Life Or Something Like It

Starring:Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, James Gammon, Melissa Errico, Stockard Channing, Lisa Thornhill, Gregory Itzin, Max Baker, Andromeda Dunker, Jesse James Rutherford, Veena Sood, Eric Snellman, Theron Zahn, Paul Morgan Stetler, David Dunard, Johnny 'Sugarbear' Willis, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Vince Flueck
Director: Stephen Herek
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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Angelina Jolie proves her box-office versatility in Life or Something Like It, a romantic comedy (Jolie's first) that succeeds on the strength of Jolie's appealing performance. As Seattle TV news reporter Lanie Kerrigan, Jolie craves celebrity (i.e., she's insecure and seeks approval), but her disapproving cameraman (Edward Burns) detects an admirable woman beneath Lanie's bleached-blond coif and pancake makeup. When a homeless street prophet (Tony Shalhoub) predicts that Lanie will soon be dead, she gradually juggles her priorities, connecting with Burns, appearing drunk on camera (a mistake that ultimately works in her favor), and finding new confidence in her professional and romantic potential. It's generic fluff, but director Stephen Herek (Rock Star, Mr. Holland's Opus) approaches the material with his reliably good-natured sincerity, and Jolie's bubbly charm mixes well with Burns's casual sensibility. And while Herek can't compare to George Cukor or Billy Wilder, he knows just how to handle the inevitable loopholes in the prophet's not-so-gloomy premonition. --Jeff Shannon
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A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...

Life Or Something Like It
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Life Or Something Like It
Starring: Angelina Jolie , Edward Burns , Tony Shalhoub , Christian Kane , and James Gammon
Director: Stephen Herek
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Angelina Jolie proves her box-office versatility in Life or Something Like It, a romantic comedy (Jolie's first) that succeeds on the strength of Jolie's appealing performance. As Seattle TV news reporter Lanie Kerrigan, Jolie craves celebrity (i.e., she's insecure and seeks approval), but her disapproving cameraman (Edward Burns) detects an admirable woman beneath Lanie's bleached-blond coif and pancake makeup. When a homeless street prophet (Tony Shalhoub) predicts that Lanie will soon be dead, she gradually juggles her priorities, connecting with Burns, appearing drunk on camera (a mistake that ultimately works in her favor), and finding new confidence in her professional and romantic potential. It's generic fluff, but director Stephen Herek (Rock Star, Mr. Holland's Opus) approaches the material with his reliably good-natured sincerity, and Jolie's bubbly charm mixes well with Burns's casual sensibility. And while Herek can't compare to George Cukor or Billy Wilder, he knows just how to handle the inevitable loopholes in the prophet's not-so-gloomy premonition. --Jeff Shannon

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A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...

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WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE.......2007-05-08

NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY

Huge Fan.......2007-04-11

I am a huge fan of Angelina Jolie's. And if you are too, this is a movie you should not miss. It's great as a date movie or not, charming and cute. And who doesn't love Angelina!! She's reason enough to own the dvd. And my husband will agree to that!

A Very Memorable Movie.......2007-03-03

I was surprised that this movie turned out to be very good. Angelina Jolie gives a very good performance as Lanie a reporter who learns from a street psychic that she has seven days to live. In those seven days she evolves into a better person who really wants to live and be happy. Is it enough to save her from dying? A movie worth watching.

Shockingly Good.......2005-09-02

I rented this movie thinking that it was going to be a typical romantic comedy. But I ended up loving this movie. Angelina Jolie was perfect for the role. The movie was sweet without going way out of hand with the typical trashy sexual jokes that come every 5 minutes. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes romantic comedies or Angelina Jolie.

Would you turn gay for Angelina?.......2005-04-23

I sure would, and thanks to being told that I'm not the only one, I decided to use this as my subject line. I find her one of the most attractive women out there, although I definitely prefer guys!

I found a lot of the time during this movie that I was distracted, and not focusing my full attention on it, yet I still understood what was going on. So this shows you can switch your brain off during this, and it doesn't really make any difference - just remember to switch it back on again. It just failed miserably in holding my attention I don't know whether other reviewers found this.

Angelina Jolie does NOT look good as a blonde. Especially with a blonde wig. Now I don't know if it was wigs she wore in Gone In 60 Seconds & Girl Interrupted, but at least her hair moved in those, it rarely does in this. It just doesn't move at all! Her colouring is just too dark to pull off being blonde, and she so suits being her natural colour.

