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The Review - MOVIES With KAREN KRIZANOVICH
 
Area of depression over comedy

THE WEATHERMAN - Directed by Gore Verbinski
Certificate 15

DIRECTOR Gore Verbinski’s films – Mousehunt and The Ring amongst them – have a bit of a downer built into them. This does not mean, as in the case of Pirates of the Caribbean, that Verbinski’s films are always full of dips and ebbs. The Weatherman falls into the former category, however, being a somewhat dreary comedy with a well-intentioned centre.
Alas the film doesn’t quite reach the heights it wants to achieve. Nicolas Cage plays a local Chicago celebrity – a TV weather reporter – trying to make sense of his failed personal life. He has split with his wife (Hope Davis, who seems to be taking over wifey roles with great regularity).
He wants to earn the respect of his successful novelist father (Michael Caine, pictured below with Cage) and to be a father to his two children, one of whom is taking a counsellor to be his spiritual father while the other, an overweight daughter, tries her best to make her father seem more inept than ever.
Cage, with bad hair and little sympathy in the way of character delineation, puts in a wonderful if spare performance as we watch his unremitting misery. It is as if being a weather man makes his life as temporal and unpredictable as the weather itself and like the weather there is little to be done to improve matters.
It isn’t bad enough that, as the local celeb, Cage’s character gets soaked by passing motorists who can’t seem to help flinging their drinks and food at him as they drive by.
By turns a depressed-feeling comedy which has, at its core, some savoury moments, The Weather Man is not a laugh riot.
It has, however, within its grey and frustrated shell, a sweetmeat at its centre.
The moral of the story? Life is mysterious and even the famous have their insurmountable problems.
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