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04/25/02
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
Mostly about slapping together a bunch of clichés -- outdated clichés at that -- regarding the loneliness of ambitious women.
04/25/02
Angelina is appealing doing the girly girl thing.
04/25/02
To enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by Jolie and Burns, you have to gloss over the no sense ending.
04/24/02
Without Angelina Jolie, this movie wouldn't even be worth renting as a dog-day Tuesday evening video flick..
04/24/02
Seems entirely prefabricated...absurdly contrived and overwrought in a whole variety of bad ways.
04/24/02
The kind of romance that makes a life of solitude seem attractive. The kind of life-affirming story that makes the prospect of death a little less daunting.
04/24/02
Neither Jolie nor Burns bring much to their roles, and their chemistry together is nearly non-existent.
04/23/02
But even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between Jolie and Burns...this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to Screenwriting For Dummies conformity.
04/23/02
Life or Something Like It has its share of high points, but it misses too many opportunities.
04/23/02
Jolie, in a role clearly designed for someone like Meg Ryan, shows us Lanie's vulnerability, inescurity, and her capacity for giddy joy.
04/23/02
Bad movies just don't come any sadder than Life or Something Like It, a shapeless, miserable mess.
04/22/02
Sincere energy gives this soul-searcher something magic to find - if even along the beaten path.
01/27/02
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