![]() 'Camel-toe' is an insulting term used by schoolboys to describe teenage girls who wear clothes so tight that they expose the cleft of their vaginas. It's a brisk, modest film and Steven Conrad's script taught me a new word. Occasionally, the film edges towards sentimentality, only to be pulled back by a barbed line, a deflating remark in Cage's voiceover or an unexpected incident. The Weather Man is an acute study of a father-son relationship that, possibly because of the Chicago setting, makes one think of Saul Bellow. Their relationship parallels that between Paul Scofield as the fastidious literary intellectual and Ralph Fiennes as his self-deceiving son in Quiz Show. The Weather Man is a 2005 film about a Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, who debates whether professional and personal success are. Most significantly, nothing he does impresses his father, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist suffering from terminal cancer (a rheumy-eyed Michael Caine sporting his best American accent to date). They treat him like a clown and he regards himself as the human equivalent of junk food. A hilarious running gag has TV viewers shouting 'weather man' and pelting him with junk food from passing cars. Only his performances on screen work out, but he doesn't win respect. He's separated from his wife, his teenage kids are deeply disturbed and everything he says and does goes disastrously wrong. ![]() ![]() Sorrow and laughter go hand in hand as his life falls apart. ![]() It's winter, the Windy City is colder, more blustery than ever, and Dave is at the end of his tether. ![]()
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