A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Danny Boyle

Writer:

John Hodge (written by)

Release Date:

24 October 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy

Tagline:

A comedy for anyone who's ever been in danger...of falling in love.

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Robbery | Destiny | Tequila | Heaven | Love

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Ewan McGregor	...	Robert Lewis
Cameron Diaz	...	Celine Naville
Holly Hunter	...	O'Reilly
Delroy Lindo	...	Jackson
Dan Hedaya	...	Gabriel
Ian McNeice	...	Mayhew
Frank Kanig	...	Ted
Mel Winkler	...	Francis 'Frank' Naville
Stanley Tucci	...	Elliot Zweikel
Anne Cullimore Decker	...	Violet Eldred Gesteten
K.K. Dodds	...	Lily
Tony Shalhoub	...	Al
Christopher Gorham	...	Walt
Ian Holm	...	Naville
Maury Chaykin	...	Tod Johnson

Also Known As:

Une vie moins ordinaire (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Vidas sin reglas (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Élet sója, Az (Hungary) [hu]
Epätavallista elämää (Finland) [fi]
Història diferent, Una (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Historia diferente, Una (Spain) [es]
Historia diferente: de amor, secuestros y otro, Una (Spain) [es]
Lebe lieber ungewöhnlich (Germany) [de]
Mia alloiotiki zoi (Greece) [el]
Odstekano zivljenje (Slovenia) [sl]
Olaganüstü bir hayat (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Por uma Vida Menos Ordinária (Brazil) [pt]
Viata mai putin obisnuita, O (Romania) [ro]
Vidas Diferentes (Portugal) [pt]
Vita esagerata, Una (Italy) [it]
Zycie mniej zwyczajne (Poland) [pl]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Rankcolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:R (certificate #35216) | South Korea:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:15 | Mexico:B | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Company:

Channel Four Films

Trivia:

The gas station attendant is whistling the techno song that played over the previous scene (when Robert confronts Neville and kidnaps Celine).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Robert is digging the grave, Jackson is talking to him, sitting on the ground with legs crossed. There is a cut to Jackson's back, and a few seconds later a front view shows him with legs out-stretched.

Quotes:

Gabriel: [picks up his office phone] This is Gabriel. Get me God.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in One Step Beyond: The Making of 'Alien: Resurrection' (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

IT'S WAR

One of the best films ever!

I only just saw this film, and I think it is one of the best films I've ever seen. I'm doing a study on all my favourite actors, and I'm on Ewan McGregor. When I watched it for the first time I thought it was brilliant. Then I started to think if it was a film worth seeing again. I was bored on that day so I decided to watch it. I still thought it was great so I watched it again the next day. I've seen it three times now and I love it! If you're in to action, romance and comedy and you wish you could see a film with all three, you should really watch this film. And the good thing is there are only two kisses. There is a great cast and it has a great storyline. Cameron Diaz does a very good job as well as Ewan McGregor and all the other cast. A brief description would be: There are two angels (Hunter and Lindo) that have to go to Earth and make people fall in love. Robert (McGregor) is a person who loses everything, including his job, so he goes to his boss and asks for it back. His boss' daughter (Diaz) is there and so he kidnaps her and they keep falling apart, as these are the two people that have to fall in love.