The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage | WORTH A SECOND LOOK This Man is much better on the small screen
WORTH A SECOND LOOK This Man is much better on the small screen
DVD Review

The Weather Man (2006)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Feb 28, 2006; DVD Release Date: Feb 28, 2006; Movie Rated: R; Genre: Comedy; With: Nicolas Cage; Distributor: Paramount Pictures

It grossed a lousy $12 million at the box office last fall. Critics (including EW's) whaled on it. And yet The Weather Man, featuring Nicolas Cage as a self-hating Chicago TV personality trying to pull his ''s--- life'' together, is precisely the kind of movie that big studios get criticized for not making anymore: a cuts-deep dramedy with the guts to be unlikably honest. The flinch-inducing humor might turn you away — in one of the gentler running gags, Cage's forecaster gets repeatedly pelted with Big Gulps and McNuggets by hecklers on the street — but look past that, to the bittersweet family story, the funny/ sad meditation on America's disposable junk-food culture, and another go-for-broke performance from Cage. EXTRAS Just five generic minidocs. Director Gore Verbinski must have been too busy filming Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 to contribute a commentary track.

Originally posted Feb 24, 2006 Published in issue #866 Mar 03, 2006 Order article reprints
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