The Family Man (2000) 7/10

Starring : Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven
Director : Brett Ratner
Running Time : 125 mins

Jack Campbell (Cage) is a workaholic stock broker who has sacrificed everything to get ahead in his career, so when he wakes up one morning and finds himself married to Kate Reynolds (Leoni), a women he broke up with thirteen years earlier, he starts to realise that an encounter with a homeless man known as Cash (Cheadle) may have has more important repercussions than he could have ever imagined.

This movie was a little overlong for my liking, although it has a surprisingly abrupt ending. Cage is okay, but he isn’t particularly likable in the role. I felt sorrier for Leoni than anyone else – she had to put up with Cage who, despite the conclusions this movie gives us, really doesn’t seem to want to be with her. Worth watching as a comparison to A Christmas Carol, but this isn’t brilliant.

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