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 Movie
B |
Video A | Audio A
| Extras C
Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, and
Stockard Channing
director Stephen Herek | Fox Home Entertainment
2002 | Romance - Comedy | PG-13 | 103 minutes
Region 1 | DVD-9
anamorphic
widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio
and full screen
Dolby Digital 5.1
Summary: What could you possibly ask for in
life, when you're a successful, ambitious, and beautiful platinum blonde reporter
who is rapidly moving up in her journalism career, and is engaged to a
young and successful baseball player who is at the top of his game?
That's Lanie's, as played by Angelina Jolie. But when she is
assigned to a camera man (Edward Burns) who she cannot stand and is told
by a homeless street psychic (Tony Shalhoub) who is rarely wrong that she only has a week
left to live, everything about her life seems to have instantaneously lost meaning. Lanie
undergoes a crisis and desperately seeks to find meaning with her life with the
time she supposedly has left.
The performances in this romantic comedy was
uneven, in my opinion. Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns didn't seem
to completely hit it off as opposites of a love interest. Some
performances were good, while others left me unconvinced. Stockard
Channing and Angelina Jolie had a great scene when Lanie interviewed
Stockard as the top news anchor of her network who gave up true love for
success in her hournalism career. Life Or Something Like It
is an interesting story concept, but I found myself less than completely
satisfied with the movie. It might be worth a rental if you're big
fans of Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns.
Special Features: audio commentary by
director Stephen Herek
DVD released on 10/15/2002 | Reviewed 10/27/2002
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
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