Life or Something Like It
Life or Something Like It | |
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20th Century Fox | |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | United States Poland |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[1] |
Box office | $16.9 million |
Life or Something Like It is a 2002 American
Plot
Lanie Kerrigan, a successful reporter for a Seattle television station, interviews a self-proclaimed prophet, Jack, to find out if he really can predict football scores. Instead, Prophet Jack not only predicts the football score, and that it will hail the next day, but also that Lanie will die in seven days, on the following Thursday. When his first two prophecies come true, Lanie panics and again meets with Jack to ask for another prophecy to test him again. Jack tells her that there will be a relatively significant earthquake in San Francisco at 9:06 am, which also happens. Now Lanie is convinced that she is going to die and is forced to reevaluate her life.
Lanie tries to find consolation in her famous
Pete meets Jack and tells him how wrong he is, as Lanie got the job which Jack foretold she would not get. However, Jack explains that he was right, as Lanie will never be able to get the job because she'll die before it begins. He also gives a prophecy of the death of a famous former baseball player in a plane crash. When Pete receives the news of the death of the baseball player, as foretold by Jack, he tries to call Lanie to warn her. He can't reach her, so he flies to New York.
Lanie - unconcerned with Jack's prophecy - interviews her idol, famous media personality Deborah Connors. Lanie realizes how petty the opening questions are and shares a heartfelt moment with Deborah live on air. The interview receives huge
As she leaves the studio, a police officer gets into a conflict with a man, who shoots a bullet into the air. Pete tries to warn Lanie from across the street, but she is shot in the crossfire. Lanie dies in the operating theatre but is revived. When she wakes up, Pete tells her that he has loved her since the first time he saw her, and Lanie tells him that she loves him too. Later, Pete, Lanie, and Tommy watch Cal's baseball game, while Lanie (in a voiceover) says that one part of her has died — the part that didn't know how to live a life.
Cast
- Angelina Jolie as Lanie Kerrigan
- Amy Esterle as 15-years-old Lanie Kerrigan (uncredited)
- Marika Anuik as 10-years-old Lanie Kerrigan
- Ashlyn Morgan Williams as 5-years-old Lanie Kerrigan
- Edward Burns as Pete Scanlon
- Tony Shalhoub as Prophet Jack
- Christian Kane as Cal Cooper
- James Gammon as Pat Kerrigan
- Melissa Errico as Andrea
- Stockard Channing as Deborah Connors
- Lisa Thornhill as Gwen
- Kasey Stevens as 5-years-old Gwen
- Gregory Itzin as Dennis
- Veena Sood as Doctor
- Jesse James Rutherfordas Tommy
Production
The majority of the movie was shot on location in Seattle, Washington, although portions were also filmed in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] The TV station in the movie, KQMO, was actually real-life Seattle TV station KOMO-TV (the KOMO logo was altered on the set of KOMO 4 News and on several of KOMO's news vehicles, in addition to a few mic flags).[2][3]
Several KOMO personalities make cameo appearances; among them are longtime anchors Dan Lewis and Margo Myers (the latter moved to KIRO-TV in January 2005), weather anchor and Front Runners host Steve Pool, and weekend weather anchor Theron Zahn.[4] Other KOMO personalities who made brief cameo appearances include People Helper John Sharify and reporter Michelle Esteban.[4]
Additionally, Vancouver news anchors
Reception
The film received generally unfavorable reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Life or Something Like It has an overall rating of 27% based on 121 reviews, with an average score of 4.5 out of 10.[5] The site's critics consensus reads: "Though Jolie is appealing, Life or Something Like It is too contrived and predictable to convincingly convey its message of stopping to smell the roses."[5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 31 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[7]
Jolie's performance in the film earned her a
Box office
The film was a
References
- ^ a b "Life Or Something Like It (2002)". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ a b "Life or Something Like It : Production Notes". www.cinema.com. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ Daniels, Chris (March 12, 2023). "Oscar-less in Seattle: What happened to the city's film business?". Seattle Refined. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Life or Something Like It". TV Guide. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ a b "Life or Something Like It". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- ^ "Home". CinemaScore. Retrieved October 3, 2022.