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One Day is the adaptation of the bestselling book of the same name. In what can only be hope is a good sign, the film has been adapted by the book’s author David Nicholls. There is certainly a quality pedigree with the director, Lone Scherfig, whose last film was An Education. An Education had three Academy Award nominations, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actress (Carey Mulligan). As well as those honours, Scherfig was nominated for a BAFTA as best director.
It has all of the Hallmarks of being a clever romance, witch we still, perhaps, don’t get often enough on the big screen. The concept is also a good one, which worked very well in the book and has hopefully been translated well to the screen: Following the two protagonists over a twenty year period. But I’ll let the professionals at Focus Features explain it to you...
“Twenty years...two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of "An Education," Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture "One Day" is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day. After one day together - July 15th, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of "Across the Universe") begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.”
Featurette Anne Hathaway...
Clip Crush on you...
Clip I think about you...
Clip Screwed up...
Featurette Changes & grows...
The film opens on the 19th of August in north America and the 24th in the UK (riots and mass thieving permitting) It’s out everywhere else from that time. (International release dates here...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1563738/releaseinfo )
It’s got to be worth a shout and don’t forget, if you like the movie, buy the book...
The Novel...
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