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.
7 July 1973, Hong Kong
30 September 1966, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, USA
4 June 1966
6 February 1978, Cape Town, South Africa
11 December 1967, Sydney, Australia
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.
February 08, 2003
...Clearly displays the workmanlike instincts of its creative team, instincts which neither inspire greatness nor fail altogether.
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, 2009
Pseudo-spiritual nonsense...
April 30, 2002
Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.
December 25, 2010
Old fashioned date movie for older teens.
April 29, 2002
[A] fun romp...
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.
August 01, 2003
...mostly just dull and forgettable.
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 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.
July 20, 2002
Life, though funny and sometimes charming, doesn't give Lanie a believable context in which to stop and smell the roses.
