The Family Man

 The Family Man (2000)

Starring Nicholas Cage, Téa Leoni, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek, and Don Cheadle

Directed by Brett Ratner

Written by David Diamond and David Weissman

Click here for my Letterboxd review

The RyMickey Rating:  B

Movie Review - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

Starring Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, Kathryn Hahn, James Brolin, Ed Helms, David Koechner, Jordana Spiro, Ken Jeong, and Alan Thicke(!)

Directed by Neil Brennen

I laughed surprisingly more than I thought I was going to during The Goods. Sure, Jeremy Piven is a prick (I don't think he was playing a character other than himself), but he was pretty damn funny as was his team of car salesmen (and woman -- the humorous Kathryn Hahn, who was so good in the serious Revolutionary Road) who travel to a small town in order to help James Brolin save his faltering car dealership.

There's really not much else here to discuss as there's no story other than what I wrote above. Similarly to this summer's The Hangover (which I didn't really care for either), this movie had me laughing for the first forty minutes or so, and then it kind of fell flat. That being said, I do think that I laughed more in this than during The Hangover and I liked the actors in this quite a bit more. I know everyone loved that raunchy Vegas movie back in June, but I'm gonna give this one a rating that's a half point higher.

The RyMickey Rating: C-