If you can get past all the over-bearing 'Live your life for the moment' message, the movie can make your two hours pass by with a fair amount of enjoyment.
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05/17/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
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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05/13/02
Lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life, because she's driven by ambition and Doesn't Know How to Have Fun.
05/09/02
Contains the humor, characterization, poignancy, and intelligence of a bad sitcom.
05/07/02
Although Life or Something Like It is very much in the mold of feel-good movies, the cast and director Stephen Herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles.
05/04/02
One thing's for sure: if you had only a week to live, you wouldn't want to waste 100 minutes on this.
05/02/02
Formulaic, delusional and about as accurate a depiction of life in television news (or something like it) as a Pillsbury bake-off.
05/02/02
Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.
04/30/02
It's nothing like life, and not likable enough to get away with it.
04/29/02
[A] fun romp...
04/29/02
With Life or Something Like it, director Stephen Herek is the envoy for the unreliable emotional demonstrations of Hollywood. But this film maintains a modicum of actual inspiration, nonetheless.
04/29/02
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04/29/02
This was a humorless film about tiresome characters who kept getting more annoying the more serious they became.
04/29/02
... there isn't enough comedy or drama here to satisfy anyone's tastes in particular, and even Renée Zellweger dressed as a tart couldn't have made it any more watchable.
04/29/02
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04/28/02
After taking in this brainless, by-the-book romantic comedy, you'll need a breath mint just to get the taste out of your mouth.
04/28/02
Many of the characters seemed more like sketches of characters rather than real people.
04/27/02
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