogance slowly dissolves, and that's maybe what he learns most from the dream.

    Téa Leoni is chipper and realistic in her cute way and makes for a love interest that isn't an over-idealized cliché, thankfully. And so she draws him into her life with natural ease. It's too easy of course, and there are unanswered questions—even "It's a Wonderful Life" is more believable in that sense, the logic of an alternative life—but it's fine by the end. And in fact, dreams do whatever they want, so there it is.

    Add this to the growing list of movies that play with this profound and fun idea of seeing what your life would be like if…if whatever, if things had been different, or if you had been better. It's worth seeing on a lazy evening.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      According to the DVD commentary, the scene where Jack gets back into his minivan and the minivan won't start was a happy accident that wasn't supposed to happen. The director thought it was a perfect beat and left it in the final cut.
    • Goofs
      Jack's friend has to get a triple bypass the day after the party, however he is seen at the bowling alley a short bit later in the movie, without enough days passing by to recover from such surgery, especially in the year 2000.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Jack: We have a house in Jersey. We have two kids, Annie and Josh. Annie's not much of a violin player, but she tries real hard. She's a little precocious, but that's only because she says what's on her mind. And when she smiles... And Josh, he has your eyes. He doesn't say much, but we know he's smart. He's always got his eyes open, he's always watching us. Sometimes you can look at him and you just know he's learning something new. It's like witnessing a miracle. The house is a mess but it's ours. After 122 more payments, it's going to be ours. And you, you're a non-profit lawyer. That's right, you're completely non-profit, but that doesn't seem to bother you. And we're in love. After 13 years of marriage we're still unbelievably in love. You won't even let me touch you until I've said it. I sing to you. Not all the time, but definitely on special occasions. We've dealt with our share of surprises and made a lot of sacrifices but we've stayed together. You see, you're a better person than I am. And it made me a better person to be around you. I don't know, maybe it was just all a dream. Maybe I went to bed one lonely night in December and I imagined it all. But I swear, nothing has ever felt more real. And if you get on that plane right now, it'll disappear forever. I know we could both go on with our lives and we'd both be fine, but I've seen what we could be like together. And I choose us. Please, Kate. One cup of coffee. You can always go to Paris. Just, please, not tonight.

      [pause]

      Kate: Ok, Jack.

    • Crazy credits
      As actor Robert Downey Sr.'s name scrolls up the screen during the credits, the words "(a prince)" appear next to it. This happens in other movies in which he appears.
    • Alternate versions
      A scene with Paul Sorvino was filmed but edited out of the final cut. The scene can be seen on the deleted scenes section of the DVD.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Cast Away/What Women Want/Finding Forrester/Traffic/All the Pretty Horses/Before Night Falls (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      La donna è mobile
      from opera "Rigoletto"

      Written by Giuseppe Verdi

      Performed by Luciano Pavarotti and London Symphony Orchestra

      Conducted by Richard Bonynge

      Courtesy of Decca Music Group/Universal International Music, B.V.

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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    • Release date
      • December 22, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Hombre de familia
    • Filming locations
      • Tarrytown, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • Beacon Communications
      • Riche-Ludwig Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $60,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $75,793,305
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $10,554,960
      • Dec 24, 2000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $124,745,083
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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