One Fine Day is a lightweight easy-to-swallow romantic comedy filled with fun and humor, yet at the same time it has the power to be emotional and uplifting. The beauty of One Fine Day is that it's basically a platonic love story. There is technically no romantic relationship between the characters as they have just met for the first time in the beginning of the story and as the title suggests, the movie only takes us through their first day of having known each other, and this is a very intelligent film for knowing that the early stages are really the most exciting part of romance.
Our platonic couple in this story are a single mom architect named Melanie and a single dad journalist dad named Jack who are tied together in this story more out of necessity than anything else. For one thing, their kids missed the bus for the day's field trip and this also, coincidentally is a very important day with their jobs, so they need to pool their resources together in order to keep their kids out of trouble and their jobs respectively. We get to sort of watch a simulated relationship here, as the way these two must attend to each other's needs, even in a forced situation like this, parallels the way two people in a relationship would do so. Some of the inadvertent events in the story, a rivalry that develops between Melanie and an admirer of Jack, or a brief meeting between Jack and Melanie's mom, help add to this effect. In terms of their needs, the two have such unforgiving bosses and they catch so few breaks, with all their relatives bailing out, that they become very needy. The intelligence again comes from the fact that with Michelle Pfieffer and George Clooney there, the two protagonists are both very strong and capable characters. In fact, we come to sympathize with them over the outside factors that deny them an easy solution for their problems to the point where they become antiheroes. Clooney and Pfieffer's younger counterparts, Mae Whittman and Alex Lunz as the two kids, pull off the two big requirements of their role: being loveable and cute but at the same time highly annoying as one likes to stick things up his nose and the other one likes to wander off.
The script ties up story like clockwork in a fun lightweight film done beautifully.
Our platonic couple in this story are a single mom architect named Melanie and a single dad journalist dad named Jack who are tied together in this story more out of necessity than anything else. For one thing, their kids missed the bus for the day's field trip and this also, coincidentally is a very important day with their jobs, so they need to pool their resources together in order to keep their kids out of trouble and their jobs respectively. We get to sort of watch a simulated relationship here, as the way these two must attend to each other's needs, even in a forced situation like this, parallels the way two people in a relationship would do so. Some of the inadvertent events in the story, a rivalry that develops between Melanie and an admirer of Jack, or a brief meeting between Jack and Melanie's mom, help add to this effect. In terms of their needs, the two have such unforgiving bosses and they catch so few breaks, with all their relatives bailing out, that they become very needy. The intelligence again comes from the fact that with Michelle Pfieffer and George Clooney there, the two protagonists are both very strong and capable characters. In fact, we come to sympathize with them over the outside factors that deny them an easy solution for their problems to the point where they become antiheroes. Clooney and Pfieffer's younger counterparts, Mae Whittman and Alex Lunz as the two kids, pull off the two big requirements of their role: being loveable and cute but at the same time highly annoying as one likes to stick things up his nose and the other one likes to wander off.
The script ties up story like clockwork in a fun lightweight film done beautifully.