The Weather Man (2005)

Release date: 2005-10-28
Country: USA|Germany
Language: English
Director: Gore Verbinski
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Escape Artists, Kumar Mobiliengesellschaft mbH & Co. Projekt Nr. 2 KG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 1h 42min

Storyline

Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well, while his personal life, his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children, is spiralling downward. Despite being loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this movie, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

Plot Keywords

winter, reference to thomas jefferson, weather report, child molestation, female nudity, romantic rivalry, existentialism, waiting in line, female frontal nudity, breasts, bare chested male, boy, divorcee, overweight child, black comedy, ex husband ex wife relationship, dysfunctional family, cemetery, celebrity, archery

Short Review

It's a deeply honest and comic performance and seems filled with all the genuine humiliations that one imagines Cage himself has suffered in the past 10 years.