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  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary What's the most important thing in life? Is it love or is it your career? Is it work or is it your family? Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) must ponder these questions after a street savant tells her that she will die in seven days. (20th Century Fox)

Directed By: Stephen Herek

Written By: John Scott Shepherd, Dana Stevens

  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2002
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 43 m

Life or Something Like It

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 23 User Ratings
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Summary What's the most important thing in life? Is it love or is it your career? Is it work or is it your family? Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) must ponder these questions after a street savant tells her that she will die in seven days. (20th Century Fox)

Directed By: Stephen Herek

Written By: John Scott Shepherd, Dana Stevens

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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16% Positive
5 Reviews
28% Mixed
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56% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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16% Positive
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28% Mixed
9 Reviews
56% Negative
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75
The result is a worthy woman's film and Jolie's best showcase to date.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
60
Amiably glossy if naggingly old-fashioned.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
40
Jolie hogs the spotlight as usual, leaving romantic interest Ed Burns struggling to register and only Shaloub -- fetid, dirty, soulful -- with his dignity intact.
By John Patterson FULL REVIEW
38
Partly a schmaltzy, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless.
By Jonathan Foreman FULL REVIEW
25
This is an ungainly movie, ill-fitting, with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be. To quote another ancient proverb, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
20
In the hands of Preston Sturges, this could have been the basis for some snappy mordant comedy, but Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus) sees only fields of corn, winding up with one of those pseudodeep stories (e.g. American Beauty) that Hollywood takes for spiritual.
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Every now and then, though, a movie comes up with a scene of surpassing stupidity, and then builds from that defining moment to a climax of perfect ineptitude. Life or Something Like It is such an achievement.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Production Company New Regency Productions, Davis Entertainment, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Atchity Entertainment International (AEI), Film Cass Entertainment Group, Monarchy Enterprises S.a.r.l.
Release Date Apr 26, 2002
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline What if you only had 7 days to live?
Website https://www.newregency.com/mobile/international-sales/movies/life-or-something-like-it
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