Billionaire Loses Everything And Becomes A Poor Salesman, Working His Way Back To Super Rich

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Jack lives a luxurious life in New York City, being president of a Fortune 500 company. Almost all his time is dedicated to the company, and this Christmas Eve he stays at his office till late at night. While walking home that same night, Jack meets a mysterious and enigmatic man who tells him that he has some things to figure out about his life. As Jack wakes up the next morning, his successful life is suddenly gone…
    Movie Name: The Family Man (2000)
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Комментарии • 757

  • @MotionPicRecap
    @MotionPicRecap  2 года назад +248

    That like button seems to have lost everything, scroll back up and help it become a rich black color again

    • @amberlopez7477
      @amberlopez7477 2 года назад +4

      It's great holiday movie for lost lovers.

    • @Akshitguleria7
      @Akshitguleria7 2 года назад +9

      Jokes on you I'm on dark mode

    • @WhizeCracker
      @WhizeCracker Год назад +2

      ALL of my LIKES are LOVES!!!

    • @jamesmoore6203
      @jamesmoore6203 Год назад

      But remember, time... cannot be used for profit.. but it can be used to create to increase that very profit...
      Wealth is of many things that your including. Plus that 6 billion in your account.... 😊

    • @wildcard5269
      @wildcard5269 Год назад +1

      I Simply Love this movie

  • @scottford1091
    @scottford1091 2 года назад +605

    One of my favorite movies. I'm a big old softy. I always get broken up at the airport scene. I have fallen in love with a long lost girl from my past and I have been happier with her for the past 7 years than I ever have before. This is almost our exact story except instead of 13 years it took 30.

    • @univera1111
      @univera1111 2 года назад +18

      I love you nicolas cage

    • @koscraftbuilds4937
      @koscraftbuilds4937 2 года назад +16

      you were probably meant to be together from before birth, you have history beyond this life.

    • @scottford1091
      @scottford1091 2 года назад +9

      @@koscraftbuilds4937 there is a connection we have that can't be described. You are probably right.

    • @terrancethomas9792
      @terrancethomas9792 2 года назад +2

      Jack watching the video tape is when he finally understands what he has.

    • @Daniel-ny2ff
      @Daniel-ny2ff 2 года назад +2

      @@scottford1091 seriously? Please share ur story?

  • @jesseaviman
    @jesseaviman 2 года назад +386

    One of my favorites. I was injured when I was 13 and am in a wheelchair for over 20 yrs now, I have had dreams like this movie living a life if I didn’t end up in a wheelchair. I connect with this one.

    • @javier-lq4ed
      @javier-lq4ed Год назад +17

      you still can anything is possible

    • @xisigma
      @xisigma Год назад +14

      I injured myself when I was 22, and made train-wreck life decisions from pain. Javier is right though: anything is possible if you believe. Maybe using spirit healing or body part regeneration once potus returns.

    • @sandymakesplans
      @sandymakesplans Год назад +9

      wow 😮😢 i checked out that you posted some vlogs on your channel showing this. i appreciate that you shared 🙂

    • @aman6828
      @aman6828 Год назад +8

      May God fulfill all ur wishes

    • @TheGuyThatWondersWhy
      @TheGuyThatWondersWhy 10 месяцев назад +2

      🙏 hope you’re at peace brother.

  • @hazindu
    @hazindu 2 года назад +545

    Honestly, both Jacks have better lives than most of us.

    • @PaperGrape
      @PaperGrape 10 месяцев назад +6

      Motivation

    • @cahivx
      @cahivx 9 месяцев назад +2

      Haha, true.

    • @ablemicky9923
      @ablemicky9923 9 месяцев назад +2

      Speak for yourself..his life is better than yours

    • @PaperGrape
      @PaperGrape 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@ablemicky9923 "than most of us".....

    • @anthonyrodrigues5032
      @anthonyrodrigues5032 8 месяцев назад +5

      ​@PaperGrape Ablemicky may have a better life but he is illiterate😂

  • @deadbutmoving
    @deadbutmoving 2 года назад +1362

    My life is exactly like this. In my 20s I made the decision to forgo love and pursue wealth. Now I'm 36, I got everything I ever wanted, I'm financially free and my personal wealth affords me a very good lifestyle. But sometimes I wonder if I made a mistake. My brother is only relatively successful (financially) but has a wonderful wife and 2 kids. Ever since my niece and nephew came into this world, I love them soo much. I can't imagine anything more wonderful and valuable than children. I now have many regrets, but I like being the rich uncle.

    • @rollingdudes8859
      @rollingdudes8859 2 года назад +121

      I think you are born to be an UNCLE!!! I am a COOL UNCLE and LOVE MY NEPHEWS AND NIECES but if I had my own kids, I would be TOO LIBERAL and worried about being a COOL PARENT and that would backfire when they grow up. Some people are born to be FATHERS or UNCLES and I am an UNCLE!!!

