list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Life or Something Like It on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Life_or_Something_Like_It/206200/default.aspx Title: Life or Something Like It
Year: 2002
Director: Stephen Herek
Plot: An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus). Seattle native Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) has spent most of her adult existence trying to live down her gawky, geeky adolescence: She toils for hours at the gym to keep cellulite at bay; she's managed to snag an engagement to a star baseball player (Christian Kane); and through her chipper puff pieces on the nightly news, she's cultivated a loyal following of couch potatoes who pester her for autographs. She's ready to take the next step to national news when her boss suggests she further hone her skills with ace cameraman Pete Scanlon (Edward Burns), who also happens to be an old flame of Lanie's. Her comfortable but shallow existence begins to change the moment she and Pete do a story on Prophet Jack (Tony Shaloub), a sage soothsayer who spouts unusually accurate predictions to passers-by in exchange for spare change. Jack offers up the theory that Lanie will not get her cushy promotion; in fact, he says she'll die within a week. When Jack's other prophecies start coming true, Lanie starts living each day as if it were her last -- much to the dismay of her co-workers and her fiancé. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:06:26 GMTLife or Something Like It2002Stephen HerekAn egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director <a href="/players/P____94115/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Stephen Herek</a> (Mr. Holland's Opus). Seattle native Lanie Kerrigan (<a href="/players/P____36009/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Angelina Jolie</a>) has spent most of her adult existence trying to live down her gawky, geeky adolescence: She toils for hours at the gym to keep cellulite at bay; she's managed to snag an engagement to a star baseball player (Christian Kane); and through her chipper puff pieces on the nightly news, she's cultivated a loyal following of couch potatoes who pester her for autographs. She's ready to take the next step to national news when her boss suggests she further hone her skills with ace cameraman Pete Scanlon (<a href="/players/P_____9698/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Edward Burns</a>), who also happens to be an old flame of Lanie's. Her comfortable but shallow existence begins to change the moment she and Pete do a story on Prophet Jack (Tony Shaloub), a sage soothsayer who spouts unusually accurate predictions to passers-by in exchange for spare change. Jack offers up the theory that Lanie will not get her cushy promotion; in fact, he says she'll die within a week. When Jack's other prophecies start coming true, Lanie starts living each day as if it were her last -- much to the dismay of her co-workers and her fiancé. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide1Slightly Tagged (1-5)512http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t21540hj2kf.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Life_or_Something_Like_It/206200/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/3/9/6234.aspx Post By: MovieBabe
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Post Date: 3/9/2007 8:49:00 PM
Body: Looking over Stephen Herek's filmography, you gotta wonder what the director really wanted to do when he grew up. In Mr. Holland's Opus, the title character finds gushy fulfillment in a teaching job he initially took only to pay the bills, eventually abandoning his goal of composing one piece of work that would make him famous. In Rock Star, Marky Mark has his dream of fronting his favorite band come true only to find that the wild 'n' crazy lifestyle isn't as satisfying as hanging out in a parking lot with Jennifer Aniston. And now, in Life or Something Like It, Angelina Jolie plays Lanie Kerrigan, a news personality who learns that helmet-haired superblondes don't necessarily have more fun. Lanie's perfect life seems about to get even better with the promise of a promotion when she interviews an alleged prophet (Tony Shalhoub), who tells her that not only will she not get the job, but she'll also be dead in a week. As each one of the seer's other predictions comes true, Lanie starts to examine her life, via attempted-but-never-realized conversations with family members and her major-league-baseball boyfriend. She receives useful advice only from Pete (an uncharismatic Edward Burns), the cameraman with whom she has a love/hate relationship. Pete suggests that if Lanie consciously changes her life path--put simply, gives up on being a status-seeking power babe--she might be able to avoid her predicted fate. Though it's billed as a comedy, Life or Something Like It is directed by Herek with an unexpectedly heavy hand--as in the silent close-up of Lanie he offers as the newscaster witnesses one of Prophet Jack's more precise predictions unfolding. And besides keeping the movie from ever reaching its goal of being inspirational, the script's skeletal development also fails its star, preventing the at-first credible Jolie from better exploring the when-ditzes-go-deep angle. Instead, she merely resorts midway through to playing a slightly sunnier version of herself. Herek adds a few twists, presumably to throw the audience off the trail of his cliched what-really-matters MO, but lands the movie more or less where you expected it to go anyway. By then, you'll be hoping that Life's box office will persuade the director to spend more time with his family and less in the workplace.
]]>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:49:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog3/9/2007 8:49:00 PMLooking over Stephen Herek&#39;s filmography, you gotta wonder what the director really wanted to do when he grew up. In Mr. Holland&#39;s Opus, the title character finds gushy fulfillment in a teaching job he initially took only to pay the bills, eventually abandoning his goal of composing one piece of work that would make him famous. In Rock Star, Marky Mark has his dream of fronting his favorite band come true only to find that the wild &#39;n&#39; crazy lifestyle isn&#39;t as satisfying as hanging out in a parking lot with Jennifer Aniston. And now, in Life or Something Like It, Angelina Jolie plays Lanie Kerrigan, a news personality who learns that helmet-haired superblondes don&#39;t necessarily have more fun. Lanie&#39;s perfect life seems about to get even better with the promise of a promotion when she interviews an alleged prophet (Tony Shalhoub), who tells her that not only will she not get the job, but she&#39;ll also be dead in a week. As each one of the seer&#39;s other predictions comes true, Lanie starts to examine her life, via attempted-but-never-realized conversations with family members and her major-league-baseball boyfriend. She receives useful advice only from Pete (an uncharismatic Edward Burns), the cameraman with whom she has a love/hate relationship. Pete suggests that if Lanie consciously changes her life path--put simply, gives up on being a status-seeking power babe--she might be able to avoid her predicted fate. Though it&#39;s billed as a comedy, Life or Something Like It is directed by Herek with an unexpectedly heavy hand--as in the silent close-up of Lanie he offers as the newscaster witnesses one of Prophet Jack&#39;s more precise predictions unfolding. And besides keeping the movie from ever reaching its goal of being inspirational, the script&#39;s skeletal development also fails its star, preventing the at-first credible Jolie from better exploring the when-ditzes-go-deep angle. Instead, she merely resorts midway through to playing a slightly sunnier version of herself. Herek adds a few twists, presumably to throw the audience off the trail of his cliched what-really-matters MO, but lands the movie more or less where you expected it to go anyway. By then, you&#39;ll be hoping that Life&#39;s box office will persuade the director to spend more time with his family and less in the workplace. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/cute/MemberTagFilms.aspxcute
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