This movie is always on around Christmas, and it always makes me angry and/or nauseated. Nicolas Cage is a successful business man who is given a look at an alternate life for himself. Apparently, despite his success in his career and the fact that he was fine that way, what he really needs is marriage and 2.5 kids to be happy. Never mind that he doesn't like his job in this life and isn't crazy about the neighborhood, all you need is marriage and babies. Very predictably, he decides he loves his new life and doesn't want to go back, but of course he has to. Then he decides everything he spent his entire life working for means nothing without marriage and babies, and runs away to find his old girlfriend. She is also single and successful, and for some inexplicable reason decides that she too is unfulfilled and needs marriage and 2.5 kids.
In short, this movie sends the message that you need marriage and kids to be happy, and no matter how fulfilled you are in your career, it will never truly be enough. It's absolutely sickening.
In short, this movie sends the message that you need marriage and kids to be happy, and no matter how fulfilled you are in your career, it will never truly be enough. It's absolutely sickening.