Rate this Movie Help Icon

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

39 ^%

Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 33

Fresh: 13

Rotten:20

Average Rating: 5.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Petulant, rich honeypie Celine and scruffily adorable janitor Robert find themselves on the road to romance after he kidnaps her to avenge his firing by her callous father. But what they don't realize is that their love is celestially... [More]

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo

Director: Danny Boyle

[See More Credits]

Get This Movie

Buy DVD

Release:

Aug 3, 1999

[DVD Details]

Reviews for A Life Less Ordinary

1 - 20 (sorted by date)

Text View | 1 2 3 >> >|

Any movie featuring Holly Hunter as a blood-spattered angel, grinning homicidally as she clings to the hood of a speeding car, is just about impossible to dislike.

Full Review

Comment

08/13/07

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

06/24/06

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

04/09/05

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Part fantasy-adventure, part musical, part nutty romance and part boy-girl crime spree.

Full Review

Comment

07/01/04

Judith Egerton

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Impressive ambitions that fail at every turn. Ewan's really quite uncharacteristically dreadful.

Comment

05/19/04

Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

04/14/04

Dragan Antulov

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Really clever fantasy romance. Great style and great humor.

Comment

08/11/03

Fred Topel

About.com

Interesting storyline, great performances, and much better than the average romantic comedy.

Comment

02/20/03

Rebecca Murray

About.com

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

11/07/02

James Rocchi

Netflix

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

10/15/02

Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

09/10/02

Kevin N. Laforest

Montreal Film Journal

Life may be messy, but it's usually entertaining.

Full Review

Comment

07/02/02

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

06/05/02

Boxoffice Magazine

Top Critic

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

04/12/02

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

A madcap comedy about soulmates.

Full Review

Comment

02/28/02

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

01/22/02

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

05/11/01

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

04/17/01

Neil Smith

BBC

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

02/27/01

James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review

Comment

02/14/01

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

1 - 20 (sorted by date)

Text View | 1 2 3 >> >|

all

Latest News for A Life Less Ordinary

August 24, 2005: Danny Boyle's "Sun" Begins to Shine
Thanks to ComingSoon.net for sharing a press release from Fox Searchlight regarding Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" -- and the fact that it began shooting yesterday. More...

July 05, 2005: In Other News...Roman Polanski, Ewan McGregor, and An Ally for Brooke Shields
Controversial director Roman Polanski will make an appearance in court this month -- not to continue his infamously interrupted 1977 statutory rape case, but to testify in... More...

See More Topics...