Life or Something Like It
Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), a feature reporter at a Seattle television station, leads the ultimate superficial life, even though she thinks she has it all, like a superstar boyfriend, a gorgeous apartment, and a shot at a big network assignment. Her perfect world starts unraveling after a homeless street seer tells Lanie that she leads a meaningless existence, and will die the following week. When the savant's other predictions come true, Lanie begins to re-examine her life and priorities.
July 1, 1966 in Manhasset, New York, USA
20 April 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
29 January 1968, Woodside, Queens County, New York, USA
23 March 1970, New York City, New York, USA
April 21, 1991 in North Delta, British Columbia, Canada
June 30, 1990 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
13 February 1944, New York City, New York, USA
August 01, 2003
...mostly just dull and forgettable.
June 01, 2002
Comes on like a romantic comedy with metaphysical pretensions, but somehow these opposing aspects manage to cancel each other out, leaving us with laugh-lite comedy and, well, metaphysical pretensions.
April 26, 2002
Lanie, who suggests a blow-dried human Q-tip, is so jarring on the eyes, it's difficult to concentrate on the story.
June 19, 2003
Watching the bleach blonde actress prance around the steep hills of Seattle in skintight pastel skirt suits wobbling atop sky-high stilettos is almost more than one should have to bare.
December 25, 2010
Old fashioned date movie for older teens.
July 20, 2002
Life, though funny and sometimes charming, doesn't give Lanie a believable context in which to stop and smell the roses.
May 02, 2002
Formulaic, delusional and about as accurate a depiction of life in television news (or something like it) as a Pillsbury bake-off.
April 29, 2009
Pseudo-spiritual nonsense...
December 08, 2002
What begins as a somewhat predictable Hollywood romantic comedy, spirals into a tender, sweet love story and opens the door to life's deeper and more meaningful issues.
April 29, 2002
[A] fun romp...
February 08, 2003
...Clearly displays the workmanlike instincts of its creative team, instincts which neither inspire greatness nor fail altogether.
April 30, 2002
Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.
