Weather Man, The

WEATHER MAN is the story of a man, David Spritz, with a fairly easy job
having a really crappy life. In the shadow of his father, a successful
writer, David tries to fix his life, his family and his carreer. Is it
a soulful look into a man down on his luck or is it just a 2 hour
downer leaving you with very little on your way out the theatre?

David Pritz is a man with very little substance. While I’m not a huge
Nicolas Cage fan, I’ll say that he did an okay job portraying this
character. Michael Caine on the other hand gives a much better
performance than Cage. This is mainly due to the fact Caine’s character
is a more inner-developed character, giving Caine a wider range of
emotions and feelings to portray. Cage pretty much just cycles from
frustration to depression to anger, then back to frustration. The
supporting cast consisting of Hope Davis (who plays Spritz’s wife),
Nicholas Hoult and Gemmenne de la Pe