One Day
August. 19,2011 PG-13A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
I must confess I didn't expect much of this film, but it is great. Since the first minutes we are interested in the facts and get envolved with the way the story is told. Everything is good about "One Day": actors performance, direction, plot, music... this is really a hidden pearl among so many boring movies around there. Get it!
Here in the UK we call people like this "Up themselves"and I can't think of a film where that description of the characters is more applicable. One frankly poisonous bloke with his brains in his pants tries for 20 - odd years to seduce a girl he was at university with. That,basically,is what "One Day" is all about. It's not a love story for heaven sake,he is pathologically incapable of feeling so complex an emotion. Except towards himself. She wastes a significant proportion of her life waiting for him to change into a completely different person then,quite inexplicably decides she'll take him on as he is.Maybe she is hearing her biological clock.ticking. Whatever,she dumps her French jazz pianist boyfriend so quickly he hardly has time to learn the melodic minor scale. The device on which "One Day" hangs is so flimsy I lost interest very early on. It might have been more winning if the writer had made the "One Day" the 29th February - at least it would have been over sooner. All you need to know about the characters is that they play the terribly posh game "Are you there,Moriarty",an Oxbridge version of Blind Man's Buff with added violence . Under the guise of which the seriously unpleasant guy smacks his girlfriend very hard in the face with a rolled up newspaper,causing her nose to bleed. She(the lovely Romelai Garai - by far the best performance)still marries him and has his baby. Well,I never said they were clever.
For any Romantic film the aim is to be heartfelt & emotionally charged, but 'One Day' has neither. This film, in fact, is a soulless experience. Good Acting is the only redeeming factor.'One Day' Synopsis: After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.'One Day' has an interesting, ambitious idea, but David Nicholls's Screenplay, which is from his eponymous 2009 novel, is too busy to make you feel for its protagonists. The Writing never lets you settle in or give you the time to connect with the characters emotionally. Its all hurried & rushes in a neck-breaking speed. Lone Scherfig's Direction is strictly okay.Performance-Wise: Anne Hathaway & Jim Sturgess make 'One Day' watchable with their performances. Despite weak Writing, both of the talented actors commit themselves into their parts & perform exceedingly well. Rafe Spall is first-rate.On the whole, 'One Day' doesn't work.
This is a romantic drama film in which Dexter (played by Jim Sturgess) and Emma (played by Anne Hathaway) are shown on 15 July on each year. The problem with only showing the characters on one day per year is that it's incomplete and the change in the characters isn't sufficiently explained. This film is like an inferior remake of When Harry Met Sally - minus the humour and with an unhappy ending.The two aren't suited as a couple or as friends - and the attraction between them isn't believable. Neither of the main two characters are likable, so we can't root for them - or care when she is killed.Anne Hathaway's character, and her many changes in appearance and voice, aren't believable. Her accent is all over the place. In some scenes, her accent changes mid-sentence!