A Life Less Ordinary
Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss’s daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot…
- Director:Danny Boyle
- Genre:Drama | Romance | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
- Runtime:103 minutes
Cast
Ewan McGregor : Robert Lewis
Cameron Diaz : Celine Naville
Holly Hunter : O’Reilly
Delroy Lindo : Jackson
Dan Hedaya : Gabriel
In Heaven (which resembles a modern police headquarters), angels are tasked with ensuring that humans on Earth find love. The “Captain”, Gabriel (Dan Hedaya), is upset at reviewing the file of angel partners O’Reilly (Hunter) and Jackson (Lindo), all of whose recent cases have ended in divorce or misery. Gabriel is being pressed for results, so he introduces a radical new incentive: if their latest case isn’t “cracked” – meaning, if the pair in question do not fall, and stay, in love, O’Reilly and Jackson must stay on Earth forever, not appealing to them. They open their case file, and see what is in store for them…
Celine Naville (Diaz) is the spoiled twenty-something daughter of a wealthy businessman. When one of her suitors, a loathsome dentist named Elliott (Stanley Tucci), proposes marriage to her, she offers to say yes, but only if he agrees to play “William Tell” with an apple on his head. As she takes aim with a pistol, Elliot’s nerves fail and he moves to stop her, spoiling her aim and causing a non-fatal head wound.
Robert Lewis (McGregor) is a janitor employed in the basement of Celine’s father’s company. His dreams for writing a best-selling trash novel are shot down by his coworkers, and he receives a pink slip from his manager, telling him he’s being replaced by a robot. While he is drowning his sorrows at a local bar, his girlfriend, Lily (K.K. Dodds) tells him she is leaving him for an aerobics instructor. Read more
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