Une vie moins ordinaire

Titre original : A Life Less Ordinary

1997
14A
1h 43m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,3/10

38 k

MA NOTE

Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor in Une vie moins ordinaire (1997)

Home Video Trailer from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Liretrailer0 min 31 s

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64 photos

Buddy Comedy Dark Comedy Satire Comedy Crime Fantasy Romance

Après avoir été licencié, un mec désespéré kidnappe une fille de son ancien patron. Deux anges sont envoyés sur Terre pour vérifier si l'amour est possible dans ce cas.Après avoir été licencié, un mec désespéré kidnappe une fille de son ancien patron. Deux anges sont envoyés sur Terre pour vérifier si l'amour est possible dans ce cas.Après avoir été licencié, un mec désespéré kidnappe une fille de son ancien patron. Deux anges sont envoyés sur Terre pour vérifier si l'amour est possible dans ce cas.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,3/10

38 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Though most of his scene was cut from the movie, Timothy Olyphant (Hiker) later said he was hugely inspired by watching Holly Hunter work and the creative choices she made. He said his experience on his first few roles up to that point had been relatively uninspiring, but seeing how focused Hunter was made him want to keep working. A Life Less Ordinary is, in fact, only Olyphant's second feature film role, the first having been in The First Wives Club (1996).

Gaffes
When O'Relly is paying off the hiker/car-jacker, she says "Here's $40." She hands him six bills. The top three are 20s (one of which you can see the bottom of the bill if not its digit in the corner), the next is a 10, then a 5 and on the bottom another 10. $85 in total.

Citations
Celine: So you're telling me that successful relationships... are made in heaven? Notfounded on the daily practicality... of two people being prepared... to tolerate the imperfections of one another?
Robert: It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place... that we don't know about.
Celine: So you also reject the idea... that love is merely an emotional adaptation... to a physical necessity?
Robert: Completely.
Celine: Are you serious?
Robert: Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.
Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
Robert: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.
Celine: But you nearly got killed.
Robert: But I didn't... and here we are.
Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?
Robert: None at all.
Celine: And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?
Robert: I know that.
Celine: Then why do you believe it?
Robert: Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer.
Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.
Robert: Are you ready?
Celine: As I'll ever be.
Robert: Then let's go.

Générique farfelu
When the preciding footage ends, it's followed by claymation animation containing the principal characters of the film engaged in further adventures.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Gattaca/The House of Yes/A Life Less Ordinary/FairyTale: A True Story/Sunday (1997)

Bandes originales
I Hear a Symphony
Written by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
Published by Jobete Music Co. Inc., EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
Performed by Diana Ross and The Supremes
Courtesy of Motown Record Company, L.P.
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film and TV Licensing

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5/10

strange, but not necessarily in a good way

By reading the comments here you might get an idea that this is a movie which you "either love or hate". I disagree. Actually I think the truth is quite the opposite - most likely you will be utterly confused by the movie and be very hard pressed to decide whether you liked it or not.

There is a rich girl and a dude with quite a bad luck run going on. The guy kidnaps a girl. There are also some angels whose role isn't clear. A lot of confusing things happen and then the movie ends. With a claymation sequence.

Perhaps if they threw out the whole "angels" angle it would be better. Perhaps the angels are the only thing saving it from being utter dreck. I don't know. That's the most honest comment I can give - I dunno. Much like the angels in question - it seems that even they are not really sure of what are their plans and motivations. But even if I disregard the whole angels and divine intervention stuff, sure fact is that the plot just zigs and zags and has more dead ends then Ozzy Osbourne's hair. Right when you think the movie goes somewhere, the plot throws another tiring curve-ball right up to the end. Which you probably will not like. Or will "get it" and then write essays about it here on the message boards, but let's not go there, I beg you.

For me the biggest complaint is that the movie tries so hard to enter the quite elusive "weird but entertaining" category and constantly fails. It is at times witty, at times trippy, at times baffling but never quite reaches the entertainment level it aims for. I can't say I didn't enjoy it, at times I really felt I'm loving it, but more it went on I couldn't but miss the fact that the creators really didn't have a clue what to do with it or where they wanted it to go. Rewatching further reinforced the fact I had the first time around - the movie's a mess, no matter how much it tried to hide it.

To sum up, this movie is at the same time good and amusing as well as utterly confusing, unpolished and tiresome. So in average it is, well, quite average.

5/10

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Date de sortie
- 24 octobre 1997 (Canada)
Pays d’origine
- United Kingdom
- United States
Langue
- English
Aussi connu sous le nom de
- A Life Less Ordinary
Lieux de tournage
- Layton, Utah, États-Unis
sociétés de production
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Budget
- 12 000 000 $ US (estimation)
Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 4 366 722 $ US
Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 2 007 279 $ US
- 26 oct. 1997
Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 4 366 722 $ US