Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11298 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Synopsis
David Spritz (Nicholas Cage, ADAPTATION) might be Chicago’s number one weatherman, but his off-camera life is altogether less successful. Not only is he desperate to impress his father--Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Spritz (Michael Caine, BATMAN BEGINS)--he also wants to reconnect with his estranged wife (Hope Davis, ABOUT SCHMIDT), save his troubled kids, and land a coveted job in New York. David's efforts to reach and protect his kids feel realistic in that they are heartfelt, but not always successful. Likewise, David's marriage contains tangible flaws that reveal themselves in interesting ways. THE WEATHER MAN contains just as much pathos as it does comedy, and does a good job of finding one in the other. Some of the film's most heartbreaking scenes are also the funniest, the best example of this being when David learns that his daughter is being called ‘camel-toe’ at school. Each time Cage's clueless and vulnerable David gets hit with a burrito, milk shake, or apple pie by some disgruntled ‘fan’, we genuinely feel for the guy. Through increasingly insightful voiceovers, viewers are taken on David's journey from the lazy desire for things to be easy to the hard realisation that things never are, and as David's wise father says early on in the film: life without struggle is meaningless.

Customer Reviews

A bleak comedy that blows like the wind: everywhere!
'Easy doesn't fit into adult life,' David's father says to him in the car, and this movie makes that exact point with gusto. Unorthodox and all over the place, it touches on the small disillusionments that meet us around the corner and which sometimes pile up to make up a life nothing like we imagined. Not easy to identify, let alone confront and deal with, these disillusionments are a crucial part of growing up, as David Spritz finds out the hard way. Split between a broken marriage, an accomplished and unimpressed father, and a job he's good at but can't handle properly outside the office, this bleak weatherman has to fight his inner demons and get to the bottom of things before he can start accepting himself and his life as it is.

Cold and glum, and shot in constant bad weather, this movie has the uncanny ability to warm up ever so subtly, creating a welcome sense of realism rather than an over the top feelgood ending, and will probably leave you pondering on the various challenges of life, which start from things ever so simple and grow into great, big whirlpools of mess... Small comments that have turned into endless arguments, simple gestures that have been overcomplicated, little dreams that have turned into big nightmares. And amidst all that mess you may even remember the time someone chucked something at you and realise that maybe you deserved it, and that only you, and you alone, can change your life for the better.

nothing but rain
What a depressing film! Really like Nick Cage but he couldn't lift this out of the doldrums. To be honest I was being generous giving it 2 stars. It's bleak, negative and needs a good kick up the backside to get going. It's not even quirky. Give it a miss, go for a walk in the rain instead.

What a shower!
A disappointing film. I simply could not find any glimpse of humour within it, and it was a real struggle to see it through to the end.