Life or Something Like It
Life or Something Like It is a 2002 romantic comedydrama 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 films taglines are Destiny is what you make of it and What if you only haddays to live?.
The remainder of the storyline, which runs for the week of the prophecy, revolves around her attempts at introspection. She seeks consolation in her famous baseball player boyfriend Cal Cooper Christian Kane, 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, with whom she once had casual sex he introduces her to a new approach to life. Pete tells her to live every moment of her life and to do whatever she always wanted to do. Lanie implements Petes advice she moves in with Pete for a day, he introduces her to his son Tommy Jesse James Rutherford who lives with his mother who had separated with Pete, and they spend a whole day together with Tommy that night they sleep together for the second time. The next day Lanie receives an opportunity for a job she always dreamed of in New York she asks Pete to come with her, but he declines and tells her that her appetite for success and fame will never end. Lanie sadly leaves for New York.Pete meets Jack and tells him how wrong he is, as Lanie got the job which Jack foretold she would not get. But Jack explains that he was right as Lanie will never be able to get the job as shell die before it begins he again gives a prophecy of a death of a famous former baseball player in a plane crash. Pete receives the news of the death of the baseball player as foretold by Jack, and tries to call Lanie to warn her. When he cannot reach her, he also flies to New York. Lanie, unconcerned with Jacks prophecy, interviews her idol, famous media personality Deborah Connors Stockard Channing. Lanie realizes how petty the opening questions are and shares a heartfelt moment with Deborah live on air. The interview receives which receives huge television ratings. The network immediately offers her
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