Although The Weather Man has some very good acting in it, I can't really think of any reason why it was made, except that screenwriter needed a cathartic release for some issues he had with his father. This is an extremely depressing film, and so difficult to watch that I actually couldn't get through it—and I watch every movie Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine make.Nicolas Cage plays the role that endears him in audiences' hearts the most: a well-meaning but hapless hero trying to get his ducks in a row. His ex-wife, Hope Davis, vehemently hates him and even though they try to get along for the sake of their children, Gemmenne de la Pena and Nicholas Hoult, their group therapy sessions don't go well. He tries to help his children through their troubles while dealing with his own problems at work and tense relationship with his father, Michael Caine.If you have issues with your father, I highly recommend you stay far away from this movie, since the scenes with Michael Caine will probably send you in search of your hankie. Then again, if you have a relatively perfect life with no problems with your parents, children, or ex-spouse, you probably won't want to sit through such a depressing movie. Die-hard fans of Nicky Cage might be able to watch it in its entirety, though, since he does do a very good job.

I love this kind of movie and wish more could be like it. A good story and writing with a flawed main character who makes mistakes. Good use of music and with an atmosphere I could just sink into. It didn't glamorize anything. Things were what they were. I dig the realistic approach.Nicolas plays a great character and loved all his family members as well. Love the kind of movie it is since it is a comedy but not necessarily an obvious one, but tons of stuff I laughed at.Has sort of a dry weird sense of humor throughout and I wish I could see him do more movies like that. It works well for him.

This is an old school dramedy with lots of family references (separation, teenage kids, dying father etc.). It revolves around a mid-town TV weatherman who made some mistakes in his personal life that led him to lose control of his life.Its tone is far from uplifting and the funny moments are dark somehow.Cage gives a good performance but his character isn't that likable and at some point his presence looks one-dimensional and might bore you when you realize that, through-out the movie, he hasn't evolved.Anyway. If you catch it on TV you might want to check it out. Otherwise not to many reasons to search for it.

Nicolas Cage has always been a wonder to me. Nicolas Cage has always played the same dead-pan character---same as Kevin Costner. I have been fearing that a movie starring Nick (and same with Kevin -- at least Waterworld had action) would come out and be as bland as his acting; now it has. This biography of a normal, uneventful, topically messed-up life of the average, albeit rich, human being is just the kind of movie that would expose Nick's underachieving style of acting that underrates the talent an actor of his status has.The plot is about a man finding himself by overcoming the burden of his wants for the burden of his needs. The writers missed two very crucial takes that would have clearly shown his former life was going to have meaning without him by having the deer hunt with his daughter that would be her "rock" (meaning) during her bland life and David's Father last scene in the car telling him, "it's not just wind, it's the paper you write on while telling your stories to your reader's. David, you and I are the same-- we tell fiction to an eager audience that cares."If I wanted to view this movie again, I would become a psychiatrist or an attorney for which this movie must be a complete bore.