
Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their university graduation. We see them every year on the anniversary of that date - July 15th. Emma is smart but success doesn't come quickly for her, whereas for Dexter, success and women come very easily. Through the years they grow apart as their lives take different directions and they meet other people. But as they grow apart from those other people and their lives start taking opposite directions again, Emma and Dexter find that th... (Full plot summary below)
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Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their university graduation. We see them every year on the anniversary of that date - July 15th. Emma is smart but success doesn't come quickly for her, whereas for Dexter, success and women come very easily. Through the years they grow apart as their lives take different directions and they meet other people. But as they grow apart from those other people and their lives start taking opposite directions again, Emma and Dexter find that they belong with each other.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOne Day is a beautiful movie, but beautiful in a way that life often is, not movies. Nothing is sudden or easy, either for the characters or for the audience, and there are no thunderbolts from the blue. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigOne Day is an aching lovely romance, but it's also an insightful look at human potential and the search for a purposeful existence. |
| Miami HeraldConnie OgleDirector Lone Scherfig (An Education) doesn't have such luxury, but she infuses her snapshots of their relationship with humor and poignancy. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn a season of movies dumb and dumber, One Day has style, freshness, and witty bantering dialogue. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe two actors are at their best when Emma and Dexter get emotionally naked. It's mildly enjoyable to listen to the self-deprecating banter people use to conceal anxieties, but we connect to them most deeply when they bare their souls. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyOne Day, despite its attractiveness, never manages to find a way to bring the conceit fully to life. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttDanish director Lone Scherfig skillfully adapts David Nicholls' best-selling romantic novel to the screen. |
| IndiewireEric KohnAnne 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. |
| Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSturgess, saddled with a caddish character, is less compelling, but he does provide the film's only spot of unloosed, raw emotion. Everything else feels too precisely and too compactly assembled for much impact. |
| VarietyJustin ChangOn 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. |