The Family Man

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".