Arial views and extreme close-ups are narrated with voiceovers by the athletes, and backed up by a killer soundtrack from Soulfood featuring everything from world music to hip hop. The end credits are fascinating, showing how some of this stuff was filmed. It's a Wonderful Life , although missing virtually all of the magic. But alas, The Family Man is remarkably ignorant of economic realities. Having lost their grasp of economic reality and community life from too long a stint in Hollywood, the creators of The Family Man have in turn lost the essence of one of the great modern Christmas tales.
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The top-heavy casting serves to give Sean Connery the floor as a grand master, massaging his role with flourishes and his signature Scottish charisma. See full review. Within the framework of what, on the surface, looks like a typical family comedy lurks a biting satire on the empty material satisfactions of WASP existence in America. Robert DeNiro gives a pitch perfect performance as Daddy Dearest for whom no suitor of his precious Pammy will ever measure up. Stiller and DeNiro spar with graceful comic ease, and ultra-suburbia has rarely been drawn more convincingly.