    • @ralphacosta4726
      @ralphacosta4726 2 года назад +52

      Uncle is a GREAT role. The kids can have a special relation with you, because you, like grandparents, will protect them, but not try to "correct" them. Socialization is a parent's job, an important and heavy one, so grandparents, aunts, and uncles just get the fun parts. If the kids go wrong, everyone blames the parents; no one every blames the uncle ;-)

    • @rollingdudes8859
      @rollingdudes8859 2 года назад +19

      @@ralphacosta4726 Thanks!!! I am the COOL UNCLE!!!

    • @michealscott7898
      @michealscott7898 2 года назад +32

      Well,you can find a cool woman between 18-23 ,probably a virgin and a traditional woman as well and start a family with and kids ,you can even move to Eastern Europe or Asia and live live an average successful man lifestyle over there,I’m sure you will meet a very wonderful young woman than you can wife up ,and be very careful of women and take your time to check few of them that you like ,then you can choose the best from them,
      Bring rich doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a happy family of your own ,you deserve it

    • @Nothing-nf8ve
      @Nothing-nf8ve 2 года назад +65

      36 is young

  • @tlsparks
    @tlsparks 2 года назад +352

    The little girl saying she knew he would come back gets me in the feels every time

    • @jamiestewart48
      @jamiestewart48 Год назад +11

      Little girl then got erased.

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 10 месяцев назад

      100th like

    • @chrisdoe3642
      @chrisdoe3642 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@jamiestewart48 😂😢

    • @gregwilliams3120
      @gregwilliams3120 4 месяца назад +3

      @@jamiestewart48 She didn't get erased. The Jack who was her dad, came back to that reality just as Jack, the millionaire, returned to his.

  • @jaymichaelruss6872
    @jaymichaelruss6872 9 месяцев назад +72

    Imagine spending time with “your children” from an alternate timeline, then living the rest of your life without them. That would suck.

    • @MichaelErnest666
      @MichaelErnest666 2 месяца назад

      Yeah You Would Think He'd Be Able To Line In The Timeline With His Children But Maybe That's The Price He Has To Pay "Can't Win Them All" 🤨🤔

    • @MichaelErnest666
      @MichaelErnest666 2 месяца назад

      "Live"

  • @duanelinstrom4292
    @duanelinstrom4292 2 года назад +46

    This is a great movie. I married my girlfriend, the true love of my life, 61 years ago, just like the movies. 😎

  • @darkopz
    @darkopz 10 месяцев назад +94

    This movie is so incredibly sad. Especially the ending. No matter how much he wants to change his life and rekindle his love, those children will never exist.

    • @kickassets6414
      @kickassets6414 9 месяцев назад +4

      Exactly!! More like a punishment

    • @SoldierBee
      @SoldierBee 8 месяцев назад +1

      😢 this is my favorite movie. Thanks for the insight. Your so right😢

    • @bobbierobinson6269
      @bobbierobinson6269 5 месяцев назад +6

      They can still have them.

    • @darrenjohnson2912
      @darrenjohnson2912 4 месяца назад

      @@kickassets6414yes!

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 3 месяца назад +1

      It's a truly bittersweet ending

  • @hisgenerals3793
    @hisgenerals3793 2 года назад +378

    One of the most emotional film I've seen, it's certainly impossible to accurately recap all the well defined emotions the film carries in 15mins

  • @Siacourage
    @Siacourage 2 года назад +69

    Barely one minute in and I just hit pause. Movie looks too good to just enjoy for 15 minutes. Going to get the real thing. Thanks MotionPic recap. Wouldn't have known about it if you hadn't posted.

  • @roomonleft
    @roomonleft 2 года назад +95

    Such a good movie actually, loved listening to the recap
    Good movies used to be produced around the 90s and 00s

    • @brooklyngray1527
      @brooklyngray1527 2 года назад +3

      The reason for that is because studios can't rely on DVD sales to make up for the cost of a film.
      There's more pressure for a movie to make all of it's budget back in theaters, so more niche/interesting movies aren't being produced. It's really sad.

    • @roomonleft
      @roomonleft 2 года назад +1

      @@brooklyngray1527 thank you for explaining the details!

    • @Ryan-zl3bn
      @Ryan-zl3bn 2 года назад

      @@brooklyngray1527 and woke culture ruined movies

  • @JiffyBiff
    @JiffyBiff 2 года назад +42

    I was completely surprised by this movie. Cage is excellent in it, and Tia... Tia is outstanding, and gorgeous. A movie I've watch a bunch of times, and always gets me.

