A Life Less Ordinary . Tucson Weekly . 11-10-97

A Life Less Ordinary

DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle

REVIEWED: 11-10-97

The third film from the team that brought us Trainspotting and Shallow Grave has the same startling sense of composition and color as these previous efforts, but none of the wit. Ewan McGregor plays a poor janitor who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl (Cameron Diaz) due to the influence of some bizarre angel-creature-things. The film lurches from fantasy to romance to road movie without rhyme or reason; even worse, the Boy and Girl don't even seem to like each other, much less light up each other's lives. If you crossed the 1932 Hollywood romance It Happened One Night with Touched by an Angel and stirred in a little bit of Tommy and then doubled your dose of Prozac, then you'd be watching A Life Less Ordinary. The question is, why would anyone want to do this?

--Richter

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