The drive for financial security is ingrained in the male personality. This drive is well-meaning. It is there biologically so that men will overcome pain to provide for those they love.

Unfortunately, the drive for financial security can overpower the motive of love and become self-serving.

The film The Family Man dramatises this struggle. A successful man on Wall Street sees the life he could have had with a loving family.

The film is appropriately set at Christmas time. A time when the stress between family and material wealth is at its peak.