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Weather Man, The
Paramount Pictures
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong language and sexual content
Starring
Nicolas Cage,
Michael Caine,
Hope Davis,
Gemmenne de la Peña,
Nicholas Hoult,
Michael Rispoli,
Gil Bellows,
and
Judith McConnell
Nicholas Cage stars as popular Chicago TV weatherman David Spritz who has a shot at the big time when "Hello America," a national morning show calls him for an audition. At the top of the world professionally, David is approaching disaster on a personal level as rapidly as the weather changes. His painful divorce, his dad's illness, and trouble with his kids have David poised on the knife's edge between stability and calamity. Trying to gain control of his situation, David slowly comes to realize that life, much like the weather, is completely unpredictable. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Steve Conrad
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gore Verbinski
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 21, 2006
Theatrical: October 28, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This film has moments of uncommon observation and touching insight.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage, a great oddball movie star who sometimes takes enormous risks, has a good, risky part again.

80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The Weather Man begs to be taken seriously and can't easily be dismissed; it kicks around in your mind for a good long while after you've seen it. Cage, who does his finest work since "Leaving Las Vegas," has stripped himself bare of the patented tics and mannerisms he honed in one Jerry Bruckheimer movie too many.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Written by Steve Conrad, this is the smartest script director Gore Verbinski has ever had, and he makes the most of it, aided by a strong cast.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Winda Benedetti
Cage trots out all of this character's flaws in a form so raw and true you can't help but cringe in your seat as he careens from one self-inflicted interpersonal failure to another.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
It works as an intriguingly offbeat character study while offering Nicolas Cage a chance to show why he used to be considered one of the top actors of his generation.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
This is the sort of small, intimate movie that, if it had been made on a low budget by independent actors, would be celebrated to the skies.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Reaction to The Weather Man may depend upon an individual's ability to tolerate spending 100 minutes in the company of an unpleasant protagonist. There's no doubt this can be an uncomfortable experience, but it can also be rewarding for those who are willing to endure the discomfort.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The movie gives actors many chances to shine, and they do. But I went away most impressed with Verbinski.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The film is certainly worth seeing, but it should be better than it is.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Heartfelt and often very funny.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
A fine movie, beautifully acted, but it isn't easy to love--or to watch. It's a parade of miseries, made even more miserable by Gore Verbinski's direction.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Shines the light on a special kind of heroism -- the guts to face up to yourself and make changes. What makes this so emotionally compelling is the way Dave scrambles from this deep vale of cluelessness to something approaching moral maturity.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A surprisingly wry, contemplative movie.

70
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
The Weather Man is not the wacky movie Paramount is selling, nor is it cynical Oscar bait. It's just a little movie about little people trying not to get wet or freeze to death or get burned when they walk outside, and good luck with all that.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The scenes between Cage and Caine are by far the film's most affecting. The two men don't seem to share the same gene pool, which only helps their dynamic.

70
The New Yorker
David Denby
The director, Gore Verbinski, would seem to be an odd man for this material, but he and Steven Conrad hold their ground, sticking to their conviction that Dave's story should play as a belated-coming-of-age movie.

70
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The most supremely odd American film of the year.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Screenwriter Steve Conrad has less success with the female characters: The always dependable Davis is forced into shrewish territory, and David's mother (Judith McConnell) is so barely present that it's a wonder she's written in at all.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
This is one glum outing, with occasional pings of wry wit and hearty chuckles.

60
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Neither the screenplay nor the direction has the requisite depth to turn the banality of one unremarkable life into the stuff of Chekhov, much less of Mr. Payne.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage doesn't so much play a protagonist, warts and all, as he plays a protagonist who is all warts.

60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
What ultimately keeps The Weather Man from being a better film than it is that it doesn't no when to quit.

58
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie mostly proves that cutting-edge humiliations are best absorbed in 25-minute segments on HBO.

58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A sour, deflating and ultimately unlikable black comedy about how awful life can be.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Dave is one of the most ineffectual characters ever to have an entire movie built around him.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Nicolas Cage does such a persuasive job of portraying Chicago TV weatherman Dave Spritz as a train wreck of a guy that you wonder whether this might actually be a training film for a psychoanalytic convention on hopeless cases.

50
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Their movie is cold, and I mean that not as a weather pun, but in the sense that it's impossible to warm up to a character who sees the awful things happening around him strictly in terms of how they affect him.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
There are moments when Cage (with his perpetually worried eyebrows) and Caine (with his inherent emotional elegance) carry the picture admirably enough.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Cage works hard to find traces of humanity in a man that God forgot, as do screenwriter Steven Conrad and director Gore Verbinski. But in the face of a character no one cares about, can audiences be faulted for asking: Why should we?

50
Variety
Justin Chang
Aiming for an Alexander Payne-style synthesis of wry comedy and unflinching character study, pic has been made with the utmost sincerity, but the frankly lugubrious material and barely compensating spasms of humor are all but impossible to warm to.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Weather Man is what indie misery looks like when re-created by one of Hollywood's big studios.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Weather Man belongs to a school of earnest, artsy Hollywood flicks that includes the Michael Douglas-goes-bonkers "Falling Down," and a lineage that goes back to revered 1970s pics like "Five Easy Pieces."

40
Empire
Simon Braund
The film's chill seeps into your bones like a ceaseless cold drizzle. It also suffers from uncomfortably weird tonal shifts.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
One of those purposefully glum studies in alienation that Hollywood occasionally produces as blue-state specials for disenchanted liberals.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A guaranteed downer that's devoid of any upside, and free of dangerously entertaining side effects.
25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Meet American Beastly, perhaps the most bitter studio film of the year.


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