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The Family Man w/ Nick Cage
Posted on 12/31/24 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 12/31/24 at 3:36 pm
Fantastic little Christmas movie. Never gets mentioned when talking about holiday movies.
On Netflix.
On Netflix.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 3:37 pm to i am dan
Bingo. I've always liked this movie.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 4:23 pm to i am dan
Why couldn’t he have both money and love his family
Posted on 12/31/24 at 5:24 pm to i am dan
Kinda sad that the kids never existed.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 5:27 pm to Clyde
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Why couldn’t he have both money and love his family
Because being successful is evil.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 5:37 pm to i am dan
Posted on 12/31/24 at 5:39 pm to i am dan
It’s a great Christmas movie tbh. I watch just about every year.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 5:53 pm to Clyde
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Why couldn’t he have both money and love his family
Because he picked his financial future over her. She moved on while he was in London, so did he.
Plus, to get a job like he had you have to work 100 hours a week. Not very conducive to keeping someone like her. You can bang someone "hotter" sure. But not someone you want to marry.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 6:23 pm to i am dan
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Never gets mentioned when talking about holiday movies
Only every year.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 6:33 pm to i am dan
Great movie. Bumble into it every year at Christmas and stop down to watch the whole thing over again. Cage and Leoni are excellent.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 7:01 pm to Philzilla
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Kinda sad that the kids never existed.
That part didn't bother me when I was young but now that I have a kid it's a surprisingly serious gut punch.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 7:05 pm to i am dan
I forget that was a Christmas movie. Rarely seems to get mentioned among the other holiday films on here. Quality movie.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 8:05 pm to i am dan
Last movie I ever saw at a dollar theater, fun fact
Posted on 12/31/24 at 8:49 pm to Locoguan0
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Why couldn’t he have both money and love his family
Because being successful is evil.
Talk about missing the point of the movie.
The movie honestly passes relatively minimal judgement on his corporate life in fact when we first meet him he’s remarkably happy.
In fact in one of his conversations with Kate he says that his life was simply “different”, not worse but different
Additionally it spells out why he can’t have “both” simultaneously in his glimpse life. His alt life is happy because they chose to be near Kate’s family. They CHOSE to not expose their kids to the city which has its pluses but also big negatives. They chose to not have him commute 3 hours a day and instead be home with his family.
They valued different things.
Will Kate and Jack meet somewhere in the middle in his future, maybe. Certainly left open and presumably with his new found appreciation he will adjust his lifestyle to do so
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 12/31/24 at 8:50 pm to i am dan
I thought it was a good movie when I was younger. After having kids, it destroys me. Especially when his daughter says “I knew you would come back” when he’s playing with her in the snow.
Then when he’s chasing his wife at the terminal at the end, when he’s talking about when his son smiles and he chokes up talking about it, I get teary eyed. It’s such a good movie
Then when he’s chasing his wife at the terminal at the end, when he’s talking about when his son smiles and he chokes up talking about it, I get teary eyed. It’s such a good movie
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 12/31/24 at 8:58 pm to Dr RC
quote:for real, it's super messed up watching now
That part didn't bother me when I was young but now that I have a kid it's a surprisingly serious gut punch.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:55 pm to i am dan
Every year around Christmas we send the kids to my parents and watch this. It’s a good movie and I like the mood it puts my wife in.
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