An ambitious TV anchorwoman, Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), decides to change her destiny when a homeless man tells her she'll die within a week. Lanie is perfect: the famous host of a popular TV show, engaged to Seattle Mariners star Cal (Christian Kane), and adorned in a perfect wardrobe enhanced by her trademark Marilyn .. Read more
| Starring | Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Christian Kane, Tony Shalhoub |
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| Director | Stephen Herek |
| Genres | Drama |
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An ambitious TV anchorwoman, Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), decides to change her destiny when a homeless man tells her she'll die within a week. Lanie is perfect: the famous host of a popular TV show, engaged to Seattle Mariners star Cal (Christian Kane), and adorned in a perfect wardrobe enhanced by her trademark Marilyn Monroe-inspired blonde buffont. To top it all off, her boss recommends her for her dream job, a network position in New York City. In order to increase her chances, he sends her to do field work with the renowned, but difficult, cameraman Pete (Edward Burns). On an assignment, Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub), tells Lanie three predictions: that the Seattle Seahawks will beat the Denver Broncos 19-13, that it will hail the following day, and that she'll be dead by next Thursday. When the first two predictions come true, Lanie reevaluates her life and realizes she's missing out on the smaller things because of her ambition. Jolie is sexy, adorable, and whimsical in her first comedic role. The sizzling banter between Burns and Jolie recalls Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in HIS GIRL FRIDAY. LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT is a lovely departure for director Steven Herek (ROCK STAR, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE).
| Starring | Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Christian Kane, Tony Shalhoub, Stockard Channing, James Gammon, Lisa Thornhill, Melissa Errico, Max Baker, Gregory Itzin |
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| Director | Stephen Herek |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 28 Jul 2003 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
This is not good, absolutely nothing like it, in fact. Finally washing up on these shores almost a year after its US release, this would-be romantic comedy serves as further evidence of Angelina Jolie's post-Oscar career slide. Here she plays Lanie Kerrigan, a has-it-all Seattle TV reporter (great job, great boyfriend, great big hair) who is informed by a tramp known as Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub) that she has a week to live. Cue much re-evaluating of life goals and cod-philosophical musings about living every day as if it were your last. For Lanie, that includes falling into bed with her hitherto loathed cameraman (Edward Burns) — no bad thing if the leads generated any chemistry at all. Sadly, Jolie gives Lanie such a brittle, vain and shallow edge that it's impossible to care.
Deeply silly romantic comedy, a genre for which its stars have little talent, but no actor or director could have made this particular script sound good.
Not your typical girlie romantic comedy. There were some quite sad bits with family relationships not being totally rosey, and the knowledge that she was going to die in a weeks time constantly hanging over her head. Overall a very watchable tale with good chemistry from the leading cast members.
An ambitious TV anchorwoman, Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) decides to change her destiny when a homeless man tells her she will die within a week.
Though Jolie is appealing, Life or Something Like It is too contrived and predictable to convincingly convey its message of stopping to smell the roses. there is enough originality in this film to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens. Jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters, especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging.
However, it is just a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial, and it appears as if even the filmmakers did not know what kind of movie they were making. I wanted a great movie or something like that (and didn't quite get it). But if you're looking for a movie to watch on a rainy day when you want to skip work and stay home in bed with someone you love, it's not bad. Besides, Jolie is very attractive still, with her pouting lips and huge bust . . . despite her awful yellow hairdo.