The Weather Man (2005) 5/10

Starring : Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Pena, Nicholas Hoult
Director : Gore Verbinski
Running Time : 107 mins

Weather man David Spritz (Cage) has a successful career, being both loved and hated by the general public, but his private life is a little more complicated, with his ex-wife Noreen (Davis) making his life a misery and his father Robert (Caine) never thinking anything he does is good enough, so when David is offered a lucrative job in New York, he must decide between his family life and his future career.

This is one of those movies that critics love, but I didn’t enjoy. This desperately wants to be more than it is, but falls just short of the mark. It’s not any one thing in particular that makes this movie weak, it just doesn’t hold together as well as it could have. There’s lots of potential, but no follow through, like a poor man’s American Beauty.

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