One Day (2011)/Movie Review

Release Date:  19 August 2011 (USA) Runtime: 108 min

Genres: Drama | Romance

Taglines: Twenty years. Two people.

Filming Locations: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Director:  Lone Scherfig

Writers:  David Nicholls (screenplay), David Nicholls (book)

Box Office

Budget:  $15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $5,079,566 (USA) (21 August 2011) (1721 Screens)

Gross:  $5,079,566 (USA) (21 August 2011)

Production Co:  Color Force, Film Four, Random House Films

CASTS:

Anne Hathaway , Jim Sturgess , Tom Mison , Jodie Whittaker , Tim Key ,Rafe Spall , Joséphine de La Baume , Patricia Clarkson , Ken Stott , Heida Reed , Amanda Fairbank-Hynes , Gil Alma , David Ajala , Georgia King , Ukweli Roach

STORYLINE

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.

REVIEW

One day is not an epic romantic movie

Let's be clear. One day is not an Epic Romance. If that is what you are looking for. Go see "They way were were", "Same time in September", "Love story", maybe even "Little Romance" with Diane Lane. One more, "Notting Hill".

If you like watching Anne Hathaway and you are a fan of her like some of you were of Julia Robert then go see it. Actually Anne lips remind me of a younger Julia Robert.

The story well, I don't know, I didn't connect with them as I enjoyed "Notting Hill" for example. Some people claim Anne's British accent wasn't good. Well, it would have not matter. It is the story that suppose to be important here. I didn't read the book. Perhaps the book is so much better. I might get more details. You do the accent in your mind and it just might be perfect when you are reading, right? When it comes to the movie, well, it did not work for me.

When Emma spend the first night with Dexter she says that she doesn't know how to act in these situations. What? Any freshman from any college would have done more than just say I don't know what to do.

She is a high maintenance girl. He is a lover, manipulative, womanizer, cocky boy. Most women in general would fall for this guy and not the nice guy who she meets later in the movie. Well, the filmmaker make him that way. These scene were not great. No chemistry. Perhaps they were on purpose so you don't like this guy. On the other hand the scenes with Dexter were sometimes funny. More compatible and confrontational. They try to say what they felt.

Dexter would call her 5am in the morning, all drunk, drugged and almost out of life. She seems to be the greatest friend ever in the world to answer the phone and willing to talk to him to open his eyes. Another woman would just runaway the other way. Unless she is into drugs too and all that fast lane life.

The movie has its moments but it is not consistent. Very few laughs. This is not even close to "Notting Hill" which I was expecting a step higher. A new look. A new fresh look. Maybe it needs Sorkin to spice up the dialog an scenes.