This is Angelina Jolie's movie all the way, and she does not disappoint.
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04/26/02
Life or Something Like It (2002)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:32
Rotten:86
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $14,400,987
Synopsis: Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), an ambitious TV anchorwoman, is adorned in a perfect wardrobe enhanced by her trademark Marilyn Monroe-inspired blonde bouffant hairdo. She is also engaged to a... [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane
Director: Stephen Herek
Reviews for Life or Something Like It
Life may be pre-packaged goodness, but it's served warm by a director comfortably basking in the glow of his preferred genre.
04/26/02
Lanie, who suggests a blow-dried human Q-tip, is so jarring on the eyes, it's difficult to concentrate on the story.
04/26/02
Top CriticOh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
04/26/02
Top CriticLife is a crock -- or something like it.
04/26/02
Top CriticExplain to me why the big studios keep making romantic comedies which are so lacking in romance and comedy.
04/26/02
The disjointed mess flows as naturally as Jolie's hideous yellow 'do.
04/26/02
The whole exercise feels predictable and programmed.
04/26/02
If you've never seen such a 'second chance at life' film, this one may work for you to some degree, especially if you're a connoisseur of/sucker for forced, contrived and predictable material and moments posing as heartfelt and moving ones.
04/26/02
A worthy woman's film and Jolie's best showcase to date.
04/26/02
Jolie's performance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips.
04/26/02
The big question in Life or Something Like It isn't 'Will Lanie live?' or even 'Can Lanie change?' but 'Am I ever going to give a fig?'
04/26/02
It appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making.
04/26/02
Exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as Kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair.
04/26/02
Aside from Jolie and the always-interesting Shalhoub, there's nothing much going on here.
04/26/02
What we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless, vapid and devoid of substance, in a movie that is definitely meaningless, vapid and devoid of substance.
04/26/02
The whole film echoes Jolie's character -- stylish on the surface with no depth or substance.
04/26/02
The quirky potential of Herek's background and Jolie's charismatic persona ought to have been shaped into something more interesting than such pseudo-profound fluff.
04/26/02
A really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness.
04/26/02
You simply don't get a sense that Lanie's learned anything, other than that being too ambitious is a really bad thing.
04/26/02
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