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The Weather Man (2005)
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SXSW 2008: The Promotion
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"The Promotion is such an insightfully hilarious and beautifully bittersweet movie about the American and human spirits that I wish Steven Conrad had always been directing his scripts. Conrad previously wrote The Weather Man and The Pursuit of Happyness, both of which can be felt here as less evolved ancestors; structurally they’re quite the same, while The Promotion shares some of the offbeat tone of Weather Man and a lot of the heart of Happyness. But there’s a story in The Promotion that is far more universal, relatable and familiar, which makes this one much, much funnier and much, much more sympathetic. And certainly Conrad’s ability to balance the sweet and the salty, as a director, is responsible for most of the film’s success. One scene in particular exemplifies the movie best: John C. Reilly, as the new-to-Chicago “Richard”, sits opposite four supermarket executives, interviewing for a promotion to be a full-on store manager, and he’s just had to defend how his Canadian-nes ... "
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The Weather Man - Nine Lives
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"By Tricia Olszewski In The Weather Man, director Gore Verbinski has achieved the impossible. It’s not getting another terrific sad-sack performance from star Nicolas Cage, who has already wrenched guts in Leaving Las Vegas and personified writerly angst in Adaptation. And it’s not taking Steve Conrad’s doggedly miserable script and presenting it as a credible portrayal of midlife crisis instead of a piled-on heap of melodrama. Rather, the accomplishment is this: making Bob Seger’s Chevy-pushing “Like a Rock” poignant again (or, perhaps more accurately, for the first time). Yes, its initial mention—the opening line of a speech that hapless David (Cage) gives at a gathering to celebrate his sick father, Robert (Michael Caine)—seems a bit ludicrous. But when the highbrow Robert, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, plays the song while sitting with David in his car and asks him to explain how exactly the lyrics relate to him—we ... "
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stirs up plenty of after-thoughts
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"I think the bulk of what I call "good films" tend to fall into one of two categories: either they're engaging and compelling in the moment but then quickly fade from my awareness, or they're just fine while I'm watching them, but then grow in my consciousness as time passes. (I guess what I consider "great films" manage to accomplish both—they're equally compelling during and long after the viewing.) The Weather Man falls into the second "good film" category for me. It was a perfectly fine way to spend a couple of hours this past Friday night, but I wasn't utterly taken by the film as I watched it. In the couple of days since I've watched it, though, the film and its characters have taken on a much larger life in my imagination and thoughts. The characters are so real, both in their brokenness and in their small, hopeful desires and efforts to pull themselves above their failings. They simultaneously love and despise each other in such real, believable ways, and they struggle to m ... "
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