Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life — his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children — is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn’t seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.

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I saw this over the weekend, and its pretty much one of the best films I’ve seen in the longest time. Nicolas Cage is awesome as per usual. Anyway the reason I wanted to say something about the film is this one scene that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

It is brought about by Nic Cage sat across from the house where his estranged family is living, and he wonders ‘would things be different if I had remembered the tartar saue?’

We cut to the past, and his wife is telling him, DONT… FORGET… THE TARTAR SAUCE. To which Cage replies, just put the order in and stop busting my you know whats. She says thats the problem you always have listen to me! And he goes, I HEARD YOU! TARTAR SAUCE!!!

He goes out and walks down the street while his inner monologue kicks in:

Tartar sauce, Tartar sauce, Tartar sauce… Tartar sauce, Tartar sauce, Tartar Sauce, Tartar sauce… [He stops at the curb and notices a girl's ass] Man I would like to put my face in there… [Looks hard at her ass] Right in there… Tartar sauce… My hips are cold. Tartar sauce. Thats when you know its cold… I like eating pussy. Tartar sauce. A lotta guys don’t. Well maybe they do, maybe thats just black guys. Tartar sauce. What happened to the guy who was trying to go around the world in a balloon? Did he make it? I should put some espionage or stolen plutonium in my novel. Tartar sauce. Spice it up. Fuck it’s cold… Neil Young? Why am I thinking about Neil Young? Neil Diamond… Neil… There’s not a lot of famous Neils. Is this Wednesday? I wish I had two dicks. I though the whole family was gonna learn Spanish together this year. That never really happened. I haven’t had a Spanish omlette in a long time. [Lights change] Here we go…

He obviously forgets the Tartar sauce and they split up as a result.

Anyway, go watch it.