  • @jcmercado6545
    @jcmercado6545 2 года назад +73

    one of my favorite movies. saw it the first time when i was like 11 and really enjoyed it, not knowing much about life or love.. 18 years later saw it again now with my significant other by my side, and understood the movie a bit better and found it more enjoyable this time around.

  • @stelladavis7832
    @stelladavis7832 10 месяцев назад +31

    Ahh the early 2000, where a man is forced to pick between an amazing super rich big house and a super super rich life and super super big apartment.

  • @kingp109
    @kingp109 Год назад +21

    This movie made me realize that money can distort your view of what true happiness is. Great movie I almost forgot about it

    • @OnceShy_TwiceBitten
      @OnceShy_TwiceBitten 3 месяца назад +2

      still bull shit, money buys it all. You can have all this and have money. Plenty of rich people have big families. But having a big family but not being able to feed them is surely unhappy... So these movies are a crock of shit, in all honesty. Good movie, but lets be real here.

  • @awfan221
    @awfan221 2 года назад +56

    Title should read "Billionaire Loses Everything And Becomes A RELATIVELY Poor Salesman." Relatively is a key word, because there ain't now way that house he had in the alternate life is one of a poor person. It's not like he's working minimum wage and living with his family in an undersized apartment.

    • @ZuhaibShahzadaMusic
      @ZuhaibShahzadaMusic 2 года назад +15

      I mean by today’s standards, id say he’s loaded even there.

    • @awfan221
      @awfan221 2 года назад +2

      @@ZuhaibShahzadaMusic Depends on the location. If he's got a house like that in a major City, then yes. I believe in this storyline, the house is on the outskirts of the city, implying that they are more middle class, probably in the 65-80K region. That's still well off though, even if not loaded.

    • @nomaanalwi9495
      @nomaanalwi9495 2 года назад +3

      @@awfan221 You crazy? Depending on the region, that house is easily worth 3 times that!

    • @johnnymcblaze
      @johnnymcblaze 2 года назад

      @@nomaanalwi9495 Not back then, and he mean 80k a year.

    • @ineedhoez
      @ineedhoez 2 года назад

      Middle class

  • @powerofknowledge7771
    @powerofknowledge7771 2 года назад +21

    I felt this because... What good are the finer things in life if you don't have someone you love to share them with?

  • @elizabethescalante7866
    @elizabethescalante7866 Год назад +13

    This is a very underated Christmas movie.

  • @wilsonlim2614
    @wilsonlim2614 2 года назад +93

    This movie never fails to bring tears to my eyes. 😭

  • @Т1000-м1и
    @Т1000-м1и 2 года назад +46

    I remembered an old thought upon seeing a small recap channel, and then the movie is perfect for that. It really is. The recaps allow some people to feel alive, and others to live. That's the good trade. Afterall, something has been found

  • @DudeTastic13
    @DudeTastic13 2 года назад +34

    They don't make movies like this anymore. Everything has to be woke, woke, and more woke. Bring back the 2000s, please!

  • @normanbisquera6360
    @normanbisquera6360 2 года назад +77

    Amazing that one decision can make a completely different life for you and everybody else. Life really is made up by the decisions we make

    • @Victor-tv9xz
      @Victor-tv9xz 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, that's why some people say to focus on your studies and not women

    • @normanbisquera6360
      @normanbisquera6360 2 года назад +1

      @@Victor-tv9xz nooooooo

    • @sensei2203
      @sensei2203 2 года назад +2

      Well you got your answer 😂😂😂

    • @ilo3456
      @ilo3456 2 года назад +1

      @@Victor-tv9xz I mean in his actual life he was more successful from a financial sense but I think he was more personally fulfilled and happy with the life he didn't have.

  • @simonhernandez2678
    @simonhernandez2678 2 года назад +125

    This movie is a classic. I had the girl of my dreams and I was stupid and I cheated on her. She moved on and married some lucky bastard, and I see them happy as hell on social media. I have yet to meet another woman with the same qualities and beautiful heart. Definitely learned my lesson the hard way. This movie definitely brings a tear when I think of what could've been.

    • @kaatilbilla1202
      @kaatilbilla1202 2 года назад +16

      Yeah, I had one too, she isn’t married yet but she has moved on. I Didn’t cheat on her, things just fell apart

    • @14isoldenough
      @14isoldenough 2 года назад +12

      I chose drugs over all my relationship. Me and the drugs are still in a committed relationship till this day and its going strong. I got serious and buckled down.

    • @Vagabond_X
      @Vagabond_X 2 года назад +3

      @@14isoldenough amen to that im right there w ya

    • @JourneyDestination
      @JourneyDestination 2 года назад

      Stop simping over this married woman. She’s not your girl, she’s not your family. She is nobody to you. You resemble a deranged psychotic stalker who can’t let go and has unreasonable thoughts and ideals than you do a long-lost love.

