Jolie brings a degree of unpredictability to her character which makes her more intriguing than the material or something like that.
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04/26/02
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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.
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Wide
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
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Reviews for Life or Something Like It
A pleasant romantic comedy.
04/26/02
Top CriticA misshapen, generally misguided, unnervingly simplistic romantic comedy with a spiritual element that means to give viewers pause, but seems far more likely to give them giggling fits.
04/26/02
Top CriticA potentially decent little fantasy-comedy, which unfortunately settles for cheap sentiment and oddly out-of-place humor when it could be -- should be -- aiming much higher.
04/26/02
Its disparate elements never add up to approximating real life.
04/26/02
Top CriticTrying to glean life lessons from this movie is about as futile as hunting for an emotionally honest bone in its bloated body.
04/26/02
Top CriticA fluffy date movie that settles for platitudes every time it comes across an interesting idea.
04/26/02
Too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash.
04/26/02
This is an ungainly movie, ill-fitting, with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be.
04/26/02
Top CriticA thoughtful and satisfying look at the ways we choose or refuse to take responsibility for our lives.
04/26/02
You may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie.
04/26/02
Life or Something Like It probably won't become a modern-day classic in the vein of It's A Wonderful Life, but it's pretty wonderful.
04/26/02
Only in a movie like this could live-TV drunkenness become a career-advancing move.
04/26/02
Despite the film's decided thinness, there's still a kernel of something here -- a sweetness and vitality that peeks through.
04/26/02
Slightly above-average, somewhat dawdly and meandering romantic comedy. Angelina Jolie is at her most tolerable.
04/26/02
Jolie's cute and charming love interest Edward Burns is likable and has cool hair, and that's enough to make you root for the good guy (and gal) and gloss over the film's inadequacies.
04/26/02
The relentless upbeatness of Life or Something Like It wrecks the possibility of either real laughter or genuine pathos.
04/26/02
Top CriticSuffers from a decided lack of creative storytelling.
04/26/02
Life wouldn't have worked nearly as well as it did without Jolie, and I'm not sure too many other actresses could have carried this film.
04/26/02
Partly a schmaltzy, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless.
04/26/02
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