The Family Man

The Family Man (2000)

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Corrected entry: When Jack Campbell purchases rock salt (for $4.99), the female customer ahead of him has a bottle of Diet Coke on the counter. The angel calls out '99 cents darling' and she hands over a one-dollar bill. The angel then not only says 'out of ten' but promptly hands the female customer $ 9.01 in change. (01:38:39)

Correction: There isn't a mistake but it isn't a gift. It's a test to see if she would speak up and say that she only gave him a dollar and that he gave her too much change. That's why he says " Character. You see that? And for what, a lousy nine bucks?"

Corrected entry: When Jack first shows up in his family home and is trying to leave he runs into Kate's parents. He asks to borrow her dad's Cadillac and begrudgingly he finally gets jacked the keys, but when he runs outside he gets inside the family minivan. (00:19:15 - 00:20:25)

Correction: When Jack asks his father in law for the keys to his Cadillac, his father in law tells him no, there is a perfectly good minivan in the driveway - he grabs the keys from the key hanger and hands them to Jack.

Corrected entry: When Jack has gone to Kate's apartment, her assistant interrupts them, complaining about working for her "ex-boss" on Christmas Eve. Kate looks at her and says, "You weren't complaining when I gave you that pot of bag" instead of "bag of pot."

Correction: She says "Prada bag", not pot of bag.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: This DVD has the funniest outake reel I have ever seen. It is worth the price of the DVD even if you didn't like the movie.

Tiffany Fife

Correction: This is not valid trivia, it is the submitter's opinion. I rented the movie just to see the outtake reel and it's not that funny. To each his/her own.

Corrected entry: In more than one occasion, including the wedding anniversary, Jack and Kate say they've been married for 13 years. However, after they're coming back home from the mall, Kate tells Jack they got married because she was pregnant with Annie, which would make the girl at least 12 years old. Actually, she can't be more than 6 or 7.

Correction: Kate never says they got married because she was pregnant with Annie. She just says that Annie was a surprise. Even married couples can have an unplanned pregnancy.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack & Kate go out for dinner on their anniversary, Kate's hair parting keeps changing sides.

Correction: I watched the scene numerous times, and the part does not change sides - it starts just slightly left of center (her left).

Corrected entry: When Nicholas Cage goes off on Christmas morning the clock says 9.00, however later on the wife says that he left the house at 7:30am.

Correction: There is absolutely no clock in any of the scenes before Jack leaves that says 9:00 a.m. The clock and the watch on the nightstand by the bed seems to show a few minutes before 8:00.

Corrected entry: When Nicholas Cage goes back to his office after he changes to the family man. He pulls up to his office building and his is the only vehicle there. After getting kicked out of the building he gets picked up by the angel and they drive around the block. He then gets out of the angel's car, and there is a big yellow truck right behind his car with snow all over the windshield, so it's obviously been parked there for a while.

Correction: When Jack pulls in front of the office, it's a tight shot, you can only see a few feet in front and behind the car as it parks - there is no shot showing behind the car. In the subsequent scene, the yellow truck discussed is at least a car length back.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack takes Kate to dinner in the city for their anniversary, he asks for red wine by the glass and they are served white wine in the next scene.

Correction: The flute glasses are originally filled with water which you do see in the following scene. In the following scenes, they actually are drinking red wine.

Corrected entry: When Jack attends a Christmas party with his "new" wife, one of his "old" friends (I think his name was Bill) tells him that he is going to have triple bypass surgery the next day. However, 2 days later, when they go bowling, Bill is part of the team.

Correction: The bowling scene happens after they are at the mall. When the Campbells pull up to the mall there is a big sign that says January/February clearance. It's weeks later.

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie when Kate is packing for Paris, she is talking to her assistant about a "bag of pot". In actuality she tells her assistant a "Pot of bag".

Correction: She actually tells her something about not hearing her complain when she opened the "Prada Bag" she had given her the day before.

Continuity mistake: When Jack is watching CNBC the bottle of Yoohoo changes position when he yells "thats my deal" and then it changes back again.

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Question: In the scene on the stairs with the chocolate cake when he pushes cake in Kate's face - was that supposed to happen? I ask because she is laughing so hard, and after a second or 2, Nicolas looks up as if to look at the director.

Answer: Http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Family-Man, -The.html ///// In section 69 /// jack (out of breath) I want it... She looks at him, then takes the whole piece in her hand and smooshes it right in his mouth... Beat. Then, Jack starts laughing... jack (CONT'D) Thank you... KATE It's good, right? He takes a big clump of it and smooshes it in her mouth. They stay there a moment, lying on the stairs, feeding each other cake, laughing. Jack leans back on the stairs. He looks at Kate's face, practically covered in cake, smiling, and realises... ...he hasn't laughed like this in thirteen years. Then.

Triviani

Is it clear if that's a transcript of the film or the original shooting script? Because if the former it doesn't really answer the question.

Jon Sandys

That's the original script. A transcript of the film after it has come out does not contain blocking information or information about the character's mindset. Those only contain dialogue and the name of the music scores playing similar to movie subtitles. An original script contains blocking and the character's mindset to give the actors/film crew an idea of what to do and the meaning of the scene.

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