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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097363436546
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount Home Video
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 24651
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 28, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Chicago weatherman David Spritz (Nicolas Cage) is living the life most of us dream of: he's a celebrity makes a six-figure salary working two hours a day and is on the short list for the meteorologist job on a national morning show. But his professional successes are overshadowed by his personal failures. He's divorced from his wife his kids are slipping away from him and even his Pulitzer Prize-winning father (Michael Caine) won't take him seriously.System Requirements:Runtime: 101 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 097363436546 Manufacturer No: 343654
Amazon.com:
Nobody does comic existential angst like Nicolas Cage, who gets a good workout in The Weather Man, an underrated slice of quiet desperation. Cage plays David Spritz, a Chicago TV meteorologist who knows only too well the constant uncertainty of predicting the weather. Despite a possible offer from a network morning show, David's life is a mess: he's estranged from his kids and irritated wife (Hope Davis), he's perpetually at odds with his remote father (Michael Caine), and lately people on the street have had the disconcerting habit of throwing food at him. Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) has perhaps too heavy a touch for this kind of comic melancholy, but screenwriter Steven Conrad has an interesting, almost Mamet-like ear for 'written' dialogue--Cage has a few voiceover monologues, including an uproarious sequence involving tartar sauce and a walk to the store, that are hugely funny. It's possible that we've seen Cage in this kind of character one too many times, but he's still good at it, and his doleful face and pasted-on smile fit the mood of the picture. Unlike the heroes of most Hollywood movies, David Spritz doesn't always--or often--do the right thing, but Cage makes you want to see the poor sap make it. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Under the Weather: take two aspirins and skip this movie
It is always easy to write a film review about a really bad film because there are so many things you can point to that don't work. In The Weatherman, veteran actor Michael Caine tries desperately to hide his cockney accent (it doesn't work); quirky actor Nicolas Cage wants his acting to be taken seriously (it isn't) and the vacuous script can not decide if it is comedy or drama (it is neither).
Director Gore Verbinski is obviously more comfortable when he knows his genre. He made huge ... Read More
Rating:  - "Life without struggle is meaningless"
Nicolas Cage takes a break from all the awful big blockbuster action movies he does and chooses a role that reminds us why he won an Oscar in the first place (Remember his Oscar? It sure wasn't for "Next" or "Ghost Rider"!)
In this smallish, low key movie, directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), Cage plays David Spritz, the titular Weatherman. David wears well tailored clothes, drives nice cars, lives in a very nice apartment and has a great job most people would kill for. ... Read More
Rating: - One of Cage's Best
Cage is smarter than the average Hollywood schlump. His choices in projects shows that. This one is a cross between the more comedic "The Family Man" and the much darker "Adaptation" and actually borrows the latter's device of having the main character indulge in schizy voice-overs, racing thoughts that go through his mind. This is a very dark movie, not likely to satisfy the masses who want comedy and straight-forwardness. Rent if if you enjoy intelligent scripts that ask big questions about success, ... Read More
Rating:  - Sun is to bright; as "Weather Man" is to stinky
This movie has got to be one of the worst movies I have ever wasted 101 minutes of my life watching. I usually do not like critics, but I must tell you, THIS MOVIE STUNK Worse than the arkansas river. I just do not know why this movie exists... were they trying to make a quick buck? One word comes to mind when thinking of this movie, BOOOOOOOOOOO! If you want to be depressed, than this is the movie for you. This isn't even one of those, "I gotta watch it cause I gotta see why it's so bad" movies. I wasted ... Read More
Rating: - The Weather Man dvd
This is an excellent movie! The service was prompt and reasonable. I am very satisfied.
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