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A remake of a remake

posted 13 years ago by jbowmore
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• The Family Man starring Nicolas Cage (2000 film, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/)
– a successful and single man sees what life would be like if he had put a family ahead of career.

• Comfort and Joy starring Nancy McKeon (2003 Lifetime, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383278/)
– a successful and single woman sees what life would be like if she had put a family ahead of career.

• A Family Thanksgiving starring Daphne Zuniga (2010 Hallmark http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1738342/)
– a successful and single woman sees what life would be like if she had put a family ahead of career.

Very similar themes
• Eve's Christmas starring Elisa Donovan (2004 Canadian TV, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427224/)
– a successful and single woman goes back in time to when she chose career over marriage.

• The Christmas Clause starring Lea Thompson (2008 Canadian TV, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343029/)
– a wife and mother sees what life would be like if she had put a career ahead of a family.

[–] rizdek 9 years ago

And then...Maid to Order starring Ally Sheedy, Beverly D'Angelo and Tom Skerritt, where a rich girl's life is magically transformed such that she is poor and her family doesn't know her. She has to get a job as a maid. She only escapes this alternate life when she becomes a kinder generous person.

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.