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Summary: Angelina reinvents herself.
Review: Angelina has made a carreer out of playing physically tough women. In "Life or something like it", she plays an emotionally strong women. Angelina plays Lanie Kerrigan, a tv journalist who has a path set out for her life as well as her carreer. Then, a homeless man with E.S.P. tells her that she is going to die in a week and a half. Lanie must figure out what is important in life before it is too late. Is it her job, her boyfriend, or the simpler things in life, like the laughter of children and taking the day off to go to a baseball game. Whatever it is, will Lanie figure it out before its too late? Angelina gives a heart string pulling perofrmance in this romantic comedy co-starring Ed Burns as the camera man with an attitude, and Stockard Channing as a Barbara Wlaters-esque journalist that Lanie aspires to be.This is a wonderful movie. Go see it, but bring your tissue box.
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Summary: A Good Message...
Review: Lanie is a successful career woman who seems to have the perfect life, but when she discovers she will die in a week, she realizes that her life is far from perfect. This film is filled with interesting chracters and a very intriguing situation. It makes you wonder what you would do if you found out you were going to die in a week. Is work really that important? Does it really matter if you eat a burger instead of a salad? Do you need to tell the ones you love just how much they mean to you? These are the type of thoughts that occur to Lanie and would most likely occur to everyone who was in a situation like this. It also makes you realize that a wasted second is too much time to lose. The theme is: one day will be the last day of your life and since you don't know when that day is coming, you need to live everyday as if it's your last day. It may be a trite message but the story is unique and easy to watch. The quick pacing flows well with the story and the characters are well-rounded. If you are in the mood for a somewhat sappy film about living life to the fullest, then I highly recommend.
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Summary: Live a little! especially with Edward Burns.
Review: Great movie--probably more of a chick flick! Was not as much of a comedy as I expected, but I really enjoyed it. It also put Edward Burns on my screen (no pun intended). This movie is definitely worth checking out just for him.
Great story. Very entertaining. Makes you decide you may need to enjoy life, live a little!
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Summary: not bad, but fails to live up to its potential
Review: "Life, or Something Like It" is a romantic comedy with a better-than-average premise. It attempts to address the question "if you suddenly discovered that you might only have a week more to live, how would you spend that remaining time and what changes would you make to your life?" Perhaps because this IS a romantic comedy, the best the film can manage to do within the tight strictures of the format is to raise a few of the more provocative issues surrounding the theme - those dealing with the meaning of life and the vagaries of fate, for example - then drop them so it can address itself to the customary clichés one would expect to find in a film of this genre. One only wonders how a more serious-minded European filmmaker, for instance, might have tackled the same subject matter. Angelina Jolie plays a beautiful, but thoroughly superficial and self-absorbed TV news reporter living a near-perfect life in Seattle. Indeed, when we first meet her, Lanie Kerigan seems to have everything going for her: stunning good looks, a glamorous profession, a handsome major league ballplayer fiancé, and now a major career advancement in the form of a regular spot on a national morning news program. One day, however, her world comes crashing in when she meets up with a homeless man on the street, a self-styled "prophet of God" who tells Lanie that she will die within a week. When all his other predictions begin to come true, Lanie realizes that this man may not be quite the lunatic or charlatan all her friends and acquaintances keep assuring her he is. Given this setup, "Life, or Something Like It" can't help but grab our attention. We wonder how we too would react to such a horrifying scenario if it were to suddenly present itself in our own lives. The problem is that the movie doesn't really do much with the material it has to work with. Nothing Lanie does seems particularly thoughtful or meaningful when she is confronted with potentially imminent death: indulging in some halfhearted attempts to reconcile herself with an estranged sister and father, giving up her health-obsessive diet and exercise regimen, and dumping the fiancé with whom she discovers she has nothing in common. Considering the thematic potential of this material, the film always seems to be lagging several intellectual beats behind where it should be. This is particularly true in the predictable love/hate relationship she shares with Pete, one of her cameraman coworkers. Yet, oddly enough, it is this very pairing of Jolie with Edward Burns that gives the film its moments of greatest charm. Both performers are so likeable in their understated warmth and vulnerability that we can't help liking and rooting for their two endearing characters. Paradoxically, then, the film satisfies us most when it is at its least innovative. The movie is at its worst in an embarrassingly unconvincing scene wherein a boozed-up Lanie, sans makeup and carefully groomed coiffure, leads a contingent of striking workers in a rendition of "Satisfaction" in the middle of a live TV interview. Cloying moments like these merely serve to remind us that we are stranded in movie fantasy land when the film could, with a little more effort, have ascended to a much higher level. (The film, incidentally, endorses a rather reactionary view of women in the workplace, arguing that a woman needs to consider whether achieving success in the corporate world is worth sacrificing a chance at achieving marital and familial happiness - a quandary that never seems to be posed to male characters in movies). And this, alas, is the overall impression that "Life, or Something Like It" ends up generating. Despite the fact that it has moments of quality and charm, the film, ultimately, feels like a case of lost opportunity. One finds oneself leaving this film in a state of frustrating ambivalence: acknowledging that the film works on a level of superficial entertainment but knowing that, with a little more depth and insight, it could have amounted to so much more.
