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stars AN INVITATION stars

TO A CHRISTMAS THEMED 

starsCAGEALOT FILM CLUB!!!stars

 

What? Open discussion with other fans on the Nicolas Cage Movie

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starry THE FAMILY MAN (2000)starry 

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Where? right here at Cagealot Castle! 

When? Sunday 11 December, 2 - 5 pm uk time

(check the time in your time zone here)



How? Just turn up, log in and Nic out with the rest of us!

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Stuff you could do before Sunday:   

1. Check out the following on 'The Family Man':

 

The Family Man (2000)





Tagline: 

What if you made different choices? What if you said yes instead of no? What if you got a second chance?


Character: 

Jack Campbell



"I don't know, maybe it was just all a dream. Maybe i went to bed one lonely night in December and I Imagined it all. But I swear, nothing has ever felt more real."

Director: 

Brett Ratner


Producers: 

Marc Abraham
Alan Riche
Zvi Howard Rosenman


Writers: 

David Diamond
David Weissman


Co-stars:

Téa Leoni
Don Cheadle
Jeremy Piven


Movie Synopsis:

Happily single playboy Jack Campbell, a highly successful, competitive and materialistic wallstreet executive in New York, wakes up on Christmas morning in an alternative life, the life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend years ago at the airport and get on a plane to England to begin his banking career. 
Disorientated and confused, Jack gets out of the bed he appears to be sharing with his wife Kate, leaves his suburban house, drives in his family car ( not his beloved silver ferarri ) to his apartment and place of work only to not be recognised in both places. After an encounter with an angel, he learns this is an alternate reality to learn some kind of lesson.
Jack struggles to adapt to the role of family man, tyre salesman, father to two children and husband to Kate, making some serious mistakes along the way including missing their wedding anniversary, considering having an affair with a married woman in their circle who has had her eye on family man Jack for years, and arguing with non-profit lawyer Kate about how could she let him give up on his career ambitions to 'settle' for this life. 
After observing Jack for a while, his young daughter soon lets him know that she knows he is not her Father, but agrees to help him in navigating the challenges of his new life, and despite his initial frantic despair, Jack begins to find himself enjoying being the family man, growing to love his children and remembering the love he feels for Kate all over again. He also proves so successful in his tyre sales job, that he wins himself an offer of a highly lucrative contract from the very same investment firm where he had his executive position in his former life, that would enable Kate and him to move and live in a more luxurious lifestyle. 
But will Kate help Jack realise where his true values lie, and how will his former life change now he has had a real life glimpse of what he was missing?

Trailer:




Awards:
2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actor in a Comedy/Romance Movie

 

 

2. Watch the movie!!

 

 

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Hope to see you then!!!!!

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Please note: you need to be a member to join the CAGEalot film Club discussion, it is easy and free, just choose any username and register HERE !

 

 



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Cagealot Film Club commences in just over 2 hours!

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Get ready to NIC out at our NICmas themed film discussion of 'The Family Man'!

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Don't forget, the discussion will be ongoing until 5 pm uk time, so please feel free to drop in any time during that time slot, even if you cannot make the whole discussion!

Look forward to seeing you there fellow NICsters!

Lula

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Hi everyone! 

Our Christmas themed Cagealot Film Club is now officially open!!!!

Who is joining us today to discuss 'The Family Man' ?

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I'm here, Lula, ready to discuss a favourite movie!



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I am here, and ready, Lula!yellowflowergrin



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Welcome to you both, Ladies Trueheart and Arwen! flowerface

Thank you for coming, i am not sure how much of a participant I can be today, i am running a temp of 101 degrees 



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Oddly, I had never watched this movie till about two years ago, but I have made up for lost time since then.



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Hope you feel better soon, Lula.



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I am sorry, to hear that, Lula. Glad, you are here. :)

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I am curious, who else will atend this meeting, today!

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I'm here only unfortuneatly I can't stay becouse I have continieu studying, Xo have fun !



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I guess I never watched it, although it seemed very popular, because I thought it would be too cute and cloying, not my favourite things in a movie, but not so at all, of course. Way too funny and thoughtful to be smaltzy.



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thanks, both flowerface

It taken an awful lot to stop me from waxing lyrical over a Nic film. l such a magNICal one as The Family Man!!

How shall we proceed? i like the idea of going through through the film a bit..



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@eva, glad you can be with us for a litle bit

@Lady T there is alway room for Nic flavoured smaltzy in my life, but i know what you mean! and i agree it is not sickly swwet, just funny and captivating, and moving!



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bye all :/



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At the airport, they were both too old really to play that scene, but I like that the director didn't make them look falsely young, like so many movies do with make-up. or use other actors.

Her speech was so touching and stirring, how could he leave?



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The beginning at the airport seem to be as an average scene, where Jack has decided to go to London, but, when Kate tries to convince him, not to go, and she says, "And, I choose us", it seems, that there are little doupts in Jack, if he should go or stay with her. And, then the look on Kates face, when she thought, he would stay, and then discovers, that he decided to go. This disapointment on her face.

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Lol, their 1987 selves are so lovely together at the airport, moving scene...

Kate "I have a bad feeling about this"

and it is the first time inth film she says, "I choose us"



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"I choose us" becomes a real key-sentence in that movie!

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@Lady A, I agree, they wer both great in this scne, Nic played it  so tenderly..l

ooking at it retrospectively  is the family man version of Jack Campbell we meet at the beginning of the film? or a mix of both?



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