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A Life Less Ordinary

1997

Danny Boyle

Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo ...

5.6

5,548

Romance. Comedy. Fantasy Robert is one of life's losers. He works as a janitor in a giant corporation, but dreams of something...less ordinary. Harp-tongued Celine on the other hand, has never wanted for anything in her short and pampered life as the daughter of Robert's boss, Neville. But like Robert she's bored. In a normal life these two souls would never even meet – but who said this story was normal? Two celestial cops are given the assignment of making ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The film expends enormous energy to tell a story that is tedious and contrived (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"In spite of it's flaws, a handful of the scenes are spot-on in their combination of skewed humour and originality (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It melds the buoyant energy of Danny Boyle's previous direction with a plot that is pure, vintage fluff."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"An egregiously chaotic screwball picaresque (...) the movie achieves the singular feat of being terminally whimsical and terminally raucous at the same time"	NEG
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"[It] is a pleasant enough ride in parts, but has too many half-realized ideas in the script to satisfy at any emotional level, and fails to make a virtue of its mixed British-American cast."	NEU
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"We don't need more Coen brothers, particularly if it costs us Boyle (...) In this case, imitation is the most sincere form of self-destruction."	NEG

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