‘Look Both Ways’: It’s two fun romcoms in one as Netflix film shows a pair of paths for heroine

In one of the scenarios depicted in “Look Both Ways,” Natalie (Lili Reinhart) goes to Los Angeles to pursue a career in animation and meets hunky Jake (David Corenswet). (Felicia Graham/Netflix)

We begin our discussion of the low-key and warmhearted charmer “Look Both Ways” by remembering the 2000 romantic fantasy-comedy “The Family Man,” with Nicolas Cage as wealthy Manhattan bachelor Jack Campbell, who wakes up one Christmas morning and finds he’s living in suburban New Jersey with a wife and two kids. It’s a wonderful life in reverse!

When Jack returns to his previous life, that means the life he knew in New Jersey, including his two adorable kids … POOF, all gone. It’s unsettling.