    • @BhattiJatt
      @BhattiJatt 2 года назад +1

      @@kaatilbilla1202 same here

  • @sabudhungana1008
    @sabudhungana1008 2 года назад +30

    I loved this movie back when I was a teenager.

  • @conkhi1nghenhac826
    @conkhi1nghenhac826 9 месяцев назад +8

    Not " poor" just middleclass working hero.

  • @ernstbtmn
    @ernstbtmn 2 года назад +46

    This was one of Nick Cage's better movies.
    After Con Air...

    • @strider8811226
      @strider8811226 2 года назад +8

      Yes sir (con air ) man of culture 🥲

    • @ernstbtmn
      @ernstbtmn 2 года назад +3

      @@strider8811226 You think it should have won a Oscar too 🥲

    • @MrDotaleavers
      @MrDotaleavers 2 года назад +3

      Face Off?

    • @ernstbtmn
      @ernstbtmn 2 года назад +3

      @@MrDotaleavers Aside being a co-lead with John Travolta...
      Yes, it was pretty good too...lol

    • @rollingdudes8859
      @rollingdudes8859 2 года назад +4

      Cage did Snake Eyes in 1998!!! I liked his performance although the movie did not do well in the box office!!!

  • @laurentpeterson5276
    @laurentpeterson5276 2 года назад +19

    I remember this movie, it really drives home the importance of family.

  • @shannonpollard3964
    @shannonpollard3964 2 года назад +9

    Anne was teaching Jack how to be her dad pretending to be her dad lol.

  • @MrJames1034
    @MrJames1034 2 года назад +7

    The kind of movie that will never be made again. Because Hollywood today basically says that it's more empowering to tell people off and to just be rich than to value relationships and family.

  • @toniesj11
    @toniesj11 2 года назад +13

    I loved this movie. How I wish I had a glimpse of my future life. At least I would have been warned that my exhusband was gonna cheat multiple times and abandone me and my children.

  • @yushi911
    @yushi911 2 года назад +24

    This is on my Christmas movie list every years…love it.

  • @MoizRafay
    @MoizRafay 2 года назад +15

    This is actually heartwarming. I hope I get to have a wife one day :D

  • @jamestk656
    @jamestk656 2 года назад +58

    That was actually pretty good. Cage is so prolific that he has just as many bad movies as good but at least, from the recap, this is one of the good ones. The only sad thing about this movie for me is that those nice kids are never coming back even if he did restart his relationship with Kate.

    • @Carnage7209
      @Carnage7209 2 года назад +8

      The cool thing about nick cage movies is even the bad ones are distinctly "nick cage movies" and are fun to watch

    • @jimmynuetronrblx8628
      @jimmynuetronrblx8628 2 года назад +1

      Yeah makes me sad too

    • @thomasdale6217
      @thomasdale6217 Год назад

      ABC. Always Be Caging.

    • @leewalker23
      @leewalker23 10 месяцев назад +2

      Even his bad movies are considered to be good ones for me. He is just the kind of actor you couldn't hate and would love to see in any movie even the movie is utter garbage

  • @JT-gi8rx
    @JT-gi8rx 2 года назад +8

    That’s cruel, giving him children and then snatching them away. Even if they go on to have children, they won’t be the same, since they will be having the kids at an older age than in the alternate universe. You’d live your whole life basically feeling like 2 of your kids died. Unless those are the kids he’s destined to have with her regardless, which may be as the other universe is just a glimpse.

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 2 года назад +1

      He brought it on himself.

  • @awdrifter3394
    @awdrifter3394 2 года назад +17

    3:34 that's a Chrysler minivan, not a Cadillac.

    • @tlsparks
      @tlsparks 2 года назад +1

      He asked the father in law for his car he said “you can’t drive my Cadillac” then he took his own minivan.

    • @awdrifter3394
      @awdrifter3394 2 года назад +1

      @@tlsparks The narrator made a mistake then, because he said "and lend their Cadillac to him".

    • @tlsparks
      @tlsparks 2 года назад

      @@awdrifter3394 that’s correct.

  • @crazieeez
    @crazieeez 2 года назад +14

    Glad there is a happy ending to this movie and no sad parties. That’s the kind of movie I want to watch!

  • @TheGuyThatWondersWhy
    @TheGuyThatWondersWhy 10 месяцев назад +7

    This is a movie we can all relate to. Life is a series choices that define our paths.
    I can relate to this movie strongly. I was with this girl and had to make a heartbreaking decision. I only had 5 months during our time together and that was it. We had to go separate places and couldn’t change it. But getting married that quickly would’ve been crazy. We have been married for 13 years with two beautiful children.

