What is the meaning of the bell in The Family Man?
In The Family Man (2000), Cash gives Jack a bicycle bell when they stop in the Ferrari. Jack asks "So you're going to come every time I ring this?" but Cash never answers.
Some time later, Jack did ring the bell, but nothing happens. Instead, Annie comes and takes it from him.
I feel like the bell is a very significant part of the movie, but I just can't put it into words.
What is the meaning of the bell?
Best Answer
Here's the problem with The Family Man; Brett Ratner isn't a great storyteller. The guy was largely in the music video business when he was asked to take on this movie. The script wasn't great either, it was a poor man's It's A Wonderful Life (even going so far as to borrow the whole bell idea as an audible cue). So, you need to take it with a grain of salt that Cash doesn't appear when Jack first rings the bell. In fact, Don Cheedle was grossly under-utilized in the movie, which I see as a huge failure on Ratner's part.
At either rate, the bell does finally get rung by Jack's daughter when he teaches her how to ride a bike. At this point, Jack has fallen in love with his "what could have been" life, and the bell sound signifies that he's going to have to go back. And he knows it, which is why he immediately looks disappointed after hearing it.
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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip.What happened to Jack in family man?
Now, through the paranormal intervention of a taxi driver (Cheadle) who acts as his guide, or portal, or something, Jack goes to sleep as a wealthy bachelor and awakens in a parallel time-track where apparently he did fly back from London, marry Kate and father two children.The Family Man - Ring a bell
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