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A Life Less Ordinary
by Danny_Boyle
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 Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, 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.Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter (Diaz) hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" (Hunter and Lindo) who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father (Holm) in order to save her captor.
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Language: English
Year of production: 1997
Length: 103 mins
Country: United States
Directors:
Danny Boyle
Producers:
Andrew Macdonald
Actors:
Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm, Dan Hedaya, Maury Chaykin, Ian McNeice, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci
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