Cameron Diaz, Dan Hedaya, Delroy Lindo
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 som...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 20, 2001
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October 18, 2009"a life less ordinary" is danny boyle's primary attempt to hit into american market after his smashing success of countercultural revolt in 1995's junkie cult "transpotting"...it was shot when ewan mcgregor still belonged to the trio of boyle/hodge/mcgregor screen team since "sha...( read more)
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September 25, 2009Was ok, hated the singing bit though! Was a bit of a letdown though after enjoying Trainspotting and Shallow Grave so much. I do think Boyle improved as a director during this film but he soon let himself down in The Beach. Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo stole the show in my opinion!
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March 14, 2008O'Reilly: Our fee for the recovery of your daughter is... one hundred thousand dollars.
Naville: That's a lot of money.
O'Reilly: Five thousand in advance. The rest is cash on delivery - no daughter, no dough.
Jackson: And naturally we'd operate a sliding scale, whereby if we onl...( read more) -
March 6, 2008Danny Boyle is a fantastic director...he's just getting his feet wet here...perhaps recovering after the exhausting Trainspotting
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November 18, 2009A ridiculously well-made and honest romantic comedy. It boils down to a chick flick that a guy can actually enjoy. The acting from McGregor is great and same for Cameron Diaz (surprisingly). The directing was just perfect too because it gave it an edge that I don't think anyone b...( read more)
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October 31, 2009not a really good follow up from his work before this, trainspotting.,
although this movie feels cheap sometimes, but i believe this movie still enjoyable for every boyle's fans, because this movie still provide boyle's wild imagination and his ironic sense of humor.. -
October 31, 2009i still can't believe,a man with such talent as Danny boyle could also got trapped into the typical rom-com genre..
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October 28, 2009dumb - winning cast and excellent director. go figure - something sure as hell went wrong.
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March 30, 2008I absolutely loved this film!.
One of my all time favourite lines(s) was when he got shot and he's bleeding in the back of the car while she is driving...
(McGregor): "Please, don't take me to a hospital. I don't want to die in a hospital..Please"
(Diaz): "I'm not taking you to a hospital"
(McGregor): "What!?... Take me to a hospital!"
It's hilarious!.
And then when he's on the phone trying to make a ransome to get the father to pay for her(Diaz)life.
But he keeps messing up the line... He was suppose to say to her father :"Look here asshole, I got your daughter here and if you don't pay the money I'll cutt her up....ect"
But instead he calls the wrong number the first time says half of it and then realises it's a woman and he's like "OH no, sorry, I don't have your daughter.." and then on the next one he gets the right number and says "Look her daughter!, I got your asshole here..." Mixed the words haha. In the end TRUE LOVE :D hehe!
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August 11, 2006nice...movie has a gr8-----everything nice story,starz,director an every otha thing that a nice movie shud have and i think that these sort of movies are nice fer watching while yu have nothing 2 do!(i am typing all this without knowing what i am typing actually i am typing to make it annoyingly long and long and long...something like the movie...loolol!)yea so like every performance of W\Ewan and Cameron is worth a watch(or is ewan's in this movie---worth a blink!?=S)gak..soz so don't sleep and read on k?i think that the movie shud have had more of...more of...more off...umm actually i told you i dunno wut i am typing..lol so move on and read on...kkk?get me???if you don't!!i am gonna kick yer ass(cuz i don't like it!)lol letz continue eventually the movie is surely woth a watch cameron's perormance waz more notable than inky-blinky Ewan's(looooool!)Peace Out
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