![]() ![]() THE FAMILY MAN opens in 1987 with college student Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage in one of his best roles) saying goodbye to his girlfriend Kate as he heads off to England for an internship with a bank. Structurally, however, FAMILY MAN is more like “Scrooge Lite” and reminiscent of DISNEY’S THE KID earlier this year. THE FAMILY MAN has been billed as a modern IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, a movie that didn’t do well at the box office but soon after its initial release became everyone’s favorite. It is too bad that it didn’t have more courage to proclaim its convictions with more integrity. ![]() THE FAMILY MAN will strike a responsive chord in many people. ![]() Drinking is part and parcel to family life, sex is thrilling, especially with your wife, and adultery is beguiling. Also, there’s a conscious earthiness to even the good choices. Its spiritual underpinnings are much more vague, however. It wants to prove that everyone needs love, marriage, children, and that these things are much more important than fame or fortune, and it does prove its case. Better yet, it’s an intentionally moral movie. Very well written, it makes you laugh and cry. By the end of his brief glimpse of what life could’ve been, he discovers, of course, the real values of life. Jack is incredibly disappointed by this mundane, middle-class life. Instead of waking up in his penthouse on Christmas morning, he wakes up married with two kids. In THE FAMILY MAN, Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a Scrooge-like businessman who finds out what his life could have been thanks to an angel-like character. ![]()
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