2000 · comedy · drama · romance
The Family Man
Directed by Brett Ratner2h 5m2000
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
Our read: The Family Man (2000) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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