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The Family Human is a 2000 film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni and Don Cheadle in which Muzzle plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy Wall Street executive who hears from his sometime higher girlfriend and wonders what might have been. He has a fateful meeting with a man who magically sends him to an Alternate Universe where he married his college girlfriend.

The film is similar to It's a Wonderful Life because information technology starts on Christmas Eve. Moreover, past the end, Jack learns that living a quiet happy family life is preferable to achieving success and wealth at work.

Not to be confused with the Family Guy. Also, the Alternate Universe Jack Campbell goes straight to this trope and the film championship.

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This picture show includes examples of:

• Adorably Precocious Child: Annie.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Alan Mintz. Despite his grapheme's name and appearance and the fact that he is played past Saul Rubinek, he complains that Jack is making him miss Christmas with his family.
• Ambition Is Evil:
  • At the outset, Kate worries that her and Jack's relationship will be irreparably hurt if he takes a one-twelvemonth cyberbanking internship. He tries to convince her that this is good for both of them, and he will never stop loving her. Since they clearly broke up at some point that year, and both of them went on to exist wealthy, childless singletons, Kate was in the flick'south moral right all forth.
  • Kate also has this attitude in Jack's glimpse: She opposes Jack's pursuit of a finance chore in New York from the very start and will not hear of leaving behind their comfortable, if tiresome, suburban life. She does agree to try it afterwards that, but Jack decides to let them go along the life she prefers instead.
• Artistic License – Geography: Arnie indicates that he and Jack live in Spousal relationship County, New Jersey. All the same, signs around town indicate that they live in or well-nigh Teaneck in Bergen County, which is not contiguous to Spousal relationship County.
• Asian Store-Owner: At the convenience shop where Jack and Cash first come across.
• All-time Friend: Arnie, to Jack.
• Big Fancy House: Jack shows Kate the 1 being offered to him every bit a perk of joining the New York City investment house.
• Big Friendly Domestic dog: Lucy, the Campbell family unit's Mastiff mix.
• Big Fun: Bill, Jack and Arnie'south overweight, piano-playing neighbour.
• Bookends: The moving-picture show begins and ends at an airport.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Jack near tells Kate the truth well-nigh his glimpse. Mid-sentence, he changes his mind and tells her that he feels like he is living someone else's life.
• Chekhov's Gun: The wheel bong that Cash gives Jack, who knows his glimpse is coming to an end when he hears Annie ringing it.
• Color Motif: The first time we encounter Kate as she is maxim good day to Jack at the airport, she is wearing a multicolored sweater, symbolizing the conflicting emotions in the scene. Throughout Jack'south glimpse, she wears a variety of soft solid colors, symbolizing her contentment with her happy family life. When he finally reconnects with her in the real-life nowadays, she is dressed in head-to-toe black, symbolizing the aggressive, career-driven nature she has developed since she and Jack were last together.
• Cool Car: Jack's Ferrari and Peter'due south Rolls-Royce.
• Decadent Corporate Executive: Jack Campbell's dominate kinda comes across every bit such; he even jokes about the idea.
• Ladylike Love: The "quasi-sexual witty banter" between Jack and his neighbor is a downplayed version.

  Jack: So, when are y'all going to leave that old corpse, Mr. Peterson, and run away with me?

  Mrs. Peterson: You know you could never satisfy me the fashion he does.

  Jack: Ah.

• Cue the Rain: Frozen version: Jack's glimpse begins and ends with gently falling snowfall.
• The Diaper Change: Complete with a Tinkle in the Middle.
• Did Not Go the Girl: Subverted by the end of the film.
• The Dutiful Son: Son-in-law, technically. The reason Jack works at Big Ed'southward Tires is because his father-in-law needed his back up following a eye attack.
• Earn Your Happy Ending
• Effective Knockoff: Kate finds a perfect off-brand copy of the Ermenegildo Zegna suit that Jack had been admiring.
• Family Human being: A successful but lonely businessman who has a What If? scenario in which he has a family with his ex-girlfriend from college instead being a successful man he is at present.
• Family Versus Career:
  • Jack is a rare male example of this dilemma.
  • The real-life Kate has likewise made this choice, becoming a high-powered corporate lawyer who has yet to marry or accept children.
  • Subverted with Alan Mintz. In real life, he has both, but struggles to balance them; in Jack's glimpse, he seems to be amend at integrating the two.
  • Averted with P.Thou. Lassiter, who happily chooses his career every time and simply seems to accept affection for his horses.
• Fancy Dinner:

