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Release Date: Dec 22, 2000; Limited Release: Dec 15, 2000; Rated: PG-13; Length: 130 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage), a hedonistic Wall Street bachelor, wakes up one day to discover that he's been plunged into the scruffy domestic life he thought he'd avoided. This schlock weeper is ''It's a Wonderful Life'' remade as a shark-out-of-water comedy -- it's family-values porn for commitmentphobes. Cage does dryly funny double takes as Jack confronts the workaday horror of his new situation. But the actor's moon-dog mug is required to go misty once too often, and the outsize ticky-tackiness of Jack's new life has been stitched together out of the broadest possible series of Middle American clichés.
Posted Jan 12, 2001
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