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Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) Movie Reviews
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Frank Capra meets the Coen Brothers inA Life Less Ordinarya delightfully warped new comedy that seems to blendIt Happened One NightwithRaising Arizona.Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz co-star as the unlikely lovers, Robert and Celine,...read the complete Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
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Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
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....read the complete Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) review at Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
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The New York Times (Janet Maslin)
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....read the complete Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) review at The New York Times (Janet Maslin)
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Dallas Observer (Peter Rainer)
What's missing is romance. Despite the engaging friskiness of its two stars, the film is romantically vapid. Watching it is like trying to warm up to a hologram....read the complete Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) review at Dallas Observer (Peter Rainer)
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Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
The new film by the phenomenally talented Scots-English trio of director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald and screenwriter John Hodge -- they did both "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting" -- is a failure so absolute and witless it deserves some kind...read the complete Life Less Ordinary, A (1997) review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
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