One Fine Day Reviews
Typical rom-com takes on a bit of a new flavor with these two working parents Pfeiffer and Clooney. In the middle of trying to save their careers they find each other.
Gen loved it . But way too much streamline story of two attractive people hating each other then falling in love with each other.
Old stle romance ! No need for sex scenes, bad language etc to make it nice...so sweet and real it could happen to anone
Such and underrated rom com without the usual amount of cheesiness. One of my faves!
One Fine Day features two fine-looking lead characters. So, even though the story escalates to the point of ridiculousness, it's not a problem because you don't mind watching Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney do ridiculous things. I chuckled a few times, and smiled a few more, so while this isn't one of the great romantic comedies, it's still worth watching at least once.
I don’t get why people are rated this movie so low. Classic
Underrated. It is predictable, but well-paced, charming with likeable actors. One of the few romantic-comedies I can watch twice.
The most annoying children ever in this vapid film. Predictable form the start. Even the charm of Michele Pfeiffer and George Clooney can't breathe life into this turkey.
I don't know, I can't ever get to the point to finally be able to watch one. Its like pulling a tooth.
really cute film, with well match leads who have great chemistry.
Clooney and Pfeiffer goes hand in hand for a good night's sleep, the audience meets half way for them. One Fine Day Hoffman has energy that this script needs and the film lacks. The script by Terrel Seltzer and Ellen Simon is contradicting the premise and the procedure perpetually creating, placing hurdles in front of the sugar coated lead couple of the film to overcome. And they do. And the actors, George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer, has received the love they deserve from all the corners. Their charming chemistry couldn't go unnoticed. But I want to work on the hard matter on why a film led, carried by these two stars fails and fumbles to make it through even a day. And I'd like to think maybe Michael Hoffman, the director, is adding trouble to an already lazy script. The premise is actually not what goes on the film but how the audience will and should react to the film. And with an aim of delivering a rainy feel good date movie, the film is beautiful and calm. Something that can easily be seen when any of these characters are left alone on screen or are given a close up shot. But this mellow subject or state of life that these characters are in, is rushed with a sense of urgency and a time bomb ticking behind their minds that creates an unsettling feeling for the viewers to go through. For a film that basically is on a run for most of the time, Hoffman insists on us to understand the gravitas of the decisions that these characters are making. As a result this mixture of dirty fights and sloppy kisses, never makes sense as you dive deep into their plans. One Fine Day, to be fair, is also cornered majorly by the title and its premise, it feels obliged to go through most of the mundane dull events of their life to reach to the end of the clock it wishes to, the day is longer and the night hopefully left for assumption.
One Fine Day has all the ingredients of an enjoyable romantic comedy: an engaging premise, likable leads, and a solid supporting cast. The problem is, instead of throwing the two main characters together and giving them an opportunity to get to know one another, the script insists on keeping them apart, similarly to Sleepless in Seattle, where the intention is to develop an old-fashioned, long-distance romance, as they run around New York City, trying to sort out one crisis after another. By the time they finally get a chance to snuggle together on a couch, too much time has passed for us to be enthralled by the long-delated magic that materializes. Melanie Parks, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, is a workaholic, single mom. She is a complete control freak and has no time for friends or relationships. The only one who means anything to her is her young son, Sammy. Things start going wrong for Melanie when, on a make it or break day for her career, she brings Sammy late to school and finds the doors locked. His class has already left on a field trip, and Melanie is stuck caring for him for the entire day. Meanwhile, Jack Taylor, George Clooney, is in a particularly similar situation. His newly-married ex-wife has left his daughter, Maggie, with him for a week while she's on her honeymoon. Jack, a rather disorganized, immature, and playful individual is ill-prepared to care for Maggie for an extended period, and she, like Sammy, misses the field trip. Jack and Melanie meet outside of the school and immediate begin sniping at each other. But, in the time-honored romantic comedy tradition, their barbs hide their true feelings, which gradually surface over the course of the next ninety minutes. Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney make an appealing couple. They're both charismatic, and when they're together, they generate a spark for us to want them to stay that way. Despite this electricity, the script intended to keep the leads apart. The driving force that kept bringing the two back together was the two children. When Jack's ex-wife first forced him to watch over Maddie, he was had little compassion in his life. Throughout the course of the movie, him and Maddie grew closer, teaching Jack what it means to love. He could apply these newfound feelings towards Melanie. Furthermore, the times that Melanie, Sammy, Jack, and Maggie were together, for example at the soccer game, was when Melanie realized that Jack is not just a cocky player and started developing real feelings for him. In all, One Fine Day is a must see for all of those RomCom fanatics. Both stars are enjoyably breezy, and there's enough chemistry to deflect attention from the story's endless contrivances.
Clooney and Pfeiffer are the best things about this wholly predictable movie. They not only make it watchable, but lift it up to the status of 'really quite good'. It's they who make us care about their characters. Without them, this could well have been a bad and forgettable movie.