A Life Less Ordinary

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Image:Life less.jpg A Life Less Ordinary is a 1997 film directed by Danny Boyle, and 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 would best be described as a romantic/dark comedy.

It stars Cameron Diaz, Ewan McGregor, Holly Hunter, and Delroy Lindo. Hunter and Lindo play the angels O'Reilly and Jackson, sent to matchmake McGregor (Robert) and Diaz (Celine) - literally a match made in heaven.

Robert is a dreaming janitor, working for rich, spoiled, crazy Celine's father (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 Holm, 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 Diaz's fiance/dentist, and Dan Hedaya plays the angel Gabriel.

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.

The Irish band Ash feature on the soundtrack of the film with a song of the same name.

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