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Life or Something Like It (2002)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 86

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.

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25

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.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
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An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus). Seattle native Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) has spent most of her adult existence trying to live down her gawky, geeky adolescence: She toils for hours at the gym to keep cellulite at bay; she's managed to snag an engagement to a star baseball player (Christian Kane); and through her chipper

PG-13,

Comedy, Romance

John Scott Shepherd, Dana Stevens

Oct 15, 2002

$14.4M

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Life, though funny and sometimes charming, doesn't give Lanie a believable context in which to stop and smell the roses.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
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Formulaic, delusional and about as accurate a depiction of life in television news (or something like it) as a Pillsbury bake-off.

May 2, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.

April 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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[A] fun romp...

April 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Lanie, who suggests a blow-dried human Q-tip, is so jarring on the eyes, it's difficult to concentrate on the story.

April 26, 2002
Washington Post
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Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.

April 26, 2002
Washington Post
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Old fashioned date movie for older teens.

December 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

...mostly just dull and forgettable.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

...Clearly displays the workmanlike instincts of its creative team, instincts which neither inspire greatness nor fail altogether.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
Film Quips Online

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.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
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Audience Reviews for Life or Something Like It

Not that bad of a film and you really can't predict the ending at all.
June 23, 2011
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Angelina is told she's going to die by a tramp and so sets about learning what's "important" in life by shagging a flat, characterless bloke who uses his young estranged son to get in her pants, and making Stockard Channing cry on national TV. I feel positively enlightened. The only appeal to this tackily directed piffle is Ms. Jolies easiness on the eye. Except in this she looks like a heroin addict with Margaret Thatcher's hair do.
March 12, 2007
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