Is Nicolas Cage Broke?

November 3, 2009 by Celeb Tell

Nicolas Cage Broke – He recently filed a lawsuit against his business manager Samual Levin accusing him of mismanaging millions of dollars.

Reportedly, Cage owes the over $6 million in taxes, along with other debts.

The lawsuit states “(Levin) lined his pockets with several million dollars in business management fees while sending Cage down a path toward financial ruin. Cage relied on Levin to handle his financial affairs to ensure that he and his family would have a financially secure future built on the foundation of the substantial monies Cage earned through years of hard work … He is now forced to sell major assets and investments at a significant loss and is faced with huge tax liabilities because of Levin’s incompetence, misrepresentations and recklessness.”

As well as over $6 million in taxes due he also has $5.5 million in unpaid mortgage and then a $2 million loan he is still trying to settle.

According to the lawsuit he is facing losses of up to $20 million in total.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Cage began pulling in multi-million dollar salaries in the 1990s. This apparently began with The Rock (1996) at $4 million, followed by his famous John Travolta plastic surgery-switcheroo action thriller Face/Off the next year, at $7 million. Since then, his marquee-heavy paydays have climbed into the double digits and stayed there, movie after movie.

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Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is the quintessential Wall Street shark, scoring killer deals by day and shallow escort sex by night. His round-the-clock routine of empty luxuries is disturbed one lonely Christmas Eve when a gun-packing punk (Don Cheadle)--perhaps an angel of mercy--responds to an altruistic gesture from Jack by giving him "a glimpse" of the life he could have had. Could have, that is, if he had married the girlfriend (Téa Leoni) he'd abandoned 13 years earlier, raised two adorable children, worked in his father-in-law's retail tire outlet, and lived happily ever after in suburban New Jersey. Thrust into this "glimpse" of the path not taken, Jack's a single-malt man in a lite-brew world, wondering if he'll ever return to his "better" life of callous wealth and solitude--or if he even wants to.

Carp all you want about this derivative premise, with its marginal stereotypes and biased embrace of domestic bliss and dirty diapers. The simple fact is, The Family Man works like a charm. Under the assured direction of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), this holiday crowd-pleaser offers comedy and chemistry in equal measure, making the hilarity of Jack's predicament a smooth catalyst for that rarest of movie romances: the marital love story. Leoni is Cage's perfect match as Jack's idealized but imperfect wife, and the movie's appeal largely derives from its awareness that any life has its pleasures and pains. While it only flirts with the dark desperation that makes It's a Wonderful Life a classic predecessor, The Family Man is an irresistible what-if fantasy, and even its debatable ending rides on a wave of genuine warmth and sentiment. --Jeff Shannon

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Entertaining and Educational

Review Date: May 2, 2010

Reviewer: Cleo, USA

This movie sold me on the philosophy that you should build yourself up before starting a family so you have more to offer your kids. Everyone is afraid of (1) not having enough TIME with their kids and (2) not having ENOUGH money. This message that I derived from this movie has stuck with me since seeing the film many years ago. It's a fun movie that is good to watch with older kids during Christmas time but for me, it is better than fun. It's really made me think about how many nice people are considered working middle class who don't have a lot to show for it but they're not stupider than people who financially better off. So what's missing from our country's culture that there are so many working families when America is still known as the Land of Opportunity and the top pick for immigration? I think we should be specifically supporting everyone who is working poor or officially middle class to get their kids into the medical profession not the high finance and legal professions. Medical studies should be part of the core curriculum. It doesn't matter if kids take a shorter program in nursing if they don't feel confident about doing a long stint in medical school. If your son loves GI JOE, let him know that he can win more battles if he can perform triage on the battlefield. Nurses can make a low 6 figure salary. Doctors can make a middle to high 6 figure salary just as a private practitioner seeing 18.5 patients per day. I look around and I think Americans are too smart to not be earning more on average. We need more/most kids to become medical professions. It's the course of study that will enrich your personal life not just your professional one. Another thing that this movie made me think about is the good that China's One Child Policy brought about because when citizens simply don't enjoy the quality of life of the American Dream, people really shouldn't be thinking about making big families until the would-be parents are in a secure place in their own lives. It's terrible to have children in a struggling situation. This film is a companion piece to It's a Wonderful Life.

Angelic Christmas-period Entertainment

Review Date: April 3, 2010

Reviewer: Joe B. Woolbright, Chicago, IL, US

Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a successful, work-obsessed Wall Street businessman who "has everything he needs". However, when he intervenes in what looks like a store hold-up, the `hold-up man' (Don Cheadle playing the angel role, though it's never explicitly stated) gives him a `glimpse' into what his life would have been like if he'd married his college sweetheart Kate (Téa Leoni) thirteen years previously.

And so Jack wakes up on Christmas morning to find himself married with two children, holding down a job as a car tyre salesman, and with a station wagon in place of his beloved Ferrarri...

This being a Christmas feel-good movie, it's not hard to predict how the film is going to end, so the film has to stand or fall on how much fun you're going to have along the way. Fortunately, thanks to stand-out performances from both Cage and Leoni (previously wasted in the atrocious Deep Impact, this will hopefully lead to bigger and better things), The Family Man proves to be extremely enjoyable and even manages to avoid the pitfalls of cloying sentimentality that usually ruin films like this.

Cage is superb in the film, which is just as well, given that he's in every scene. Wisely, he has reined in his -to put it politely- slight tendency to overact, and his reactions to his sudden predicament are believable and convincing.

GREAT MESSAGE

Review Date: March 9, 2010

Reviewer: Linda Stumpf, Pittsburgh, PA United States

Makes my top favorite movies...I love the message this movie offers....the stuff and status is not as important and keeping the ones you love close. Terrific movie for both men and women. Get it, watch it, love it!! Enjoy!!

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