  Jack: We'll take the terrine of quail chest with shiitake mushrooms to start, and then the veal medallions in raspberry truffle sauce, and the ocean scallops with puréed artichoke hearts.

• Figure It Out Yourself: Greenbacks dumps Jack into an alternate life with no information any about his life, job, etc. So Kate thinks right away that Jack is acting horribly when he forgets their anniversary, doesn't know how to communicate with her, etc. Part of it is that Jack just wants to go back to his own life (initially), only it likewise stems from the fact he simply doesn't know anything near this new life.
• Forgotten Anniversary: Understandable under the circumstances. Jack makes up for it with a Fancy Dinner in The City.
• For Want of a Boom: The entire significant of Jack's alternating life, or glimpse. What if he stayed with his girlfriend Kate in the United States rather than travel to London to jumpstart his career in finance?
• Freak Out: It wouldn't exist a Nicolas Cage movie without a couple.
  • When he wakes up as the husband of Kate and the father of Annie and Josh and has no idea what to make of the situation.
  • When blaming Kate for letting him give up on his dreams of fabulous success in business.

    All right, look, I'k lamentable. I'k lamentable I was such a saint before and I'm such a PRICK now! Just maybe I'm but not the same guy that I was when we got married!

• Girls Beloved Chocolate:
  • Annie feels meliorate about the glimpse version of Jack afterward he assures her that he can learn how to make chocolate milk.

    Jack: Let me know if there's plenty chocolate in in that location, sweetheart.

    Annie: (sips) Mmm. Non bad.

  • Kate eats a piece of chocolate block that Jack had been coveting.
• Adept Ol' Boy: Big Ed, who sounds and dresses similar a Deep South citizen despite being from suburban New Jersey.
• Grande Dame: Mrs. Peterson, Jack's fur-coated, puppy-carrying neighbour.
• Happier Home Movie: Jack watches ane in which he serenades Kate at her birthday party in forepart of the unabridged neighborhood.
• Heel–Face up Plow: Jack, though he wasn't a really evil guy to begin with.
• Hollywood Tone-Deafened:
  • Jack, during performances of "La donna è mobile" (complete with Air Guitar) and "La La La Means I Love You".
  • Kate, while singing "Beast of Burden".
• Bootleg Sweater from Hell: Kate regales the Christmas political party guests with a story of receiving one of these.
• Hyperventilation Bag: Cash gives one to Jack.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Jack goes straight for the liquor at Evelyn's Christmas political party.
• It's a Wonderful Plot: An Inversion. Jack is shown how much fuller and happier his life would exist had he stayed with his girlfriend after college rather than moving to London and starting his rich-merely-lonely life and career as a high-powered stockbroker.
• It'south Cuban: Averted; Jack's friend Nick offers American-made cigars at the Christmas political party.
• Lethal Chef: Evelyn. Her endeavour to seduce Jack by shoving a homemade mushroom puff into his mouth fails as soon every bit he tastes it.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Evelyn makes information technology articulate to Jack that she would like the two of them to appoint in this.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: Jack dozes off while Kate is dressing for sex.
• Lone at the Summit: Jack's life after moving to London in 1987, although he doesn't realize it until he'due south shown what might have been had he non embarked on his loftier-powered Wall Street career.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Averted; Jack and Kate's youthful attempt to have i of these clearly did not succeed.
• Magical Negro: Cash is the blackness man who sends Jack to a What If? universe to show him what his life might have been if he had taken different choices. Information technology's never stated, though implied, that he'southward Jack'southward guardian angel.
• Married to the Job: In Jack'south original life, he didn't really take annihilation outside of his job as a high-level Wall Street executive. He even spends Christmas night alone because he doesn't have anywhere to get. His boss plays this straight too, though he proudly claims that information technology's because he's just a heartless bastard.
• Maybe E'er After: Jack experiences what his life would have been like if he had married his college girlfriend Kate, causing him to realize that he's Lone at the Summit in his job as a Wall Street executive. He tracks down Kate, who is in town for just a few days, to make a heartfelt confession about the life he saw they had together. She takes him upwards on his offer of a cup of coffee to talk things over, but it'south left ambiguous if they will become a couple. Even if they do, their life would plainly even so be very different from the "glimpse" that the angel showed Jack.
• Misery Builds Graphic symbol: After Jack suffers the pain of losing the glimpse of a loving wife and family, he finally begins to lose his single-minded career focus.
• Mistaken for Aliens: Annie thinks Jack is an conflicting who has taken the place of her real male parent. Jack runs with it then she volition help him assimilate to his new life.

