Friday night, home alone as per usual; with nobody to share the time with. I’ve been the past 3 years telling myself I’m going to watch this film. In fact, it is 3 years and 6 days since I got this film.

Lets just back up a little, the film in question is The Family Man, with Nicholas Cage and Téa Leoni and to be perfectly honest I’ve been 3 years wanting to watch a film that all I knew about it was the following, who the main actor was, what the title is and what the cover picture looks like. The very sad thing is I’ve not even seen the trailer or read the review.

Slight digression; do you ever get that or is it just me? You have the urge to do something you know nothing about or what will happen but you have a gut feeling that you’re going to like it??

Well as I predicted, I totally loved this film, having just finished watching it, not less than 10 minutes ago. I absolutely can relate with this film in so many ways that it is untrue; I have projected myself in the main character’s situation so many times that it was nice to see a film about this idea.

I can’t even begin to tell you the story without totally spoilling it, so I wont. Don’t read the reviews, don’t ask a friend about it and don’t watch it as a time-filler whilst waiting for the main show to come on. This is a film you might want to watch alone some time when you have nothing better to do than watch this film.

This film isn’t a cinematic triumph where the acting/story/filming/direction is terribly original. In fact, it is just a film with a story similar to that of many other morality films. I just like the execution of it, it caught me at the right moment and it was terribly enjoyable.

I like to think of it as:
…how you can have a whole load of ordinary ingredients and knock out a very pleasing dish.

This film was exactly that.

posted by a-v0id at 10:15 pm & filed under Film Reviews | Comments Off on The Family Man (2000)