  • @silencedlight
    @silencedlight 2 года назад +6

    It would have traumatised and destroyed me if one day my kids just disappeared. Love the film, but the unspoken consequences from the ending sucks.

    • @liamerolduffy7738
      @liamerolduffy7738 2 года назад

      Agreed, if I were the Mc, I would have hunted down the angel and forced him to take me back to the other world. Hell, I’d threatened to become a satanist and join demons. I mean, they buzz off the whole celestial hierarchy pretty quickly.

  • @cattameme
    @cattameme 2 года назад +11

    My highschool sweetheart has kids now. So I guess this fantasy is over.

    • @Bancheis
      @Bancheis 2 года назад +2

      Same here man, same here.

  • @jimclark6883
    @jimclark6883 4 месяца назад +2

    I love this movie, one of my all time favorites.

  • @jerickr3090
    @jerickr3090 10 месяцев назад +2

    An underrated classic, thank you for the recap!

  • @cattameme
    @cattameme 2 года назад +11

    Angels... Always teaching rich people empathy... until they go away.

    • @bruhnorton8306
      @bruhnorton8306 2 года назад +4

      The things you do when no one's looking matter alot. They can't live for you. They prolly know who not to help. Don't give pearls to swine.

  • @SolomonTheStoryTeller
    @SolomonTheStoryTeller 2 года назад +5

    Oh look, no woke garbage. the must have biracial couple or a black gay guy or the trans uncle.
    I miss those times when it was just about the story

    • @theonejmv
      @theonejmv 11 месяцев назад

      Yes this was made pre 2015 before all that shit went down

  • @Micheal1122
    @Micheal1122 2 года назад +8

    My wife and kid left for 3 weeks, I’m eating beans, I got a tattoo, the house staff is in disorder, I didn’t even know how to pay the internet bill, the car wash guy called her to tell on me that the cars are dirty. I can’t wait for them to come home

  • @MusicLuv80
    @MusicLuv80 2 года назад +9

    When I was very young there were two choices. Either marry this woman or go off to adventure of life time. Everyone stopped me from marrying because I was too young but I chose that route. I suffered from depression after depression but it got worse about 7 years ago. I love my wife and kids but there were things that I needed to do but never got it done. Regrets is a scary thing.

    • @thebachstudent
      @thebachstudent 2 года назад +1

      This is something I might use in my today life struggle cause I ama suffering for the same thing

    • @MusicLuv80
      @MusicLuv80 2 года назад

      @@thebachstudent Wish you the best.

    • @themomentcollector5402
      @themomentcollector5402 2 года назад

      Why either or? Couldn't you have brought her along in the adventure or since you were very young done it and marry her later? I am sorry for your depression, it will get better

    • @MusicLuv80
      @MusicLuv80 2 года назад

      @@themomentcollector5402 Well, that would have been nice but that adventure we are already part of which is called marriage. But thanks, it is getting better.

  • @firegrillin365
    @firegrillin365 5 месяцев назад +4

    One of my favorite movies.
    Jack wasn't a billionaire.
    Jack also wasn't a poor salesman.
    This movie is much deeper than most can see.

  • @Fermion.
    @Fermion. 2 года назад +16

    This movie makes Jack seem like a bad guy, but he's a relatively nice, hard working, super successful businessman. He was cordial with his staff, and even put himself in the line of fire to help a stranger in a convenience store.
    Usually in these types of movies, the protagonist is usually an extreme asshole. Jack wasn't a bad guy. The whole time, I was feeling like he didn't deserve this "glimpse."
    So now what? He neglects his work responsibilities for love, leading to many low level employees losing their jobs?

    • @ricardomurillo5205
      @ricardomurillo5205 Год назад +3

      Don't worry beautiful blondes don't run after tire salesmen and instead run after executives. This is a fairytale

    • @peterwinston2359
      @peterwinston2359 10 месяцев назад +1

      Not every woman cares about the size of a man's wallet. If Jack stayed in the glimpse. Than his employees never would've worked for him in the first place. They would have lived different lives too due to the ripple effect.

    • @ricardomurillo5205
      @ricardomurillo5205 10 месяцев назад +2

      @peterwinston2359 I said, in general beautiful blondes will not run after tire a salesman. Rich executives that run corporations know this. Yes maybe you are right about SOME women. That's what makes fairytales possible.

  • @PrizrenaliZH
    @PrizrenaliZH Год назад +21

    I am a father of 3 and a business man. This made me cry.

    • @Just_A_Casual_Fan_Sorry
      @Just_A_Casual_Fan_Sorry Год назад +2

      I'm a father of one and the moment he's saying goodbye to the kids made me teary eyed.

