The Weather Man
- Title: The Weather Man
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The Weather Man is an intriguing little piece of cinema. It has wondrous, hysterical, moving, and thought provoking moments and yet the film is somehow less than all the great pieces put together. It’s a hard movie for me to review, because so much of it I enjoyed, and yet not all of it fits together as well as I’d like. It’s definatly worth taking a look at, and it’s one of those movies that will become highly quotable, yet I left feeling like it was just slightly unfinished.
David Spritz (Nicholas Cage) is on the fast track to success. He works as the weather man for a local Chicago affiliate and has a good chance to snag the national job on hugely popular morning program with Bryant Gumbel (playing himself).
Yet with all this success David is unhappy. He is separated from his wife Noreen (Hope Davis), who is dating a dildo named Russ (Michael Rispoli), and alienated from his two kids, Mike (Nicholas Hoult) and Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena), who are both sliding into unhappy lives of their own. David is also dealing with the poor health of his father Robert (Michael Cane) who is the paragon of success that David has never been able to measure up to his entire life.
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Is Waiting… great cinema? Well no, but it’s damn funny. A perfect vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, with some wonderful supporting performances, in much the same vein of his title role in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. A nice little comedy that’s well worth checking out.