A Life Less Ordinary
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- For the unrelated book "A Life Less Ordinary", see Baby Halder
| A Life Less Ordinary | |
|---|---|
 Movie poster | |
| Directed by | Danny Boyle |
| Written by | Danny Boyle and John Hodge |
| Starring | Cameron Diaz Ewan McGregor Holly Hunter Delroy Lindo |
| Release date(s) | 1997 |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
A Life Less Ordinary is a 1997 film directed by Danny Boyle, and written by Boyle and John Hodge. Following the international success of Trainspotting, Hodge and Boyle sought to use funding from Channel 4 to make a film that would appeal to a U.S. audience, but this follow-up proved something of a mis-fire. It would best be described as a romantic/black comedy.
It stars Cameron Diaz, Ewan McGregor, Holly Hunter, and Delroy Lindo. Unusually, the film was serialised as a full-length comic strip within leading British comic 2000AD, written by then-editor David Bishop and drawn by Steve Yeowell - the first film to receive such treatment in Britain for almost a decade.
[edit] Summary
Two angels, O'Reilly and Jackson (Hunter and Lindo), are sent to make Robert (McGregor) and Celine (Diaz) fall in love - a literal match made in heaven.
Robert is a dreaming janitor, working for rich, spoiled, crazy Celine's father, Naville (Ian Holm). After Robert is fired, replaced with a robot, broken up with, and sent an eviction notice, he finally snaps and, in the course of demanding his job back from Naville, ends up kidnapping Celine, and the movie centers on the friendship and love that grows between them (and the homicide attempts they have to evade).
Stanley Tucci appears as Celine's ex-boyfriend/dentist, and Dan Hedaya plays the angel Gabriel.
[edit] Soundtrack
The Northern Irish band Ash feature on the soundtrack of the film with a song of the same name. Beck also appears with Deadweight, which was also released as a single. The London band Jeopardy Jackson notably took their name from a line in the film during a conversation between the two angels ("Jeopardy, Jackson, always works").
