DVD Movie Rating for: Family Man

3 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Family Man

A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything.

On Christmas Eve, two days before he pulls off a multi-billion-dollar merger, Wall Street hot-shot Jack Campbell 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, in some sort of parallel universe, in a 12-year marriage. Over the next few weeks, he gets a glimpse of what his life would have been like if he'd married her: a house in Jersey, two children, bowling trophies, a job at his father-in-law's tire store, and a lot of love from his wife Kate. When this Dickensian adventure ends, what will he do?

DVD Production Details of: Family Man

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni

Director: Brett Ratner

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Release Date: February 24, 2003
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Brett Ratner, writers David Diamond & David Weissman

Commentary by producer Marc Abraham

Production notes

Theatrical trailer(s)

Deleted Footage & Outtakes

Seal "This Could Be Heaven" Music Video

Making Of

Spotlight on Location

Music Score Commentary with Danny Elfman

Game

Script to Scene

"Hi Jack" montage

Widescreen anamorphic format

Cast of the movie: Movie_Name_

• Nicolas Cage .... Jack Campbell
• Téa Leoni .... Kate Reynolds
• Don Cheadle .... Cash
• Jeremy Piven .... Arnie
• Saul Rubinek .... Alan Mintz
• Josef Sommer .... Peter Lassiter
• Makenzie Vega .... Annie Campbell
• Jake Milkovich .... Josh Campbell
• Ryan Milkovich .... Josh Campbell
• Lisa Thornhill .... Evelyn Thompson
• Harve Presnell .... Big Ed
• Mary Beth Hurt .... Adelle
• Amber Valletta .... Paula
• Francine York .... Lorraine
• Ruth Williamson .... Mrs. Peterson

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Reviews of the movie: Family Man

Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is the quintessential Wall Street shark, scoring killer deals by day and shallow escort sex by night. His round-the-clock routine of empty luxuries is disturbed one lonely Christmas Eve when a gun-packing punk (Don Cheadle)--perhaps an angel of mercy--responds to an altruistic gesture from Jack by giving him "a glimpse" of the life he could have had. Could have, that is, if he had married the girlfriend (Téa Leoni) he'd abandoned 13 years earlier, raised two adorable children, worked in his father-in-law's retail tire outlet, and lived happily ever after in suburban New Jersey. Thrust into this "glimpse" of the path not taken, Jack's a single-malt man in a lite-brew world, wondering if he'll ever return to his "better" life of callous wealth and solitude--or if he even wants to.

Carp all you want about this derivative premise, with its marginal stereotypes and biased embrace of domestic bliss and dirty diapers. The simple fact is, The Family Man works like a charm. Under the assured direction of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), this holiday crowd-pleaser offers comedy and chemistry in equal measure, making the hilarity of Jack's predicament a smooth catalyst for that rarest of movie romances: the marital love story. Leoni is Cage's perfect match as Jack's idealized but imperfect wife, and the movie's appeal largely derives from its awareness that any life has its pleasures and pains. While it only flirts with the dark desperation that makes It's a Wonderful Life a classic predecessor, The Family Man is an irresistible what-if fantasy, and even its debatable ending rides on a wave of genuine warmth and sentiment

Life becomes thought provoking.
Not exactly the knee slapping comedy you think, but a 'feel good' life altering decision maker. One of Manhattan's richest and ruthless businessmen(Nicolas Cage) is transformed into a suburban working stiff with wife and children.

Tea Leoni leads the supporting cast that features Don Cheadle, Harve Presnell, Mary Beth Hurt and Saul Rubinek.