Life or Something Like It

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Life or Something Like It

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Directed by Stephen Herek
Produced by Kenneth Atchity
Ric Kidney
Teddy Zee
Written by John Scott Shepherd
Dana Stevens
Starring Angelina Jolie
Edward Burns
Stockard Channing
Christian Kane
Tony Shalhoub
Music by David Newman
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) April 26, 2002
Running time 103 min.
Country United States
Language English
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Life or Something Like It is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Herek. The film focuses on television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) and her quest to find meaning in her life. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film's tagline is: "Destiny is what you make of it."

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[edit] Plot

Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), a reporter for a Seattle television station interviews a self-proclaimed prophet, Jack (Tony Shalhoub), to find out if he really can predict football scores. Instead, Prophet Jack not only predicts the football score, and that it would hail the next day, but also that she would die in seven days. When his first two prophecies turn out to be correct, Kerrigan panics and is forced to reevaluate her life.

The remainder of the storyline, which runs for the week of the prophecy, revolves around her attempts at introspection. She seeks consolation in her boyfriend, and in her family, but finds little there. Her lifelong ambition, that of appearing on network television begins to look like a distant dream. In her desperation, she commits professional blunders, but ends up finding support in an unlikely source, her archenemy, the cameraman Pete Scanlon (Edward Burns), who introduces her to a new approach to life..

[edit] KOMO-TV

The majority of the movie was shot on location in Seattle, Washington although portions were filmed in downtown Vancouver. The TV station in the movie, KQMO, was actually real-life Seattle TV station KOMO-TV (the KOMO logo was altered on the set of KOMO 4 News and on several of KOMO's news vehicles, in addition to a few mic flags).

Several KOMO personalities make cameo appearances; among them are longtime anchors Dan Lewis and Margo Myers (the latter moved to KIRO-TV in January 2005), weather anchor and Front Runners host Steve Pool, and weekend weather anchor Theron Zahn. Other KOMO personalities who made brief cameo appearances include People Helper John Sharify, and reporter Michelle Esteban.

Additionally, Vancouver news anchors Pamela Martin and Jill Krop, at the time both employed with BCTV, appeared briefly in scenes shot in the BCTV studios.

[edit] Main cast

Actor Role
Angelina Jolie Lanie Kerrigan
Edward Burns Pete Scanlon
Tony Shalhoub Prophet Jack
Christian Kane Cal Cooper
James Gammon Pat Kerrigan
Melissa Errico Andrea
Stockard Channing Deborah Connors
Gregory Itzin Dennis
Veena Sood Doctor

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