  Annie: Welcome to Earth.

• Must Accept Caffeine: Kate groggily asks for "strong coffee" on Christmas morning time.
• Nice to the Waiter: Jack is on a first-name basis with the security guards at his flat building and his office.
• Opinion-Changing Dream: A mysterious man named Greenbacks shows Jack an alternating life where he chose to start a family with his college girlfriend Kate rather than become a Wall Street executive who doesn't yet realize he'due south Lonely at the Top. Cash describes this as a "glimpse" and thus only temporary, only Jack does wake upwards in the same place and time earlier the glimpse began, his downtown bachelor's apartment. The experience leads him to track down Kate and reconnect with her after by giving a heartfelt clarification of the life he saw they had together.
• Over The Pinnacle Christmas Decorations: At Evelyn's house.
• Delight, I Will Do Anything!: Jack tells Peter that he is willing to park cars if it means working for his visitor.
• Precision F-Strike: During Arnie's What the Hell, Hero? scene.
  • This is inverse to "foul" in a very slightly edited version of this scene used as a church teaching resource.
• Race for Your Dear
• Retail Therapy: Subsequently losing his patience with a particularly long trip to the mall, Jack visits the men's department at Bloomingdale's for some of this. Soon after, however, he reaches his Rage Breaking Bespeak after Kate refuses to let him buy the $two,400 suit he is trying on.
• Sassy Secretary: Adelle, Jack's snarky assistant.
• The Scrooge: Jack Campbell, before he got better.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Jack, at start. His standards decline considerably during his glimpse.
• Shower Scene: Kate is Singing in the Shower before her husband Jack interrupts her. Since from Jack's point of view he hasn't seen her in years, he is quite taken aback by seeing her nude.
• Smug Snake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz. He actually tries to appear intimidating to Jack, who from his perspective is just some upstart or even a fraud looking to hit it big, but since Jack already knows Alan equally a timid coworker in the existent globe, he just laughs in his confront.
• Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Jack views his job at Big Ed's Tires this fashion.

  I... spend eight hours a twenty-four hour period selling tires retail. Retail, Kate.

• Bourgeoisie: Jack spends much of his glimpse trying to become used to life here. Afterwards Kate rejects his efforts to relocate the family unit to The Urban center, he finally makes peace with their New Jersey home.
• Moisture Coating Wife: Kate, who resists all of Jack's attempts to ameliorate upon their solid only boring life in heart-class suburbia.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to accept a fling with another adult female coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, then Kate isn't actually his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "fuck up" the best matter to ever happen to him.
• Whole Plot Reference: The Kevin Sorbo movie What If... follows this plotline almost exactly, except the lead male—who is engaged to another woman before he has his glimpse—gave upward his faith in addition to the life he could have had with his ex.
• Workaholic: Jack, who often expects his co-workers to match his addiction at the expense of their personal lives.

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