One Fine Day (1996)

You won't be disappointed!

I'll tell you why so serious

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

One Fine Day is a perfect example of the practical aspects of love and how it is not always about roses for gifts, heartfelt proposals or the first love of our life that is required to be happy. The story is about two single parents, played by the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer and the ever charming George Clooney. Their on screen chemistry is just fabulous to watch and the entire movie progresses on how caring about little things in life amidst all the chaos can lead to the perfect partner in the most unexpected of ways. George Clooney's chocolate voice does the trick again as his dialogs are delivered with the minimum of efforts and yet they reach very deep, specially for a lady. Michelle Pfeiffer looks very comfortable (even when playing a worked up single mother) in all her scenes and the script is decent too. The kids are cute, very cute. The ease with which the story of this movie progresses by is showcased by Mr. Clooney's gentle smile which pretty much says it all, "Don't worry..It'll come through!". The last scene of the movie and the conversation that the two leads have in that is fantastically humorous and romantic in its own ways! Excellent conversations all throughout! If you are feeling the lack of warmth in your everyday life, please watch this once. A movie for the true believers! :)

I was watching this movie mainly because I love Michelle pfieffer, shes my dream woman and one of my favorite actresses. But this movie just showed messed up lives of 2 single ultra busy parents. All they did through the entire film was run around, worried all the time, hectic beyond measure, dealing with a bunch of jerks, dealing with there kids. it just was too much. there was little to no romance except at the very end but the rest of the time pfieffer and Clooney are bitter, bickering, looking the other way all the time, talking on cell phones and it just lacked any real warmth between the 2. this isn't supposed to be frankie and johnny but it seems more like the PG13 version of that movie. perhaps some parts of it were funny, the rest of it was just a reminder of why I am glad I 1. am not a single parent 2. glad I don't live in the city with all these creeps 3. don't have to deal with all these super pressures with kids attached to the hip. everyone has'em, but it just made me kinda sad that both these people are divorced and just kinda draggin these kids around with no other parent to help them out. I mean, I understand the divorce rate is high today, but I would have rather seen a story of a divorced couple getting back together then these super busy workaholic dopes who have to drag there kids along every 2 minutes. they need both a mother and a father, not just one or the other being dragged around like rag dolls everywhere they go. Dad goes to work, mom stays home to raise the kids. this is ideally how it should be. not in this day and age apparently. this movie was in its own way showing the ridiculous stupid reality of today and was quite frankly depressing to witness. you don't get the feeling Clooney and pfieffers characters were going to be together very long after the credits role.

I loved this film! It captures perfectly the daily struggle of single parents coping imperfectly with the demands of raising their children. The background of a rainy springtime New York fit the mood perfectly.Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) opens the film dejectedly sitting at her desk writing checks to pay the many pressing bills. Her ex-husband is far more involved in his own pursuits than concern for his son. I suspect that Melanie is getting little financial support from a musician who works only intermittently. The blues really hit home when you get to the late hours and the distractions of earning a living are on temporary hold. It gets really hard not to dump on the absent spouse to preserve a child's relationship to the missing parent.Jack Taylor (George Clooney) lives in a wreck of an apartment that he has no ambition to repair. He has custody of his daughter every other weekend and he is able to get back at his ex-wife by forcing her to leave her daughter in a environment that totally offends her sense of order without being so ramshackle that she can get the courts to intervene. Lots of childish bickering between the parents accompany every custody weekend. Total realism in that scene where the daughter Maggie (Mae Whitman) is dropped off.Melanie is a woman who has been forced to become much more forceful than her nature would prefer. She has enrolled her son Sammy (Alex D. Linz) in a prestigious private school rather than the far inferior public school. That schooling demands the income of a professional woman. She must function in a competitive professional environment. She cannot afford to allow sentiment to hinder her career if she is to provide for her son. But her career is balanced on a knife edge. When Sammy and Maggie miss their school's field trip, due to Jack's cavalier attitude toward the school schedule, the children wind up complicating their parent's already hectic schedule.Jack Taylor definitely has some childlike qualities that both intrigue and annoy Melanie. These traits are what doomed her marriage and she cannot afford to fall for the same irresponsible type of man. She takes a while to realize that when the chips are down, Jack can bring considerable resources to bear on a problem. Jack adores his daughter but is ill equipped to provide a suitable home environment for a girl. Deep down, he realizes he desperately needs a good wife. This awareness makes Jack resist the allure of his coworker Celia, who would enjoy getting much closer to him.It was touching to watch the two children start to bond during their enforced togetherness at the day care center. Sammy starts to look after the welfare of Maggie when it would be easy to just consider himself. Melanie starts to apply her maternal care to Maggie as well as to her son. Jack starts to take an interest in Sammy, a boy who is desperate to have a father in his life. The bond between the parents grows in large measure from their growing attachment to each other's children.The unruly behavior of the two children was very realistic. Children in broken homes often develop such problems. A divorce impacts every aspect of a child's development.The film compresses the development of the romance into a single day. That is somewhat forced and unrealistic. Otherwise, this film is spot on and a joy to watch.

I'm a big fan of both Clooney and Pfeiffer when they're both in their element. This is pretty close to it. As a romcom based in the Big Apple there has to be pace, sharp dialogue and wit (not least from the director, Michael Hoffman). We get all of this although one has the feeling that everyone got together beforehand and told each other 'this film's got to have pace, sharp dialogue, wit...'Jack (Clooney)'s ex-wife is exactly the same as Melanie (Pfeiffer). Caught on a day when she's up against it though she let's her tongue of the leash and this grips Jack's wilfully boyish imagination. This seems like a particularly cunning stroke one behalf of the writing team, who must be aware of Clooney's huge appeal across a broad range of women and, realising that inclusion is better business than alienating any one group, make it clear that even the generically rejected aren't terminally out of the running. The rest of the film is a version of The Parent Trap in which the couple's sparky children involuntarily contrive to bring the adults together.So far, two acts down and so good but then the film switches off. It's a great shame that no-one could find something more stimulating or intelligent to close the movie out. Still the stars know that they're the draw of the project and give good, if perfunctory happy ending. 6/10