A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Danny Boyle
Written By: John Hodge
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Ian Holm, Maury Chaykin, Tony Shalhoub, Dan Hedaya, Delroy Lindo, Holly Hunter, Cameron Diaz, Timothy Olyphant, Ian McNeice
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Crime, Fantasy
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A Life Less Ordinary belongs to 10 collections
1. Classic CHUD: 100 Movies That Deserve More Love (collaborative: moderated by tinysausage - 5 stars)
2. The AV Club: My Year of Flops (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 3 stars)
3. angels (collaborative: moderated by livelove - 2 stars)
4. British director (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
5. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (public: Coheed - 1 star)
6. The Prodigy (collaborative)
7. Canal+ VOD (collaborative: moderated by msa)
8. 1997: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
9. 90s fantasy (public: kikifas)
10. My ratings (public: tpbradbury)
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| 1 | duandsku | 42 14th |
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This was perhaps pitched as a Tarantino-It Happened One Night, it's most interesting as a concept than a film. And the surrealistic religious elements don't work, though they are more fitted here than the would be in Millions.
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Kavu | 54 27th |
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A huge step down from Trainspotting. I liked Boyle's directing, but the screenplay wasn't that good.
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Vince Leo (Qwipster's Movie Reviews) | 50 19th |
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Watch this turn from an energetic comedy to a thriller to a romance to a musical, but at no time is a tone established that says that anything can happen, and certainly very little is invested in the characters to make us truly interested in their agendas. In short, it's a mess of brain farts and experimentation without a clue what the perceived outcome should be.
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Stain | 80 68th |
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Kind of an attempt to melt down _A Matter of Life and Death_ and pour it into a '90s-romantic-comedy mold. Weird, but all told a good movie
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Shmendrek | 2 33rd |
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Woah, here's another for the "barely remember seeing it" category. I completely forgot about this, and I'm pretty sure I saw it only a year ago. Left a HUGE impression on me, clearly.
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moraesfelipe | 42 18th |
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I don't know, maybe I was just pissed off with something else when I was watching it, but I think this is the worst effort by Danny Boyle.
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| 1 | niksan | 89 97th |
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Essentially a chick-flick, but a bit campy and eccentric.
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| Average Percentile 40.64% from 1005 Ratings |  |