ONE DAY (2011 FILM)
ONE DAY SUMMARY REVIEW
ONE
DAY, DIRECTED BY LONE SCHERFIG, IS A STORY ABOUT A BOY, DEXTER, AND A GIRL, EMMA, WHO MEET EVERY YEAR ON JULY 15TH, EITHER INTENTIONALLY OR ACCIDENTALLY, OVER THE COURSE OF 20 YEARS. ONE DAY IS BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY DAVID NICHOLLS AND STARS ANNE HATHAWAY AND JIM STURGESS IN THE LEAD ROLE.
DEXTE
R, A CASANOVA, IS A CHARMING YOUNG BOY WHILE EMMA IS A WITTY, HARDWORKING GIRL.THEY MET DURING THEIR COLLEGE GRADUATION ON JULY 15TH, 1988 AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.
ONLY TO PART THEIR WAYS THE NEXT DAY. THEY SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER, TALKING, NOT KNOWING IF THEY WILL EVER MEET AGAIN. BUT THEY DO MEET ON THE SAME DAY. DEXTER GOES ON TO BECOME A TELEVISION PRODUCER WHILE EMMA WORKS AS A WAITRESS IN A TEX-MEX RESTAURANT IN LONDON. THEY MEET OTHER PEOPLE, FALL IN LOVE, SUFFER REJECTION, FAILURE, SADNESS, BUT NEVER LEAVE EACH OTHER.
BY 2001, DEXTER IS A DEVOTED FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER JASMINE, UNAWARE SYLVIE IS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH CALUM, AND EMMA'S BOOK IS PUBLISHED. TWO YEARS PASS AND DEXTER, DIVORCED, VISITS EMMA, NOW A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR LIVING IN PARIS. HOPEFUL AFTER A PREVIOUS DRUNKEN TRYST WITH EMMA FOLLOWING HIS DIVORCE, DEXTER LEARNS SHE HAS A NEW FRENCH BOYFRIEND, AND DEPARTS.
DEXTE
R BECOMES FAMOUS QUICKLY BUT GRADUALLY FADES INTO OBLIVION, WHILE EMMA GRADUALLY REACHES TO HER SUCCESS OF BECOMING A WRITER. THEY MAY BE MILES APART FROM EACH OTHER, BUT LIFE ALWAYS BRINGS THEM TOGETHER ON THAT ONE DAY. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT THAT ONE DAY IS THEY MAY CHANGE AS INDIVIDUALS, WITH ALL THE FAILURES, SUCCESS, HEARTBREAKS, BUT THE BOND THEY HAD WITH EACH OTHER ONLY BECAME STRONGER. STAYING APART FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR MADE THEM REALIZE THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH EACH OTHER THAN WITH PEOPLE AROUND THEM.
STILL
UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR IS EACH OTHER, DEXTER GOES ON TO MARRY ANOTHER GIRL SYLIE WITH WHOM HE HAS A DAUGHTER WHILE EMMA GOES ON TO HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER MEN. WILL THEY EVER BE TOGETHER, MORE THAN BEING FRIENDS? FIND OUT TODAY BY WATCHING ONE DAY, ON NETFLIX.
"I CLEARLY DIDN'T COMMUNICATE TO YOU WHAT I NEEDED TO TODAY. "
THE
HATHAWAY, AS EMMA, HAS DONE A GREAT JOB IN BRINGING EMMA TO LIFE, WITH HER YORKSHIRE ACCENT AND NERDY GLASSES. JIM STURGESS, AS DEXTER, HAS GIVEN A VERSATILE PERFORMANCE AND LOOKS CHARMING, PERFECTLY PORTRAYING DEXTER’S EMOTIONS THROUGH TWENTY LONG YEARS. THE OTHER SUPPORTING ACTORS ARE PATRICIA CLARKSON, KEN STOTT, AND ROMOLA GARAI. THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN ANNE AND JIM LOOKS ADORABLE AND REFRESHING.
ANNE
FILM FOLLOWS DEXTER MAYHEW AND EMMA MORLEY ON THE SAME DAY—15 JULY, ST. SWITHIN'S DAY—OVER 20 YEARS. ON 15 JULY 1988, AFTER THEIR GRADUATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, DEXTER AND EMMA SPEND A PLATONIC NIGHT TOGETHER AND AGREE TO “JUST BE FRIENDS”.
YEAR LATER, DEXTER HELPS EMMA MOVE TO LONDON TO BECOME A WRITER. FINDING LITTLE SUCCESS BY 1990, SHE ENDS UP A WAITRESS IN A MEXICAN RESTAURANT, WHERE SHE MEETS IAN, AN ASPIRING COMEDIAN. MEANWHILE, A RAUCOUS LATE-NIGHT SHOW.
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DEXTE
R VISITS HIS PARENTS ON 15 JULY 1994 AFTER HIS MOTHER IS DIAGNOSED WITH TERMINAL CANCER. HE ARRIVES STILL UNDER THE INFLUENCE FROM A NIGHT OF HEAVY PARTYING, INFURIATING HIS FATHER. HIS MOTHER IS UNIMPRESSED WITH HIS WILD LIFESTYLE, AND TELLS HIM HE IS NOT YET A NICE PERSON.
