The Family Man
In an exciting story about a man named Jack. Jack's life changed on Christmas night when he stumbled into a grocery store and disarmed the gunman. When Jack awoke the next day, he suddenly found himself in a bed next to Kate, his college sweetheart who had left to pursue his career. There seems to be another life in Jack's life, his former life no longer quite there. In the end, Jack stumbles into the alternative suburban world and finds himself in deep confusion. Now, Jack must choose between his fine career and the woman he loves.
26 September 1948, Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
21 January 1970, New York City, New York, USA
1 December 1971, Geneva, Switzerland
13 October 1967, San Jose, California, USA
1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 January 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
December 31, 2005
I voted for the happy ending, thusly, my enjoyment was diminished.
December 22, 2000
It's the sort of steamroller seasonal entertainment calculated to make us average folks out here feel temporarily warm and happy about our averageness.
January 26, 2006
It's rare that an American movie lets slip such a snobbish distaste for the humdrum lives of its blue-collar audience base, but of course it doesn't last.
December 28, 2010
Pleasant movie despite some predictability.
December 22, 2000
The outsize ticky tackiness of Jack's new life has been stitched together out of the broadest possible series of middle American clichés.
February 15, 2010
Ratner isn't a capable enough director to work the alchemy needed to make this cheese into gold.
December 22, 2000
The absolute choices it forces on its hapless hero are far too mutually exclusive to be credible.
September 19, 2008
Leoni is a revelation. Vibrant and gorgeous, she plays her role of the determined mother in love with teasing, salty charm, providing just enough grit to save the film from Ratner's slushy direction.
December 22, 2000
Too much of the movie is pure formula nonsense.
December 30, 2006
A hunk of sentimental fluff that boasts an often-overstated performance by Cage and an annoying turn by Leoni.
May 25, 2012
Its emotional core makes it easy to appreciate as a classical (if not classic) entertainment.
March 22, 2002
A series of moments, sentimental and comic, that never do add up to a coherent fable.

