As the boss (Willem Dafoe) of a Chicago-based headhunter prepares to retire, Dane Jensen (Gerard Butler), who works at the Blackridge Recruiting agency arranging jobs for engineers, vies to achieve his longtime goal of taking over the company going head-to-head with his ambitious rival, Lynn Vogel (Alison Brie). However, Dane's 10-year-old son, Ryan (Maxwell Jenkins), is suddenly diagnosed with cancer and his professional priorities at work and personal priorities at home beg... (Full plot summary below)
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As the boss (Willem Dafoe) of a Chicago-based headhunter prepares to retire, Dane Jensen (Gerard Butler), who works at the Blackridge Recruiting agency arranging jobs for engineers, vies to achieve his longtime goal of taking over the company going head-to-head with his ambitious rival, Lynn Vogel (Alison Brie). However, Dane's 10-year-old son, Ryan (Maxwell Jenkins), is suddenly diagnosed with cancer and his professional priorities at work and personal priorities at home begin to clash with one another.
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekWarmed-over 'Glengarry Glen Ross' mixed with afternoon soap opera...watching the mawkish movie might make you gag on its mixture of bluster and treacle. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfButler's a bit out of his league here, but few actors could make blah writing stand up and sing, with most of "A Family Man" too generic, especially when it's away from the war at home. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeThe boy's suffering certainly serves the classic disabled-person-as-inspiration function for his father, whilst the boy himself gains nothing except, perhaps, a soupçon more attention. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonSome truths about corporate greed and absentee parenting are buried deep within this superficial redemption melodrama that's more predictable than provocative. |
| ObserverRex ReedIt is still Gerard Butler who keeps it all afloat, negotiating rough waters with superior skill. |
| Film InquiryAlexandra HepworthA Family Man is enjoyable at times but falls into the preconceived pitfalls that so many similar films have. |
| Under the RadarStephen MayneA Family Man isn't good, but it's far better than its lazy foundations and cheap motivations deserve. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzWhenever the movie reaches for poetry it lands somewhere in a chain drugstore's greeting card aisle, trying to choose between one that shows an adorable child laughing in a Photoshopped field of sunlit daisies, one that tries for gallows humor but isn't really that funny, and a third with a quote about mortality and wisdom only seems thoughtful because it's written in cursive. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreScreenwriter Bill Dubuque — forget that name — illustrates Dane’s sense of responsibility and victimhood by scribbling the clunkiest, clumsiest, most tin-eared “sex” scene in the history of the big screen. If that online screenwriting course offers a refund, pal, GRAB it. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark Dujsik[A]t a certain point, we simply start to believe that Dane is a bad guy through and through. |
