The Family Man (1979 film)

The Family Man is a 1979 television film, directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Ed Asner and Meredith Baxter Birney.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Edward Asner as Eddie Madden
 * Meredith Baxter Birney as Mercedes Cole
 * Anne Jackson as Maggie Madden
 * Dick Latessa as Fred
 * Michael Kirby as Walter
 * Michael Wincott as Charlie
 * Martin Short as Louie
 * Gordon Thomson as Dance Instructor
 * Michael Ironside as Bartender

Reception
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".