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* MaybeEverAfter: Jack experiences what his life would have been like [[ItsAWonderfulPlot if he had married his college girlfriend Kate]], causing him to realize that he's LonelyAtTheTop in his job as a Wall Street executive. He tracks down Kate, who is in town for only a few days, to make a heartfelt confession about the life he saw they had together. She takes him up on his offer of a cup of coffee to talk things over, but it's left ambiguous if they will become a couple. Even if they do, their life would obviously still be very different from the "glimpse" that the angel showed Jack.
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* ShowerScene: Tea Leoni's shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when Jack is taken aback by seeing her nude.
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* ShowerScene: Tea Leoni's There's a scene where Kate is singing in the shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when before her husband Jack interrupts her. Since from Jack's point of view he hasn't seen her in years, he is quite taken aback by seeing her nude. nude.
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Misuse. Ms Fanservice refers to a female character that is consistently used for titilation, not just one time.
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* MsFanservice: Tea Leoni's shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when Jack is taken aback by seeing her nude.
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* ShowerScene: Tea Leoni's shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when Jack is taken aback by seeing her nude.
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''The Family Man'' is a 2000 "WhatIf" film starring Creator/NicolasCage, Tea Leoni and Don Cheadle in which Cage plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his old college girlfriend and wonders [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what might have been]]. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an AlternateUniverse where he married his college girlfriend.
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''The Family Man'' is a 2000 "WhatIf" film directed by Creator/BrettRatner and starring Creator/NicolasCage, Tea Leoni and Don Cheadle in which Cage plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his old college girlfriend and wonders [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what might have been]]. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an AlternateUniverse where he married his college girlfriend.
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* BookEnds: The film begins and ends at an airport.
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* BookEnds: {{Bookends}}: The film begins and ends at an airport.
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Not to be confused with the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
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Not to be confused with the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Also, the AlternateUniverse Jack Campbell goes [[FamilyMan straight to this trope and the film title]].
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Crosswicking.
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* FamilyMan: [[MarriedToTheJob A successful but lonely businessman]] who has a WhatIf scenario in which he has a family with his ex-girlfriend from college instead being a successful man he's now.
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* ForWantOfANail: The entire meaning of Jack's alternate life, or ''glimpse''.
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* ForWantOfANail: The entire meaning of Jack's alternate life, or ''glimpse''. What if he stayed with his girlfriend Kate in the United States rather than travel to London to jumpstart his career in finance?
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: An [[InvertedTrope Inversion]].
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: An [[InvertedTrope Inversion]]. Jack is shown how much fuller and happier his life would be had he stayed with his girlfriend after college rather than moving to London and starting his rich-but-lonely life and career as a high-powered stockbroker.
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* MarriedToTheJob: In Jack's original life, he didn't really have anything outside of his job as a high-level Wall Street executive. He even spends Christmas Night alone because he doesn't have anywhere to go. His boss plays this straight too, though he proudly claims that it's because he's simply a heartless bastard.
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* MarriedToTheJob: In Jack's original life, he didn't really have anything outside of his job as a high-level Wall Street executive. He even spends Christmas Night alone because he [[LonelyAtTheTop doesn't have anywhere to go.go]]. His boss plays this straight too, though he proudly claims that it's because he's simply a heartless bastard.
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''The Family Man'' is a 2000 "WhatIf" film starring NicolasCage, Tea Leoni and Don Cheadle in which Cage plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his old college girlfriend and wonders [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what might have been]]. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an AlternateUniverse where he married his college girlfriend.
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''The Family Man'' is a 2000 "WhatIf" film starring NicolasCage, Creator/NicolasCage, Tea Leoni and Don Cheadle in which Cage plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his old college girlfriend and wonders [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what might have been]]. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an AlternateUniverse where he married his college girlfriend.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1987.
* MagicalNegro: Cash.
* MarriedToTheJob
* MagicalNegro: Cash.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1987.
1987, although he doesn't realize it until he's shown [[ItsAWonderfulPlot what might have been]] had he not embarked on his high-powered Wall Street career.
* MagicalNegro:Cash.
Cash is the black man who sends Jack to a WhatIf universe to show him what his life might have been if he had taken different choices. It's never stated, though implied, that he's a Jack's guardian angel.
*MarriedToTheJobMarriedToTheJob: In Jack's original life, he didn't really have anything outside of his job as a high-level Wall Street executive. He even spends Christmas Night alone because he doesn't have anywhere to go. His boss plays this straight too, though he proudly claims that it's because he's simply a heartless bastard.
