The Family Man | |
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Genre | Drama Romance |
Based on | novel by Thomas Gallagher |
Written by | William Hanley |
Directed by | Glenn Jordan |
Starring | Ed Asner Meredith Baxter Birney Anne Jackson |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Freyda Rothstein David Susskind |
Producers | Ruth E. Carter (as Ruth Carter) Peter Dohanos |
Cinematography | Zale Magder |
Editors | Sidney Katz John Wright |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Production company | Time Life Television |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | December 19, 1979 |
The Family Man is a 1979 television film, directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Ed Asner and Meredith Baxter Birney.
Asner plays a prosperous Irish-born New Yorker who falls in love with a young pianist and is tempted to be unfaithful to his wife for the first time.[1]
Writing in the New York Times, Tom Buckley gave the film a bad review, calling the script "resolutely undramatic, stilted and humorless", the directing "like stretching taffy" and Asner's accent "intermittent and unconvincing".[1]