The story could have been a whole lot more interesting if it had tapped into the religious and philosophical side of finding out you only had one week left to live. The finale could have used some of this, but instead seems rushed, and is never really properly concluded in such a way that would leave you feeling sad/happy.

Yet another film that has left me sitting on the fence along with Ella Enchanted. And what's with the cover? How insanely dull. And doesn't tell you anything about the movie. Except that Angelina Jolie plays somebody blonde.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie smolder in one of the most anticipated, sizzling action films ever made. After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith (Pitt and Jolie) are stuck in a rut the size of the Grand Canyon until the truth comes out! Unbeknownst to each other, they are both coolly lethal, highly paid assassins working for rival organizations. And when they discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in a spicy, explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, nonstop action and high-tech weaponry that gives an all-new meaning to "Till death do us part!"

Life or Something Like It
A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie), interviews a psychic homeless man (Shalhoub) for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life has no meaning, and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...

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Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is the busiest, and the best, air traffic controller on Long Island - until Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) roars into town like a motorcycle-riding cowboy. Fueled by caffeine and machismo, the two men embark upon an uproarious contest of wit and wills that can ultimately only have one winner.

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Perfect Date Movies Vol. 1- Love & Romance (Life or Something Like It / Love is a Many Splendored Thing / One Fine Day / Say Anything)

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Starring: Renée Zellweger , Ewan McGregor , Sarah Paulson , David Hyde Pierce , and Rachel Dratch
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An interesting idea for a story but very uneven results

Life or Something Like It [Region 2]
Starring: Angelina Jolie , Edward Burns , Tony Shalhoub , Christian Kane , and James Gammon
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An interesting idea for a story but very uneven results.......2006-02-06

"Life or Something Like It" is one of those films where the idea is intriguing, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. The central character is Lanie Kerigan (Angelina Jolie), a hot young feature reporter for a Seattle television station who has a chance of her dream job for the network's morning show, "AM USA." Lanie is paired up with the station's best cameraman, Pete (Edward Burns), although these two clearly have a past that makes this a rocky relationship and assures us that they will end up together before too long. One day Lanie is out on the street filming an interview with Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub), a homeless man who is supposedly psychic. During the interview Jack makes three predictions. First, the Seattle Seahawks will win their game 19-13. Second, it will hail the next day. Third, Lanie will die next Thursday. This last one gets her attention.

Of course Lanie is skeptical. But when the first two predictions come true, she starts to become concerned and when Jack offers another prediction that comes about, she really starts to freak. Somewhere in her background Lanie must have studied classical mythology, because she does not really try to thwart her fate, although it takes her a while to accept it. This is for the good, because if she decided that she would stay home in bed all day on Thursday she would end up in a car accident on Wednesday night and linger until the next day. Trying thwart a prophecy only makes things worse; just ask Jocasta and pay attention to how the prophecy in Sophocles' tragedy changes).

The first problem with this 2002 film is that it is a romantic comedy that takes itself too seriously one moment and not seriously enough the next. Feel good movies tend to have scenes where people burst into song, and we have that here. I like the song, but for that character to lead that group in that song at that particular moment is really not a good move (except that the people who wrote the script liked it, so it does work out for the best). People who are actually in the business of television news must be laughing themselves silly at all the stupid bits about their profession in this business; my favorite, but not in a good way, was this idea of showing an interview at 7 in the morning on the east coast live on the west coast.

Ultimately this film gets reduced to a simple platitude and it is at that point that "Life or Something Like It" really betrays its promise. What would have made this film really work is not that it works on a universal level to which we can all relate, but if it drives the point home in terms of Lanie's character in some memorable way. There are a few conventional and unimaginative efforts, but nothing that crystallizes into a transcendent scene that elevates this film to a truly meaningful level. Even if you do not see the ending coming, I doubt that you are going to be surprised that this film wants to have its cake and eat it too.

Jolie's character has trouble shedding her on-camera persona enough to provide true depth to an examination of her life that gets beyond her brave smile, which is different from her on-camera smile. Her romance with Burns is by the numbers and I found myself wishing the film had tried to do more with her relationship with boyfriend Cal Cooper (Christian Kane, an actor who is going to break through in films the way he did on television's "Angel" some day soon), who plays for the Seattle Mariners, because I actually liked his idea of how to try and help her and I thought there was the possibility there for something different. There will be those that really like this film, but even that minority should have no problem in articulating ways in which it could have been so much better.

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