DEXTE
R'S NEW SHOW MAKES HIM "THE MOST ANNOYING MAN ON TELLY". MEETING EMMA FOR DINNER ON 15 JULY 1996, DEXTER GETS HIGH ON COCAINE, FLIRTS WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, AND INSULTS EMMA. SHE STORMS OFF AND, DECIDING THAT THEY HAVE OUTGROWN EACH OTHER, TELLS HIM THAT ALTHOUGH SHE LOVES HIM, SHE NO LONGER LIKES HIM.
THAT NIGHT, EMMA GOES ON A DATE WITH IAN; DESPITE THEIR LACK OF CHEMISTRY, THEY BEGIN A RELATIONSHIP.AND EMMA'S BOOK IS PUBLISHED. TWO YEARS PASS AND DEXTER, DIVORCED, VISITS EMMA, NOW A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR LIVING IN PARIS. HOPEFUL AFTER A PREVIOUS DRUNKEN TRYST WITH EMMA FOLLOWING HIS DIVORCE, DEXTER LEARNS SHE HAS A NEW FRENCH BOYFRIEND, AND DEPARTS.
EMMA
AND DEXTER ARE ENGAGED BY 2004 AND EVENTUALLY MARRY. DEXTER OPENS A CAFÉ IN ENGLAND, SHARING CUSTODY OF JASMINE, AND HE AND EMMA TRY, UNSUCCESSFULLY, TO HAVE A CHILD. ON 15 JULY 2006, EMMA IS HIT BY A TRUCK WHILE RIDING HER BICYCLE, AND DIES. INCONSOLABLE, DEXTER RETURNS TO HIS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE HABITS.
OVER THE YEARS, HE IS COMFORTED BY SYLVIE, BY JASMINE, HIS WIDOWED FATHER, AND EVEN IAN, NOW HAPPILY MARRIED WITH CHILDREN,
WHO VISITS DEXTER AND TELLS HIM THAT EMMA "LIT UP" AROUND HIM, ASSURING HIM THAT "SHE MADE YOU DECENT… AND YOU MADE HER SO HAPPY".
THEY CLIMB ARTHUR'S SEAT AND AT THE TOP, HE SUGGESTS THAT INSTEAD OF BEING CASUAL FRIENDS, THEY “FINISH WHAT THEY STARTED” THE PREVIOUS NIGHT.
SS ANNE HATHAWAY SAID SHE WAS CLANDESTINELY GIVEN THE SCRIPT AS THE FILM WAS SET IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND DIRECTOR SCHERFIG WAS NOT LOOKING FOR ANY AMERICAN ACTRESSES FOR THE PART. HATHAWAY FLEW TO LONDON FOR A MEETING WITH SCHERFIG TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE SHOULD GET THE PART. HATHAWAY LATER SAID IT WAS "THE WORST MEETING OF MY LIFE... I WAS JUST INARTICULATE". VARIOUS LANDMARK LOCATIONS, INCLUDING ARTHUR'S SEAT, WERE USED.PRODUCTION THEN MOVED TO LONDON.
ACTRE
FILMI
ON LEAVING HATHAWAY WROTE OUT A LIST OF SONGS FOR SCHERFIG TO LISTEN TO, SAYING, "I CLEARLY DIDN'T COMMUNICATE TO YOU WHAT I NEEDED TO TODAY. BUT I THINK THESE SONGS CAN DO IT FOR ME." SCHERFIG DID LISTEN TO THEM, WHICH LED TO HATHAWAY GETTING THE PART.
BUT
IPAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMENCED IN JULY 2010. FILMING TOOK PLACE ON LOCATION IN SCOTLAND, ENGLAND AND FRANCE.[1] THE PRODUCTION FILMED IN EDINBURGH, THE CITY WHERE DEXTER AND EMMA FIRST MEET, IN AUGUST 2010.
PRINC
NG TOOK PLACE INSIDE A HOUSE IN GRANVILLE ROAD IN STROUD GREEN FOR SCENES INVOLVING JIM STURGESS AND ROMOLA GARAI.[8] SCENES IN THE SHOP AND CAFE WERE FILMED AT LEILA'S SHOP AND CAFE ON ARNOLD CIRCUS, CLOSE TO BRICK LANE IN THE EAST END.[9] UK RAILWAY STATION FILMING TOOK PLACE AT RIDGMONT STATION ON THE BEDFORD TO BLETCHLEY MARSTON VALE LINE.FILMING IN FRANCE TOOK PLACE IN DINAN AND DINARD, NEAR SAINT-MALO, IN BRITTANY. A SEASIDE CLUB WAS TURNED INTO THE CAFÉ PARADIS, DESIGNED TO APE GREEK THEMES.
EMMA HAS SECOND THOUGHTS AND CHASES AFTER DEXTER. THEY SHARE A PASSIONATE KISS, AND FINALLY BEGIN A RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER.
