Starting with a scene of two
lovers saying goodbye at an airport Kate Reynolds begs Jack Campbell not to
travel to London to pursue his career and stay with her to start a family, but
years later Jack is a workaholic Wall Street Banker who on Christmas Eve is
preparing for a big meeting the next day.
With no family to think of Jack’s
life has been dedicated to climbing the career ladder, but a chance meeting
with a would-be robber gives him the opportunity to see what life would have
been like if he had stayed with his college sweetheart.
As he’s woken on Christmas Day by his wife and children,
Jack is no longer living in his New York apartment, but a small house in
suburbia with a job working for his father-in-law in a tyre factory.
Jack craves to get back
to his fast paced solitary life, but as he learns to enjoy the family life he
settles into his role of husband and father until the time comes for the
glimpse into his alternative life to end returning him to his normal life.
Determined to re-connect with Kate, Jack tracks her down
just before she moves to Paris in a bid to start again and try to create the
family they could have had, but will she feel the same?
A warm thought provoking movie starring Nicholas Cage &
Téa Leoni which I found an enjoyable watch – one to put on your ‘to watch
list’.
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