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Summary: A comedy that really makes you contemplate your life
Review: I am a pretty big movie fanatic. The list of my top ten favorite movies which includes movies like "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington", "Inherit the Wind", and "Twelve Angry Men", but really no comedys. Comedyies, I have found, tend to not really say much about life and lack substantial meaning. When is the last time you got a revelation out of a Jim Carrey movie, though even I can quote the entire "dumb and Dumber" movie.
"Life or omething Like it" really is one of those movies though that make the viewer look at their own life and ask the important questions "do I have any regrets?" and "is it worth it?" Jolie plays a oman that I think almost everyone can relate to in some way: she is somewhat insecure, was a bit of a loner as a child, and really strives in her job to be accepted. Almost everyone nowadays is a little bit a slave to their job; it is inevitible because now it is one of the only ways to survive with enough money to eat. But as Jolie's character slowly frees herself from the constraints of her job and her superficial life, she begins to see the really important things in life, like family and relationships in general.
Whether you believe in ESP or not, which I definitly do not, this movie is not so much about the actual phrofesy from the homeless guy, but more about a lady getting her life back. It is a really endeering story with a touching ending.
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Summary: a.j is brill..............
Review: I have not seen this movie but the reviews are really good, so im going to have to, angelina jolie is a really good acteress i've seen girl inturrupted over 10 times it's got a really good story line so i guess this film does to, so go see this movie and your very much enjoy it,im really sure about that.
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Summary: Something like life
Review: I have seen this movie and it is quite good.
Angelina is just deep enough of an actress to pull off the deeper themes of reevaluating your life that run throught the film, but she is also out there enough to pull off slightly ditzi blonde with a plan and make it convincing. Edwards burns is just doing his classic look, "im scruffy, intelligent and cute" look. The chemistry between them, is quite apparant, which makes the romantical part ever so much more believable.
As for the movie itself, it is fairly well written, and some of the other charcters have depth that is there but never verbalized, and doesnt need to be, because thats how life is.
It is a great date movie or girls night out movie depending on your preference. It has it all for a sparkling late spring movie, lots of wit, some deepish themes, and a sprinkle of romance to move things along.
All in all one of the better movies i've seen this year so far. :) Enjoy!
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Summary: Is this a drama or comedy?
Review: The trailer for "Life..." kinda got me puzzled. Angelina Jolie who is noooo Michelle Pfeiffer who did "Up Close And Personal" plays a Seattle News Reporter Personality is given disturbing news about what is going to happen to her in the future. Jolie takes a look at her and makes a few changes If it is going to happen...Hey! she'll do it with a BANG! The look and vibe of the movie looks appealing and despite its odd twist I will definitely check this one out.
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Summary: for angelina jolie fans
Review: The plot: Sappy movie where Angelina Jolie learns she has two weeks to live and goes through a midlife crisis because of it. A plus is you get to see her as a blonde.
Who should buy this: Angelina Jolie fans like me who don't care if the movie is bad just whether she gets nekkid in it or . . . um i mean yeah who am I kidding.
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Summary: Great promise, which isn't fulfilled
Review: Stephen Herek wanted to create a romantic comedy with a twist - ask a serious question: what would you do if you knew you only had a week to live? Unfortunately, the answers the movie gives are so obvious and predictable the 'twist' actually hurts the movie.
Angelina Jolie is great, and so is the supporting cast. Edward Burns does an OK job as the 'I don't like to shower' looking camera man Pete.
The only special feature on this DVD is a director's comentary. Unfortunately, it was put in the 'Sound Options' menu, where it can be easily missed by peope.
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