  • @lobostriker85
    @lobostriker85 Год назад +5

    Even as a person who is jaded on romantic love...this is still a great film. Too bad it's not real life!

    • @abrasionthermals9172
      @abrasionthermals9172 Год назад +1

      Yeah no way the woman forgives him to cancel her flight after being abandoned so harshly.

  • @RichV20
    @RichV20 2 года назад +3

    This was one of the movies that was available on my Newark to Frankfort flight in April 2001. That was the only time I saw the WTC Twin Towers, from the terminal and the WTC is shown in the film.

  • @bharathms5560
    @bharathms5560 2 года назад +4

    Moral of the story: Fork love and you will became successful 😅😅😅

  • @giancarlonealmaru7303
    @giancarlonealmaru7303 8 месяцев назад +3

    "In movies you feel somethings is possible but in reality is a disappointment."

  • @mikeebautista3459
    @mikeebautista3459 2 года назад +5

    i love the story ill watch this when i go home with my wife.

  • @BneiAnusim
    @BneiAnusim Год назад +6

    This is a true Christmas movie, I love it!

  • @evanalmighty5554
    @evanalmighty5554 Год назад +3

    So Jack gets transported out of his great life into an alternate life he didn’t ask for? He wasn’t a bad guy, or wishing for it.

  • @andrewhancock2451
    @andrewhancock2451 2 года назад +16

    I found even the recap uplifting. But I wonder if Hollywood got it backwards. I see the nice socially full home life as being the *result* of a value system to begin with, and carefully considered decisions and experience in navigating the challenges and choices that life throws at you. Even with that, however, things don't always unfold the way you plan.
    The protagonist's value system was obviously career success. Can someone spin 180 like shown in the movie just by being exposed to the outcome of having *successfully* navigated the challenges in life in accordance with the opposite value system? The original career oriented direction of the protagonist didn't just pivot on one decision (going on a business trip and not returning to his girlfriend), but an entire life value system, consistently applied on an ongoing basis. It would take a different person to have made the decision differently, and to continuously apply the opposite value system that such a decision reflects.

    • @ineedhoez
      @ineedhoez 2 года назад +1

      I think that is the precise point. You think you want a certain thing, you got it, but it's not particularly fulfilling. He was lonely and disconnected. If on the other side, he was connected and loved. He had people that gave his life purpose. Even still, his core values of ambition didn't change. He still wanted to take his family to the city and chase the bag. In the end, he didn't change. He will still be the career guy, but now he gets the girl. They carve out a life together that aligns with who they both are today.

    • @andrewhancock2451
      @andrewhancock2451 2 года назад

      @@ineedhoez I think we're talking about different things. He reconnected with his former flame at the end of the movie. We don't know if it will pan out because your entire value system has to change to steer things in the direction of the "glimpse" into the alternative reality. Not only that, but it takes a lot of work to adhere to those values steadfastly over a long time. We don't know whether either of things are humanly possible for him, and even if it is, the alternative outcome is not guaranteed. Would he be able to carry on life according to those value systems when the outcome that he caught a glimpse of is never guaranteed? That's why I said it's about value first. The values need to be so central that you will live according to them, regardless of how likely a rosy home life is. The rosy home life might come afterward, and it may not. If you don't hold such values so dear, then you will falter and choose easy paths when the going gets tough. Or superficially compelling paths, without deeply reflecting on their implications.

    • @Quball87
      @Quball87 Год назад

      Jack (Nicholas Cage) valued money and professional success over anything else. The whole message of the film is there's more to life than work and getting yourself to the top of the ladder. Jack was uber wealthy (not a billionaire but probably a multi-millionaire) but had no family, no real friends, and was working on a holiday. In the alternate timeline, he has a wife and children, a good friend in Jeremy Piven's character, and a fulfilling life.

    • @gappergob6169
      @gappergob6169 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@Quball87it's working because he already experience success for years, knowing the other side had to offered.

  • @Don-pk2uy
    @Don-pk2uy 2 года назад +7

    Love doesn't last nowadays without money

  • @happyDaddyhappyHubby
    @happyDaddyhappyHubby 2 года назад +4

    The warmest tearjerker for career focused folks like...you and me

  • @garyedwardchongjaryew889
    @garyedwardchongjaryew889 2 месяца назад

    One of Nicholas Cage's best works,in my opinion,together with Tea Leoni

  • @RedHanded1969
    @RedHanded1969 2 года назад +5

    That was a great movie, should play it every Xmas..

