A Life Less Ordinary
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- For the unrelated book "A Life Less Ordinary", see Baby Halder
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| Directed by | Danny Boyle |
| Produced by | Andrew Macdonald |
| Written by | John Hodge |
| Starring | Ewan McGregor Cameron Diaz Holly Hunter Ian Holm Maury Chaykin Dan Hedaya Ian McNeice Tony Shalhoub Stanley Tucci |
| Music by | David Arnold |
| Cinematography | Brian Tufano |
| Editing by | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 24 October 1997 |
| Running time | 103 mins |
| Country | UK USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,000,000 (estimated) |
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A Life Less Ordinary is a 1997 romantic/black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle, 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 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.
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[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
- "I HEAR A SYMPHONY" - Diana Ross and The Supremes
- "VELVET DIVORCE" - The Sneaker Pimps
- "HUMAN" - Elastica
- "OH" - Underworld
- "PEACE IN THE VALLEY" - Alabama 3/A3 featuring Errol Thompson
- "WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW" - The Shirelles
- "DEADWEIGHT" - Beck
- "DWR BUDR" - Orbital
- "THE BOX" - Orbital
- "FULL THROTTLE" - The Prodigy
- "BEYOND THE SEA Karaoke Version" - Written by Jack Lawrence and Charles Trenet
- "RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN" - Written by Mel Tillis
- "LEAVE" - R.E.M.
- "DON'T LEAVE" - Faithless
- "A LIFE LESS ORDINARY" - Ash
- "KINGDOM OF LIES" - Folk Implosion
- "IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG" - Faithless
- "IT'S WAR" - The Cardigans
- "BEYOND THE SEA" - Bobby Darin
- "ALWAYS ON MY MIND" - Elvis Presley
- "DEEPER RIVER" - Dusted
- "PUT A LID ON IT" - Squirrel Nut Zippers
- "ROUND ARE WAY" - Oasis
- "IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN" - Gladys Knight
- "LOVE IS HERE" - Luscious Jackson
[edit] Titles Around The World
- Argentina: Vidas Sin Reglas (Lives Without Rules)
- Brazil: Por Uma Vida Menos Ordinária (For A Life Less Ordinary)
- Finland: Epätavallista Elämää
- France: Une Vie Moins Ordinaire (A Life Less Ordinary)
- Germany: Lebe Lieber Ungewöhnlich
- Hungary: Az Élet Sója
- Italy: Una Vita Esagerata (An Exaggerated Life)
- Japan: 普通じゃない
- México: Vidas Sin Reglas (Lives Without Rules)
- Portugal: Vidas Diferentes (Different Lives)
- Russia: Жизнь хуже обычной
- Romania: O Viata Mai Putin Obisnuita
- Slovenia: Odstekano Zivljenje
- Spain: Una Història Diferente (A Different Story)
