How sweet! This picture would be perfect to accompany their Christmas cards. With Nicolas Cage and wife Alice Kim along with son Weston + one blondie, the only Cage missing is young Kal-El.

There isn’t much that’s ordinary about Nicolas Cage. That’s what makes him interesting. He is part of one of Hollywood’s biggest families, which includes his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola; his aunt, actress Talia Shire; and his cousins, director Sofia Coppola, actor Jason Schwartzman, and actor/musician Robert Schwartzman. Talk about a big Christmas cards list! His list of film roles spans from a punk in Valley Girl to a tortured baker in Moonstruck to an alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas to a superhero in Ghost Rider. As if his varied movie roles aren’t enough, he’s been married to Patricia Arquette (who he proposed to on their first date) and Lisa Marie Presley (who he divorced about 100 days later), owned a haunted house, and ate cockroaches to authenticate a part (in Wild at Heart).

Even brilliantly eccentric celebrities sometimes get a hankering for a traditional holiday celebration. In 2000, Cage starred in The Family Man. In this story of an investment broker who takes the path less traveled, Cage’s character says goodbye to his college sweetheart and tosses away the promise of a traditional family life for the risk of his demanding, successful career. After a chance meeting with an angel in the form of Don Cheadle, Cage wakes up on Christmas morning to a picturesque, Christmas card of a life, complete with a wife, two kids, and a house in suburban New Jersey.

Cage’s traditional Christmas didn’t stop there. In 2001, he voiced Jacob Marley in an animated version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which also starred Kate Winslet, Simon Callow, and Michael Gambon. He must have really enjoyed himself on that project, because several years later, he had a “Charles Dickens Christmas” at his home in Bath, England. In 2007, his family, including wife Alice and sons Kal-el and Weston, settled down for a first-time Dickensian celebration.

Sounds like a celebrity Christmas card in the making. A wife, two kids, and a house in suburban England? Complete with figgy pudding, that would be a holiday greeting that anyone would like to receive! I wouldn’t be surprised if he reenacted the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and called on those ghosts haunting his other house to play the parts of the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. If anyone could pull it off, and do it well, it would be Nick Cage!

Did the Cage family continue the tradition in 2008? Only they would know. Cage has starred in over seventy films, and after almost thirty years in the business, shows no sign of slowing his busy workload.