(rated PG-13, approx. 120 mins.)
Nicolas Cage stars as Jack Campbell, a cold-hearted, bachelor millionaire running a hot shot billion dollar Wall Street company, who files ex-girlfriends away like old tax returns and blows his old Auntie off for Christmas dinner. Except this Christmas he wakes up, (or is he in the middle of a nightmare) that sends him to Suburbia from hell. A land of mini vans instead of Porsches, duplexes instead of sky rises, and little screaming, dirty-diapered kids. His wife (Tea Leoni) is the college sweetheart he left at an airport the day some of us make that decision to take the “road less traveled”, the same day he chose work over love. It’s a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge as Cage sees his Christmas future (or it this case present) in a surreal existence teaching the value of love because love is all that really matters. While laugh out loud funny with some moments comparable to Cage’s “Honeymoon In Vegas” the story could have been cut by twenty minutes and saved us of our biggest Chistmas wish: A snappier outcome to what is already obviously going to happen.