In every man’s life, he comes to a fork in the road and must make a decision as to which path he takes.
What if you were able to have a glimpse of the path you didn’t take and realized how truly fulfilling your life could have been?
Jack Campbell (Nicholas Cage) is a successful investment broker working and living in New York City. On Christmas Eve, while shopping in a convenience store, a shopper (Don Cheadle) pulls a gun on the cashier. Jack diffuses the situation and persuades him to put the gun away. Jack and the gunman exit the store together and start talking. Towards the end of their conversation, Jack tries to convince the gunman that he needs professional help. The man laughs in his face and then asks Jack what more he needs out of his own life. Jack’s response is simply, “I got everything I need.” In this life, perhaps, but a new dawn will allow Jack a glimpse of the path he didn’t choose.
Jack wakes up the next day to find himself sleeping next to his college girlfriend, Kate (Tea Leoni), in a house he doesn’t recognize, with children he has never seen before. Startled, he leaves the house and drives back into the city. Lack of recognition at his apartment building and place of business add to his frustration. He then runs into the gunman from the previous night who, in angelic fashion, explains he has granted Jack a glimpse of the life he left behind.
What transpires is an education not found in business school or the boardroom; it’s the lesson learned as a family man.
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