  • @tylergnosis2581
    @tylergnosis2581 2 года назад +1

    Always go for the money. Forget the family life

  • @Padoinky
    @Padoinky 2 года назад +5

    This is one of my “Christmas movies”… a bit unconventional theme-wise, but nonetheless poignant and meaningful

  • @EvilTwin123
    @EvilTwin123 2 года назад +9

    HAS TO BE HEARD;
    Best line is when the little girl approaches him and admits she knows he's not his actual daddy but more of an alien 👾
    She then asks
    (in a super cute voice)
    DO YOU LIKE KIDS?
    to which he replies
    ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.

  • @PastaLoops
    @PastaLoops 10 месяцев назад +1

    This film... is beyond words good.

  • @svt_pompanoparkracing7630
    @svt_pompanoparkracing7630 2 года назад +4

    Saw this once as a kid and loved it. One of the best Nick Cage movies.

  • @jacobfoster9185
    @jacobfoster9185 2 года назад +5

    I loved this movie when I was younger

  • @Gauravmann
    @Gauravmann Год назад +2

    Anybody else notice what Kate was doing at 6:08 ? Seems like dancing...

    • @Just_A_Casual_Fan_Sorry
      @Just_A_Casual_Fan_Sorry Год назад

      Yup, dancing in the shower and scrubbing her butt. This shows that life with kids is not all torture and can be enjoyable.😅

  • @ccggenius
    @ccggenius 2 года назад +3

    Wait... THIS is the movie where Cage get's upset about his wife eating chocolate cake he was saving because of a bad rotisserie chicken?

  • @elizabethescalante8114
    @elizabethescalante8114 4 месяца назад +2

    This is a very underrated Christmas movie that's perfect for the family. It's like A Christmas Carol meets It's A Wonderful Life

  • @Soulkilla38
    @Soulkilla38 2 года назад +1

    Cadillac but gets in a mini van lmao im DEAD

  • @cattameme
    @cattameme 2 года назад +6

    15:12 most unrealistic scene of the whole movie. lol.

  • @MusicLuv80
    @MusicLuv80 2 года назад +8

    Really loved this movie. So well made.

  • @pizzaboynizza1
    @pizzaboynizza1 5 месяцев назад

    Honestly, I think he would have been better off without the “glimpse,” those kids will never exist and his life will feel empty without them. It’s basically a horror movie.

  • @napalmman8292
    @napalmman8292 11 месяцев назад +2

    There's a Korean version of this movie, they did a great job as well.

  • @sammymobs3889
    @sammymobs3889 2 года назад +4

    You would think he would have saved some money

  • @encryptor6710
    @encryptor6710 2 года назад +15

    They need to make a movie where the guy has a boring life with a boring job and wife and then it flips back to when he could have left to go be a corporate business man who ends up becoming incredibly rich. And then at the end, he stays a millionaire over his boring life and wife.

    • @dryriverquinnie
      @dryriverquinnie 2 года назад +7

      That's the backstory of all the sharks on shark tank.

    • @mo_money247
      @mo_money247 2 года назад +1

      😂😂😂👍🏾

    • @TexanSupremacy
      @TexanSupremacy 9 месяцев назад

      That movie exists. It’s called Mr. Destiny.
      Whoops didn’t read the last sentence, my bad lol

  • @nickgeorgiou7770
    @nickgeorgiou7770 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is one of my favorite Christmas movies. IMO it’s our “It’s a Wonderful Life” movie of this era

  • @alexeycherkashov6913
    @alexeycherkashov6913 2 года назад +3

    My ex divorced me after this movie
    She Went on dreaming about bankers and brokers. Kids lives shattered. I am bankrupt. She is alone with sex toys. Lawyers are Rich.
    Thanks Hollywood! Now make some films to make good wives- not good divorce dreamers.

    • @robertlee3778
      @robertlee3778 2 года назад +2

      Nah.
      U got it wrong.
      she would have left you anyways ...
      because ... it was in her, always.
      The movie, it was only a trigger, an excuse. It could have been anything, really.
      Just be thankful. be thankful that she left you. thankful that she showed her true colors, when she did. be _thankful_ that she released you from a life of misery.
      Don't blame her. don't blame yourself. don't blame anyone. All you have to do, the only thing that you can do is to ... accept. Accept and move on with your life. And that is the important thing. This is your life. Not mine. Not hers. Yours.
      And money. Money isn't everything. Money does not buy happiness. I know.
      Just be happy. be happy with yourself. be happy with what you have. Why? because there are many, *many* more people who have far less than you or I, and they are content with what is given to them. And if you don't believe me, walk outside. Walk around. And open your eyes, and look. And see for yourself. And you will see. Open your heart, and you will know. And you will come to realize that ... even if you were rich ... you could not save all of them, and some of them, you could not even save a single one of them.
      So ... just be happy, with yourself. And move on.
      Sometimes, in life ... It Just Is.

