Synopsis
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.
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Cast
- Ewan McGregorRobert Lewis
- Cameron DiazCeline Naville
- Holly HunterO'Reilly
- Delroy LindoJackson
- Dan HedayaGabriel
- Stanley TucciElliot Zweikel
- Ian McNeiceMayhew
- Tony ShalhoubAl
- Christopher GorhamWalt
- Ian HolmMr. Naville
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
Gloriously excessive, passionate and messy, A Life Less Ordinary is the kind of picture that's becoming more and more of a rarity in the landscape of American movies: a love story with a hard-on. - 75
Rolling Stone
The movie damn near lives up to that promise. Picture the Marx brothers and the Coen boys collaborating on a valentine spiked with mirth and malice. - 63
ReelViews
From start to finish, A Life Less Ordinary feels like a group of sometimes amusing, sometimes clever, and sometimes tedious skits forced to fit together. - 60
The New York Times
Mr. Boyle's brand of heaven-sent love story comes with a strange and whimsical mean streak. Tender thoughts and ha-ha shootings don't automatically mix. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The film expends enormous energy to tell a story that is tedious and contrived. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Here, one begins to suspect that the major impediment is the sensibility of the filmmakers themselves. They don't believe in this stuff, in its unavoidable sentimentality, and that attitude filters down to a perplexed cast. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Boyle isn't the first British or European filmmaker to make his obligatory zesty American road movie (apparently it's a dream for anyone raised on American cinema), but knowing that doesn't make A Life Less Ordinary any less tiring or its numerous pilferings any less obvious or annoying. - 25
San Francisco Examiner
The big trouble with the movie is that it's difficult to care whether these two get together. Ultimately I did care - when I realized that their union would presumably represent a chance that the movie might end soon.
