The Family Man

Intro

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• right off the bat
• cheesy
• Jimmy Stewart

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Have you ever wondered about the decisions in your life and how things could be different. What would have happened if you had made a different choice about your career, friends, or family? Tanis and Chad explore the possibilities.

Dialog

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Tanis

Chad

Tanis:  You know that movie It’s A Wonderful Life?

Chad:  Yeah.

Tanis:  Um, there’s uh, modern day version of it out now called The Family Man. I don’t know if you’ve seen it or heard of it or anything?

Chad:  I have. Yeah, the one with Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni?

Tanis:  Yeah, yeah, that one.

Chad:  Yeah, it’s, I thought, it was a really great movie in that it, you know, showed this, this man who had it all in the business world…

Tanis:  Uh huh.

Chad:  Who, what, how could life be different if he would have chosen his, his college sweetheart and I often having, you know, having had kids of my own pretty quickly early on in life, wondered how would it have been different if I would have waited.

Tanis:  Do you think about stuff like that? I mean ‘cause me watching that movie, I’m single and

I didn’t go down that path right away… but I don’t even think about it, you know, so I maybe kind of now, being in both worlds, do you think back on other choices you could have made?

Chad:  Yeah. The the movie caused me to be pretty introspective about my, you know, post college decisions uh, to get married right off the bat and I don’t regret any, any part of it at all, any of my decisions, but you know I think a career is pretty hard to get started while your having kids early on and I see that Nicolas Cage’s character, he was able to rise through the corporate ladder quicker that he could have with kids maybe.

Tanis:  Well, I think it’s, it’s totally true or you know it’s funny just watching this corporate guy trying to, you know, learn the the value of like having a wife who loves him and kids. I, I liked that part of the movie, but, um, I though the end was kind of cheesy, I mean, you have to admit it.

Chad:  It maybe stunk of some cheese. I think it was pretty on the money as far as how a guy might feel when comparing the two ways to go about life.

Tanis:  No, I definitely agree there but, it was just a bit out of the realm of believability for me.

Chad:  Yeah, well, I just really enjoyed the, uh, the part where he was the auto sales guy!

Tanis:  Oh, I loved that!

Chad:  I mean just seeing him in that role was pretty funny!

Tanis:  Right, especially when he’s trying to, you know, used to being such a big weeler dealer. I liked it when he had to go drive a mini van after he’d been driving a Ferarri around. I thought that was pretty funny.

 

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