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* OpinionChangingDreamOpinionChangingDream: A mysterious man named Cash shows Jack an alternate life where he chose to start a family with his college girlfriend Kate rather than become a Wall Street executive who doesn't yet realize he's LonelyAtTheTop. Cash describes this as a "glimpse" and thus only temporary, but Jack does wake up in the same place and time before the glimpse began, his downtown bachelor's apartment. The experience leads him to track down Kate and reconnect with her after by giving a heartfelt description of the life he saw they had together.
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The main character is not a straight-up villain. The trope you're looking for is Lonely At The Top.
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* AmbitionIsEvil
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* GenreSavvy: Annie knows right away that this Jack isn't really her father, since he seems confused by everything.
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife because it starts on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' because it starts on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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* ActorAllusion: It's probably not a coincidence that Nic Cage was in both this and PeggySueGotMarried.
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*ActorAllusion: It's probably not a coincidence that Nic Cage was in both this and PeggySueGotMarried.
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife because it stars on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife because it stars starts on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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* ItsAWonderfulPlotItsAWonderfulPlot: An [[InvertedTrope Inversion]].
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1986.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1986.1987.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1988.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1988.1986.
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Not to be confused with the ''FamilyGuy''.''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to have a fling with another woman coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, so Kate isn't really his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck up]]" the best thing to ever happen to him.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to have a fling with another woman coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, so Kate isn't really his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck up]]" the best thing to ever happen to him.him.
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* TheScrooge: Jack Campbell, he got better.
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* TheScrooge: Jack Campbell, before he got better.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted by the end of the film.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted [[spoiler: Subverted by the end of the film.]]
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* FigureItOutYourself: Cash dumps Jack into an alternate life with no information whatsoever about his life, job, etc. So Kate thinks right away that Jack is acting horribly when he forgets their anniversary, doesn't know how to communicate with her, etc. Part of it is that Jack just wants to get back to his own life (initially), but it also stems from the fact he simply doesn't know anything about this new life.
* GenreSavvy: Annie knows right away that this Jack isn't really her father, since he seems confused by everything.
* MistakenForAliens: Annie thinks Jack is an alien who has taken the place of her real father. Jack runs with it so she will help him assimilate to his new life.
-->'''Annie''': Welcome to Earth.
* MsFanservice: Tea Leoni's shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when Jack is taken aback by seeing her nude.
-->'''Annie''': Welcome to Earth.
* MsFanservice: Tea Leoni's shower scene. Doubles as a [=CMoF=] when Jack is taken aback by seeing her nude.
* PrecisionFStrike: During Arnie's WhatTheHellHero scene.
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* SmugSnake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz.
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* SmugSnake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz.Mintz.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to have a fling with another woman coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, so Kate isn't really his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck up]]" the best thing to ever happen to him.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to have a fling with another woman coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, so Kate isn't really his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck up]]" the best thing to ever happen to him.
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moving to YMMV
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* MemeticMutation: This is the film where the [[HarryPartridge "You Want This Cake?"]] exchange comes from.
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife becuase it stars on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife becuase because it stars on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
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* DefrostingTheIceKing: Jack Campbell.
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* DefrostingTheIceKing: DefrostingIceKing: Jack Campbell.
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The film is similar to ItsAWonderfulLife becuase it stars on Christmas Eve. Moreover, by the end, Jack learns that living a quiet [[HappilyEverAfter happy family life]] is preferable to achieving [[LonelyAtTheTop success and wealth at work]].
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends at an airport.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Campbell's boss kinda comes across as much, he even jokes about the idea.
* DefrostingTheIceKing: Jack Campbell.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted by the end of the film.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* ForWantOfANail: The entire meaning of Jack's alternate life, or ''glimpse''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Jack, though he wasn't a really ''evil'' guy to begin with.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Campbell's boss kinda comes across as much, he even jokes about the idea.
* DefrostingTheIceKing: Jack Campbell.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted by the end of the film.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* ForWantOfANail: The entire meaning of Jack's alternate life, or ''glimpse''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Jack, though he wasn't a really ''evil'' guy to begin with.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1988.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1988.OpinionChangingDream
* TheScrooge: Jack Campbell, he got better.
* SmugSnake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz.
* TheScrooge: Jack Campbell, he got better.
* SmugSnake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz.
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TheFamilyMan is a 2000 "WhatIf" film starring NicolasCage, TeaLeoni and DonCheadle in which Cage plays a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his old college girlfriend and wonders [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what might have been]]. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an AlternateUniverse where he married his college girlfriend.
Not to be confused with the FamilyGuy.
MemeticMutation: This is the film where the [[HarryPartridge "You Want This Cake?"]] exchange comes from.
Not to be confused with the FamilyGuy.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot
* MagicalNegro: Cash.
* MarriedToTheJob
* MemeticMutation: This is the film where the [[HarryPartridge "You Want This Cake?"]] exchange comes
* LonelyAtTheTop: Jack's life after moving to London in 1988.
