mr. destiny 3 . 5/5 starsmr . destiny theme be recycle from many film span many different year . it theme range from recent spoof on such plot ( see scrooged ) and to the same and more serious and dramatic notion that work in it a wonderful life and and a century earlier in the story of scrooge a tell by charles dickens in a christmas carol . it involve an ungrateful man be take on a guided tour of his life and and witness how his life could have be ( or would have be ) first hand . in most of these type of movie the guardian angel rescue a man from ungratefulness and show him his life in retrospect and or how it could have be . should have be . would have be . in this case we be show a businessman name larry ( james belushi ) . he hat his life . he live with an unexciting wife ( linda hamilton ) and yearn for a big life with big meaning . if only he have hit the ball at the state championship in high school year ago . he be convince his life would have be well . i guess he remember this seemingly small moment of his life because it make a big impact on his subconscious side and but i doubt a grown man would yearn for one single act from high school . still and it work in the movie . anyway and larry be drive home from work one night and where he be a penpusher along with jon lovitz and when his car break down . he wander into a bar look for a pay phone and and reluctantly decide to tell the bartender ( michael caine ) about the way his life be turn out . this be where we first see him remember his childhood baseball strike out . the bartender listens and nod and apparently not worry about any other customer . this be probably due to the fact that the bar and though old and tattered and seem to have never be occupy by any living human save these two men . in fact and larry even make a comment about never see the bar before . this be most likely for a certain reason that the audience be expect before larry . so the bartender and who may as well be an angel of god incarnate and just like clarence and fix larry a special drink of his and which end up put larry life on reverse and show him what his life would have be like if he have hit the home run all those year before . but larry have no idea of any change at first and just like jimmy stewart do not realize that clarence have erase his life until he go into the bar and get kick out larry continue to be oblivious to any change until he go to his home to find the lawn different outside and and a large and wrestler type man occupy his home . larry soon find out his life would indeed have be very different have he hit the home run . instead of marry linda hamilton he marry rene russo and move into a large mansion with child . he find out that jon lovitz be no longer his friend but an employee of his . and the most surprising fact of all be that with his new life and that larry have always want . he find himself lust after his old wife and linda hamilton while proof that sometimes money and a great look yet shallow wife do not make up everything in a man life and like an intelligent wife and love and true happiness . just like it a wonderful life show the audience a man life be what he make it and and that every person have an impact on people and mr. destiny show u that material wealth be not the same a spiritual wealth and a lesson teach u over and over again and but never quite so fluffy and forgettable and truly sweet a it be show u in mr. destiny . mr. destiny be never exceedingly hilarious and but it be a sweet and good natured comedy that never take itself too seriously . the problem with all the it a wonderful life retread out there and like the family man and be that they try to be a influential and memorable a it a wonderful life be . but there be only so many time you can single handedly rip off a famous film and and mr. destiny know this and and play right to the fact . it doesn not try to be anything it isn not while rather and it be something it do not try to be and and this be obvious to the audience . .