The Family Man

Jack Campbell is a wealthy New York investment executive whose life revolves around work, expensive possessions and casual relationships. On Christmas Eve he intervenes in a robbery at a neighbourhood store, and that night he goes to sleep in his penthouse. He wakes the next morning beside Kate, the college girlfriend he left behind years earlier to build his career, and finds that his old existence is gone. He is now a suburban husband and father in New Jersey, selling tyres and living a modest life he never chose. As he adjusts to this unfamiliar family, he is torn between the ambition that defined him and the love he gave up, while a stranger named Cash seems to have arranged the whole situation.

The Family Man is a US production directed by Brett Ratner, the third of the thirteen films he has directed in chronological order, following Rush Hour and preceding Rush Hour 2. David Diamond and David Weissman wrote the screenplay, and Marc Abraham, Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche produced. Nicolas Cage plays Jack, with Téa Leoni as Kate, Don Cheadle as Cash, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek and Josef Sommer in supporting roles. Fifty cast members and 122 crew members are credited.

Made for 60 million US dollars, the film took about 125 million worldwide, roughly doubling its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.9 out of 10 from around 131,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 from about 2,280 votes, indicating a broadly favourable audience response. The critics' rating of 6.1 from 130 reviews is somewhat lower than those audience scores.