"The Family Man"

Nicolas Cage delivers a truly inspiring and moving performance as a man who learns tha answer to the question "What If?" Cage plays a big time Wall Street broker who in one moment is on the top of the financial world and the next moment he is waking up with a wife and kids.

Tea Leoni plays his wife who he left at the airport thirteen years earlier as he choose a career over her. People are comparing this to "It's a Wonderful Life" and with that Don Cheadle plays the role on the angel sent to show Cage what a difference one choice can make. When he wakes up in his new life he sees what it would have been if he stayed with her.

The good times and the bad, the choices made and the sacrifices. He learns what is really important and what isn't. Cage is wonderful and as always brings his tenderness combined with wild activity to the screen. He controls the film from beginning to end and you are along for the ride with him. Leoni will hopefully become a big star after this movie. She has the perkiness of Meg Ryan but she also seems very real. She makes you believe that she could very well be your next door neighbor, kind and gentle and funny.

The movie pushes all of the emotional buttons it wants to which is surprising because it is directed by Brett Ratner, who is best know for the action film "Rush Hour". When the lights come up at the end, this film will make you cherish your friends, family and loved ones just a little more. That is the power of film.