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The Weather Man should be retitled to Angst in Chicago -or- How Many Pained Facial Expressions Can Nicolas Cage Make?
I was in hopes this would be a good film but it was just too painful to watch a couple of good actors wasted in this rubbish.
Nicolas Cage plays a weatherman in Chicago but he isn't really trained for it and doesn't really like his job. He's lost his wife (Hope Davis) and has unrealistic expectations that it can be made right again. His two young teenage children are seriously messed up. He's a vast disappointment to his father (Michael Caine).
He is regularly pelted with fast food as he walks down the Chicago streets. He's in serious need of anger management therapy. He's chronically depressed and at a loss as to what he can do to make himself and those around him happy. And he just landed a job as the weatherman on a national morning news show out of NYC.
I was tempted to just give up on it several times but stuck with it to the end hoping the film would redeem itself. It didn't. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate dark humor and love movies with a warp but this doesn't pass either test.
Directed by Gore Verbinski.
Rated R for strong language and sexual content.
viewed Feb-2006
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