My One and Only (2009)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 23
A breezy road movie with characters both glamorous and familiar, My One and Only is a colorful period look at the early life of actor George Hamilton.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 7
A breezy road movie with characters both glamorous and familiar, My One and Only is a colorful period look at the early life of actor George Hamilton.
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Inspired by the childhood experiences of actor George Hamilton, director Richard Loncraine's bittersweet period comedy tells the tale of one mother's attempt to find a new father for her two young boys after catching her husband with another woman. Beautiful but mercurial, Ann Devereaux (Renée Zellweger) has always gotten by on her own charms. Her husband, Dan (Kevin Bacon), is a successful bandleader, but when Ann becomes a witness to his infidelity, she packs their two sons, George (Logan
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Cast
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Renée Zellweger
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Kevin Bacon
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Logan Lerman
George -
Mark Rendall
Robbie -
Chris Noth
Dr. Harlan Williams -
Steven Weber
Wallace -
Nick Stahl
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Eric McCormack
Charlie -
J.C. MacKenzie
Tom -
David Koechner
Bill Massey -
Robin Weigert
Hope -
Molly Quinn
Paula
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (23) | DVD (4)
Loncraine's "My One and Only': Utterly disarming, combining two irresistible genres - the road movie with the romp about a kid's outrageous mother/aunt/grandmother (take your pick)
Top CriticPart road trip, part coming-of-age story, the film ultimately reveals itself as a Hollywood memoir, but it saves any stardust for its last moments.
If you have any curiosity at all about how a fellow like George Hamilton became a fellow like George Hamilton, My One and Only answers the question by looking, fondly, at his primary caregiver.
A grand, colorful coming-of-age story with a candy box color palette and a standout performance by Renée Zellweger. It's a great story and a great crowd-pleaser.
My One and Only is like a tale told by a first-rate raconteur, its twists and turns all the more intriguing because it's all true -- more or less.
This isn't exactly untraveled territory, but director Richard Loncraine makes this potentially familiar story fresh...
The next time someone bemoans 'They just don't make 'em like they used to,' buy them a ticket to My One and Only. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they make them better.
A road-movie with a flat tire, this is a dull journey that follows the teenage George Hamilton as he and his mother set off to find a new life along Route 66. It's a lifeless comedy, long on trivial adventure and short on drama and energy.
Funny, surprising, moving and uplifting, the film soars in a restrained, early 50s kind of way
A sharp and witty script provides the fuel for this captivating road trip in which the potential husbands of Renee Zellweger's Ann Deveraux are the pit stops.
A kind of stinging screwball blend served up raw. And a magnificent tribute, warts and all, to a woman who was no Thelma & Louise, but hardly the coy shrinking violet she was pressured to be either.
feels like a black-and-white rerun on late-night TV.
Even if it isn't as singular -- or as memorable -- as its title might suggest, it's sweet enough and soft enough around the edges to make it a diverting little road trip.
... Zellweger shines in the middle of it all ...
A pleasant trifle of a movie that doesn't let facts interfere with a good fable.
In the midst of blockbusters that involve giant robots and teen wizards, "My One and Only" is an enjoyable film that got lost in the cinematic shuffle of 2009.
You don't have to care anything about George Hamilton in order to enjoy this surprisingly entertaining little movie that will remind you why you once liked Renée Zellweger.
Depressing tale of a mother's love, or at least what she thinks love is.
What could have been a maddening portrait of spoiled self-entitlement is, instead, a plucky tale... Zellweger creates a nice portrait of chin-keeping-up-erness combined with encroaching self-awareness....
Scripter Charlie Peters falters when it comes to the big picture.
Melodramatic, starting and stopping without achieving a flow.
Audience Reviews for My One and Only
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The film is well cast, with an nice ensemble. Renee Zellweger is ok playing Logan's mother. The film kind of reminded me of a Neil Simon kind of film. The dialog is sharp and well written. The big problem with the movie is the pacing, which is completely off. Had they fixed the pacing up, then the film would have been much better.
However, despite the pacing problem, the film is worth checking out, especially for Logan Lerman's performance.
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- Ann Deveraux: I love my sister, George. It's being near her that I hate.
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