The Weather Man (2005)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
United States / Germany
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine and Hope Davis
IMDb score:
6,5 (85.938)
Releasedate: 20 October 2005
The Weather Man plot
"Dave Spritz is about to take his best shot . . . at life"
Dave Spritz is a successful weather forecaster in Chicago. He works for a major television station and has little to complain about. Were it not that his private life is a mess. He is separated from his somewhat neurotic wife, he has no bond with his teenage son and he tries frantically to improve the bond he has with his unhappy, overweight daughter. His relationship with his father, an intellectual who turns out to be seriously ill, is also far from loving. When Dave successfully auditions for the weatherman position at a major national broadcaster and he has to move to New York, serious doubts set in. The harder he tries to get in touch with his family, the more he realizes that life is just as unpredictable as the weather.
Actors and actresses
David Spritz
Robert Spritzel
Noreen
Shelly Spritzel
Mike Spritzel
Russ
Don
Lauren
DMV Guy
Andrea
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12890 votes
Verbinski's best.
Also his only sufficient really. The film does prove that you can hardly call Verbinski a director. You can hardly recognize anything of his own style, so I wonder how much he contributes to his films.
The film is carried by Cage, supplemented by a few fine bit parts (Caine and de la Peña especially). Cage is just good as a dry ass with a small anger management problem, Caine complements well with his resigned attitude. The camel-toe conversation between the two is just about the best scene in the film.
The running gags are not always fun and when the film tries to be something more than a regular dry comedy it all starts to falter, but fortunately the running time remains limited and the film does not fall into a pure drama in the last half hour.
It's certainly not great, but otherwise a funny comedy and a nice snack.
3.0*
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Decec
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- 6747 messages
- 8610 votes
A decent drama/comedy movie...
Reasonable story...
Decent acting...
Famous ActorsNicolas Cage and Michael Caine...
Great background sound/music
(Dolby Digital)...
Nice HD quality widescreen...
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FlorisV
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- 1859 messages
- 798 votes
Here and there brilliant and very varied soundtrack by Hans Zimmer that can compete with the best. Beautiful melancholic fragments are alternated by lighter ones. The film is somewhat erratic and cannot continuously maintain the tragicomic humor or melancholy, but has to rely on a reasonable number of strong scenes that are properly supported by the music and often feel too short, because that music creates a feeling that is too fast is again cut short by a new scene with a completely different mood.
The delightful melancholy is somehow skimmed off a little too much by the Weather Man's financial success: in that respect, he actually has a very good life, earning an insane salary of over half a million a year when he's actually not. much is possible, but therein also lies his insecurity and the explanation for his contempt by passers-by, who keep throwing rubbish at him.
The film touches on quite a few themes: divorce, trying to manage children, identity, self-acceptance, the impending death of a father. It's all quite a lot to go really deep, but the core of all these problems usually gets hit.
Nicholas Cage plays modestly for what he does, fortunately no overacting this time and a great role from him. Michael Caine was a bit boring and a bit miscast to me, he's too British to play Cage's father.
All in all, unbalanced, but still a good and special film. It's a pity that Verbinski subsequently started making too much commercial Disney food (read: Pirates), the junk food of which the Weather Man notes: it goes in easily, but it has no nutritional value. His talent for dark humor, or in the case of The Ring dark horror, has been considerable and underexploited since.
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