One Day (2011)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 89
Despite some fresh narrative twists, One Day lacks the emotion, depth, or insight of its bestselling source material.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 27
Despite some fresh narrative twists, One Day lacks the emotion, depth, or insight of its bestselling source material.
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Movie Info
After one day together - July 15th, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex
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Cast
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Anne Hathaway
Emma, Emma Morley -
Jim Sturgess
Dexter, Dexter Mayhew -
Tom Mison
Callum -
Jodie Whittaker
Tilly -
Tim Key
Customer -
Rafe Spall
Ian -
Josephine de la Baume
Marie -
Patricia Clarkson
Alison -
Ken Stott
Steven -
Heida Reed
Ingrid -
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Gil Alma
Waiter -
David Ajala
Floor Manager -
Georgia King
Suki -
Ukweli Roach
Rapper -
Lorna Gayle
Mrs. Major -
Clara Paget
Cocktail Waitress -
Matt Berry
Aaron -
Romola Garai
Sylvie -
Diana Kent
Mrs. Cope -
James Laurenson
Mr. Cope -
Matthew Beard
Murray Cope -
Toby Regbo
Samuel Cope -
Tom Arnold
Colin -
Eden Mengelgrein
Jasmine (2001) -
Kayla Mengelgrein
Jasmine, Jasmine (2001) -
Sienna Poppy-Rodgers
Teenager on Eurostar -
Sebastien Dupuis
Jean-Pierre -
Maisie Fishbourne
Jasmine (2005) -
Phoebe Fox
Nightclub Girl -
Emilia Jones
Jasmine (2007 and 2011) -
Joanna Ampil
Waitress
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All Critics (140) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (89)
The film might make the book look less astute and interesting than it is, but it still has an undeniable emotional wallop by its close.
Top CriticOne Day is just a gimmicky "new" way of doing an old-fashioned love story. But we'll hear much more of Sturgess, Hathaway, and Lone Scherfig.
It's what a Nicholas Sparks movie would be if it were aimed at grown women rather than teenage girls.
The result is a rom-com with ambition, keen to actually develop the characters and to mix a few tears with the laughs. Well, the effort is admirable, the movie not so much.
Miscasting aside, there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going -- chances are even just by reading this review -- right from the start.
Director Lone Scherfig, working from Nicholls's screenplay, takes a big step back here from An Education, her last film
For everyone who's grown tired of the summer onslaught of superheroes, save-the-world plots and explosions, Hollywood finally offers some decent counter-programming in the form of the brainy romance One Day.
Ends better than it begins -- or middles.
I couldn't help but feel the film was lent shades of colour by the book; colour that simply doesn't exist on the screen. I projected 435 pages of joy onto a film that probably didn't deserve it.
An average romantic dramedy, 'One Day' tips its hand so early in the game that you won't be a bit surprised by anything that ensues.
...you can't help feeling this dreary tale could have done with a bit of fancy editing or narrative reconstruction.
The most entertaining and engrossing romantic film to hit theaters in ages...
The leads work well together but are held back by cheap sentimentalism when we should be on a journey with the characters.
Such a simple and small premise would and should yield a simple and small movie -- something not so heavy and epic, but more lovely and amazing.
Sherfig's visual knack is better than she realizes; she should stop dressing it up within an inch of its life.
Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education) deliberately veers away from comedy to deliver a surprisingly earthy, soulful romance.
It's a profoundly moving book. Still, the movie is strangely remote, and straining for tears.
A frothy cappuccino of a film with lots of tears, quivering lips and cathartic embraces and little substance.
It doesn't quite deliver on its promise, but this remains a witty, touching and largely enjoyable adaptation.
What should've been an epic romance, a challenger to The Notebook, becomes a melancholy, disconnected drama, despite the talent on display.
The most desperate, cloying weepie seen in many a long time.
The story is told in a very episodic manner, but Lone Scherfig crafts it well and the film is well edited to keep it feeling as one. It feels exciting and unexpected, even though you know really it never is.
There's not really a chance to go very deep here, but the two leads are so strong that they make us believe in them anyway.
Despite the patchiness and the heavily signposted and melodramatic plot points, One Day concludes magnificently.
It doesn't really work. I still cried.
You are hereby advised to ignore the bad reviews and check out this fairly stunning meditation on life, love, and friendship.
Audience Reviews for One Day
Super Reviewer
But apart from it being a bit bleak and me disliking Dexter Mayhew as a character its an okay Romantic drama with Hathaway even bringing some light comedy to it!
For the faults of the movie, where it may have been directed better and more emotion put into the movie as there was potential for it to be tragic, cryfest romantic drama but it failed to capture that emotion and pass it across to the audience, that all said i think Hathaway should get plus points for her acting, she was funny, and gorgeous as ever and did a remarkably believable and good english accent that so many other american actors fail to accomplish!
It is my type of Romantic movie because its not all lovey dovey with the two main characters hopelessly in love and nothing bad happens and they live happily ever after, which is just unrealistic this movie is more honest and although i didnt think Mayhew deserved Emma its still a sweet enough romantic drama not the best but certainly not the worst i would say its worth a watch even if it is only the once!
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- Emma Morley: A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga.Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.
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- Alison: Drunken hugs.
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- Emma: If I can't talk to you then what's the point of you?
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- Emma Morley: Whatever happens tomorrow, We've had today. And if we should bump into each other sometime in the future, well that's fine too, we'll be friends.
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- Mr. Cope: One day.
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- Emma: A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga.Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.
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- Zwei an einem Tag (DE)
- Un jour (FR)
