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The Family Man
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
2000 · Directed by Brett Ratner · 125 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
What if you made different choices? What if you said yes, instead of no? What if you got a second chance?
Plot
Jack and Kate, who have been together since college, are at JFK Airport, where he is about to leave to take up a twelve-month internship with Barclays in London. She fears the separation will be detrimental to their relationship and asks him not to go, but he reassures her that their love is strong enough to last and that the internship will be beneficial to their future together.
Thirteen years later, Jack is a wealthy bachelor and Wall Street executive in New York City. At work, he is putting together a multi-billion dollar merger and has ordered an emergency meeting on Christmas Day, disregarding his employees' desires to spend time with their families. In his office, on Christmas Eve, he gets a message to contact Kate. Jack ponders whether Kate is attempting to reconnect, but chooses not to return her call.
On his way home, Jack is in a convenience store when a young man, Cash, enters claiming to have a winning lottery ticket worth $238, but the store clerk refuses him, saying the ticket is a forgery. Cash pulls out a gun, and Jack, trying to defuse the situation, offers to buy the ticket, calling it a “business deal." Cash eventually agrees.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David Diamond, David Weissman
- Cinematography: Dante Spinotti
- Edited by: Mark Helfrich
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: Kristi Zea
- Produced by: Marc Abraham, Howard Rosenman, Alan Riche, Tony Ludwig
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Jack Campbell
- Téa Leoni as Kate Reynolds
- Don Cheadle as Cash
- Jeremy Piven as Arnie
- Saul Rubinek as Alan Mintz
- Josef Sommer as Peter Lassiter
- Makenzie Vega as Annie Campbell
- Jake Milkovich as Josh Campbell
- Ryan Milkovich as Josh Campbell
- Lisa Thornhill as Evelyn Thompson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Beacon Pictures, Saturn Films, Universal Pictures
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $124,700,000
- Themes: businessman, workaholic, midlife crisis, holiday, second chance, magic realism, first love, lost love, alternative reality, guardian angel
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