One Day2011
One Day (2011)
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Critic Consensus: Despite some fresh narrative twists, One Day lacks the emotion, depth, or insight of its bestselling source material.
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as Emma
as Dexter
as Callum
as Tilly
as Ian
as Alison
as Marie
as Customer
as Steven
as Ingrid
as Tara
as Waiter
as Floor Manager
as Suki
as Rapper
as Mrs. Major
as Cocktail Waitress
as Aaron
as Sylvie
as Mrs. Cope
as Mr. Cope
as Samuel Cope
as Colin
as Jasmine (2001)
as Jasmine (2001)
as Teenager on Eurostar
as Murray Cope
as Jean-Pierre
as Jasmine (2005)
as Nightclub Girl
as Jasmine (2007 and 2011)
as Waitress
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Critic Reviews for One Day
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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.
One 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
Audience Reviews for One Day
A touching story with a beautiful score, impeccable makeup and captivating characters that really grow on us as we catch up with them once in a year for such a long period of time - although it is just a pity that in the end it reuses a typical melodramatic cliché of romances.
Super Reviewer
The story of one significant day in the lives of two friends over many years is told in such quick flashes that anything resembling emotional attachment to its characters dissipates with the fog of these lazy transitions. These two numbskulls meet at their college graduation and proceed to remain friends for a significant number of years. Looking at the same day every day for twenty years the film tries to delve into the neurosis of the two and show that they are meant to be together. Neither of these characters is very likable, interesting, or entertaining, because both of them are selfish, both are juvenile in the way they show their emotions, and both never seem to learn from their various mistakes. Emma (Hathaway) ruins her life, falls for the wrong man and settles, and loses any respect for her former friend. In confluence Dexter (Sturgess) sells out, becomes a drug addict, and loses any self-respect. Some things change over the years, but really it's about long term change over a period of time. These drawn out storylines last years and years and don't entertain, mostly because their sorrows revolve around their own morbid senses of self-worth. Over the years they may grow closer together, but there's no buildup to their inevitable relationship. It's one scene, that only shows how shallow and beaten down Emma is to finally fall for Dexter's shtick. The rest of the movie results in a bunch of jumbled, half-thought out ideas that result in a lackluster ending. There's just no heart to this film, no chemistry between the two leads, and no decent ending to tie it together, just false sentimentalities to make up for a film that steers nowhere. Anyone would agree there's really nothing to love in this love story.
Super Reviewer
While there's certainly innovation here and I generally enjoy romantic films (and I certainly enjoyed this one), I have to admit that there's something lacking in the way it ended. The actors did as best they could with the material but maybe it's just that mushy-cushy feeling and predictability you always get with these films that sometimes just doesn't cut it for me.
Super Reviewer
One Day Quotes
| 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. |
| Alison: | drunken hugs |
| Alison: | Drunken hugs. |
| Emma: | If I can't talk to you then what's the point of you? |
| 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. |