The Family Man (2000)
Directed by Brett Ratner. Starring Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni. Cert: 15.
Running Time: 120 Mins Approx.
This charming film has the flavour of many other films: It's A
Wonderful Life; Groundhog Day; and Sliding Doors and I suppose the
word one would use to describe it is Capraesque.
Cage is great -- at once able to pull off the cold, ruthless business
man with only commerce in his life, and the family man with a big
heart. The whole thing runs so smoothly and progresses so naturally
that you forget you've been sold this idea before. It seems new, the
characters seem real. Jack Campbell's is a journey you are glad to
have taken. And it pulls off the feat that the best of Capa did, to
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