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...you get the drift.
She's Celine, an heiress so spoiled
and bored she shoots apples off the
heads of servants, or suitors. Her
father is a billionaire tyrant, played by
Ian Holm with a permafrosted soul.
He and his daughter don't seem from
given a last chance by the Divine One-y_
to mate up the odd couple, Robert
and Celine. Delroy Lindo and Holly
Hunter play the angels, who seem
happiest when they can be ruthless
bounty hunters, thus twisting the con--
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of Billy Graham.
Everything's twisted in A Life Less
Ordinary. It comes from the British
team that did Trainspotting
(McGregor, director Danny Boyle,
etc.), with the hurl-it-hard style now
mostly shorn of nauseating plumbing,
but crammed with whimsy.
It tries hard to be American and
road-hip and Tarantino, or like an old
Michael Powell film fantasy rewired in
devotion to Fargo (there's also a streak
of Big Night, due to the presence of
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the same gene pool, or even the same
planet.
The old creep has just fired a clean-
ing man in the office, Robert (Ewan
McGregor), in favor of a robot. You
get the feeling he'd robotize Celine if
he could, if only to save on apples.
Robert comes up to the big office
in a snitty rage, though he's really a
shy bumbler. Celine, amused, shows
him how to be a little macho. And
then they run off, supposedly on a
kidnapping caper for daddy's ransom
money.
Celine keeps showing Robert how
to be macho, which is why, as she
starts falling in love with him — he
has tousle-haired charm and a Brit-boy
accent — it seems rather farfetched.
He's no Cary Grant, or even Pierce
Brosnan.
The movie has a framing device
about two heavenly angels, cherubs of
romance, who keep fouling up and are
Holm, Stanley Tucci and, very funny
with just one speech, Tony Shalhoub).
The movie is a grainy piling of
moments, which really good movies
aren't. Too many moments sweat from
strain, but others work engagingly
(just how that cocktail mixes is up to --
you, almighty consumer).
There is a "madcap" road chase
with Holly Hunter bouncing wild
even more than she does in Raising
Arizona. And a swell country bar scene
where Celine and Robert suddenly
torch-up their romance with a jubilant
karaoke version of Beyond the Sea,
maybe the funniest scene of this sort
since Pee-wee Herman revived Tequila
in Pee wee's Big Adventure.
There are bits (from Maury
Chaykin as a prissy hayseed) sugges-
tive of Jonathan Winters, others that
are vaguely Preston Sturges, and some
that seem tossed in on a beery gamble
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