Synopsis
A 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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Cast
- Anne HathawayEmma Morley
- Jim SturgessDexter Mayhew
- Tom MisonCallum O'Neill
- Jodie WhittakerTilly Shaw
- Rafe SpallIan Whitehead
- Patricia ClarksonAlison Mayhew
- Ken StottStephen Mayhew
- Romola GaraiSylvie Cope
- Matt BerryAaron
- Toby RegboSamuel Cope
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Danish director Lone Scherfig skillfully adapts David Nicholls' best-selling romantic novel to the screen. - 67
IndieWire
Anne Hathaway's faux British accent might be the first obvious conceit in One Day, but not its most cumbersome. That distinction belongs to the eponymous structure, a claustrophobic device that follows a pair of best friends over the course of a 22-year period, but only on many versions of July 15th. - 63
Slant Magazine
One Day conveys a real sense of the poignancy of individual lives unfolding over time, but the film's ultimate embrace of conventionality ultimately undercuts the not inconsiderable accomplishments the project had worked so hard to achieve. - 60
Variety
On a moment-by-moment basis, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess make this long-arc love story viable, sometimes even vital. But the structural conceit proves more reductive than expansive, the big picture too overdetermined to really sweep the viewer away. - 50
Village Voice
For an entry in a genre of films that frequently work as guilty pleasures even at their most formulaic, One Day doesn't offer much pleasure. - 50
Observer
It's a sweet, harmless, meandering tale with an engaging gimmick, but a great love story - or a great movie - it's not. - 50
Tampa Bay Times
Some ideas simply work better on book pages, rather than on film where illogic is exposed. - 50
Orlando Sentinel
This episodic romance works in fits and starts, and captures a bittersweet faux British turn by Anne Hathaway, plainly mismatched in being paired with real-life Brit Jim Sturgess.
