The Family Man (2000) on Netflix
PG-1320002h 5mComedyDramaFantasy
Jack Campbell, Wall Street executive, calls an emergency meeting for Christmas Day. He wakes on Christmas morning in New Jersey beside Kate, the college sweetheart he left, with two children.
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- IMDb6.9/10131,933 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes55%
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Plot summary
Jack Campbell is about to leave Kate, his girlfriend since college, for a year-long internship in London; she asks him not to go, and he says their love will last the separation. Thirteen years later he is a wealthy New York executive assembling a huge merger, and he has summoned his staff to work on Christmas Day. A message from Kate reaches his office on Christmas Eve and he chooses not to answer it. In a store, a young man named Cash holds a gun over a lottery ticket the clerk calls a forgery, and Jack offers to buy the ticket. Outside, Cash asks Jack what his own life might be missing, and Jack answers that he wants for nothing. Jack wakes on Christmas morning in a New Jersey bedroom beside Kate, with two children.
Cast
- Jake Milkovichas Josh Campbell
- Ryan Milkovichas Josh Campbell
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Family Man (2000)
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- Producer Marc Abraham was not sure about Brett Ratner at first: "It just didn't seem like his kind of film. But after getting to know him during the entire year he stalked me, I finally figured that maybe he was the right guy for the job."
- Nicolas Cage was not interested in a lighthearted romantic comedy drama, being focused on more serious roles such as 8mm and Bringing Out the Dead and exhausted from filming Gone in 60 Seconds, but took the part of Jack Campbell after seeing Rush Hour with his father.
- Principal photography began on November 19, 1999 in Teaneck, New Jersey and Sleepy Hollow, New York, where fall foliage was still in evidence, so Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor John Richardson and his team had to turn the neighborhoods into a winter wonderland for the snowbound Christmas scene.
- Before Brett Ratner signed on, the film was originally offered to director Curtis Hanson, who accepted; Ratner was in the middle of directing Rush Hour when his agent kept offering him scripts to consider directing.