    • @alexeycherkashov6913
      @alexeycherkashov6913 2 года назад +1

      @@robertlee3778 if it means so little why don't people give it to me? If it means so little why did she destroy all the financial future for both of us and spend it on lawyers?
      No man you're wrong
      Money is life that it took to make this money. In this case my lifetime.

    • @leereed219
      @leereed219 2 года назад +1

      @@alexeycherkashov6913 i agree to a point. I lost a house at the age of 20 to a woman, and it was a huge setback. Being self employed, i worked my balls off for ten years out in North Dakota, rebuilding myself financially and emotionally. It was tough but rewarding, but I'll never do it again. This time i got a prenup, i protected myself and my future. At some point you just become too old to start over again from nothing, to work that hard from so far behind. I'm just thankful it happened to me at a young age, i couldn't imagine starting over now.

  • @jerrytshipamba1762
    @jerrytshipamba1762 2 года назад +6

    i love this film. that's what life is all about.

  • @aronmaddocks2736
    @aronmaddocks2736 2 года назад +4

    I really enjoyed this movie , ain't gonna lie .

  • @Naksu..
    @Naksu.. 11 месяцев назад +1

    And when they die, they will be judge for what they did in this world. The most important thing in life is not love, its worshipping the only One Creator... The end

  • @Moonwired
    @Moonwired Год назад +1

    That is NOT WHAT THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT, GODDAMN AI TITLES..

  • @CptMole
    @CptMole 4 месяца назад +2

    Title is misleading. He didn't lose everything since he had nothing to lose to begin with. On the contrary, he gained everything he would have wanted.

  • @BoxyMan28
    @BoxyMan28 2 года назад +40

    I'll be honest one of the best films I've ever seen. Great story. But sadly the few women I've tried committing to instead of work made other plans.
    When I committed to work my life changed.

    • @wayando
      @wayando 2 года назад

      Yeah. It's hard to get someone with the same thought process ... I guess we all have to chase the wrong things for afew years before we know they are wrong.

    • @BoxyMan28
      @BoxyMan28 2 года назад +4

      @Kimberly A make no mistake, I'd say yes to love and an amazing relationship with a wonderful lady. But the relationship I've always dreamt of won't happen. Our generation is not on the same page with the way relationships should be and I'd rather be single and motivated in my job than have my mind wrecked by a partner who can't commit or is seeking their next option while with me. Not saying you must give up on it, I'm really happy for the few good couples out there today who make it work.

    • @MJ-ps3tk
      @MJ-ps3tk 2 года назад

      Exactly! this movie backwards

    • @jingei
      @jingei 2 года назад

      Changed how?

  • @muhammadsaniwada307
    @muhammadsaniwada307 Год назад +1

    Am surprised the western people now appreciate being married early is worth it.

  • @shambho1111
    @shambho1111 2 года назад +1

    I feel the same way.. Like I am stuck in some time travel weird bad journey.. I want to go back in 2011 and make things right.. I wish i ciuld go back.. I miss my wife my daughter.. 👶😭

  • @fandyanu11
    @fandyanu11 2 года назад +1

    Emotional and philosophical movie

  • @licensedprofessional4742
    @licensedprofessional4742 2 месяца назад

    Money buys happyness!
    Poverty buys nothing. 😢

  • @XFS540
    @XFS540 Год назад +2

    The narration in this video is full of so much emotion.
    Not.

  • @zawwin1846
    @zawwin1846 2 года назад +2

    The is the most cruel torture, showing a man what could have been.

  • @thesoundpurist
    @thesoundpurist 10 месяцев назад +1

    7:35 he didn't pretend, he was exhausted from his 9 to 5 job and lack of sleep with the children which he's not used to... At least that's what I perceived in

  • @zico739
    @zico739 Год назад +1

    Lower middle class Suburbia is not poor lol.

  • @rc....
    @rc.... 9 месяцев назад +2

    How this a science fiction???? 😂

  • @brendan5539
    @brendan5539 11 месяцев назад +1

    He does not run a Fortune 500. Cage is Pres of an equity firm.

  • @ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz
    @ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz 3 месяца назад

    The moral of the story: develop yourself and build the career first. Then, when you are secure in life, search for happiness.

    • @raxwrldz
      @raxwrldz 2 месяца назад

      only a streetshitter would think like dat

  • @Ktonrider
    @Ktonrider Год назад +2

    This is a fantastic movie, just watch it.. you won’t be disappointed

  • @sushddu
    @sushddu 2 года назад +2

    "Your purpose must come before your relationship."

  • @nwokediikechukwu1828
    @nwokediikechukwu1828 2 года назад +7

    This movie really messed with my IQ... very intelligent twist of a plot..

  • @cattameme
    @cattameme 2 года назад +3

    Really Really good movie.