In the time before she made her first jaw-dropping splash in 1994's The Mask and her make-you-famous crusty-haired role in 1998's There's Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz made this crazy and certainly extraordinary fantasy dark-comic romance with the director, producer, screenwriter and star of Trainspotting (that's Danny Boyle, Andrew MacDonald, John Hodge and Ewan McGregor, respectively).
The premise is thus: Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo are O'Reilly and Jackson, two angels charged with making the unlikely pair of spoiled rich Celine (Diaz) and poor Robert (McGregor), the janitor at her father's (Ian Holm) company. The time-honored movie tradition of putting two attractive strangers into life-threatening jeopardy to force them to form a bond is their plan, which is aided by the fact that Robert's desperation after being fired, dumped and evicted leads him to kidnap Celine for ransom. When the two go on the lam with their plan to split that ransom, the angels get themselves hired on as bounty hunters to continually put them in the kind of danger that will force those bandits together for good. Or at least long enough to make God happy.
It's twisted and far out, and you'd expect no less from the Trainspotting guys. Diaz and McGregor get hot and crazy with each other, and you really ought to check it out.
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