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One Day (12A)

Drama, Romance

After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.

More information on this production is available at www.onedaymovie.co.uk.

The critical consensus

Much of Nicholls’ sharp dialogue and emotional truth remains intact, but the over-faithful translation does little to compensate for what can’t be lifted from the page.

***(*)(*)Emma Dibdin, Total Film, 17/08/2011

Those not entranced by the book may buy it, but hardcore fans will be disappointed.

***(*)(*)James Mottram, The List, 17/08/2011

On the film trundles, feeling less like One Day and more like The Longest Day, leaving no soapy cliché untouched.

**(*)(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 23/08/2011

The fun and popular David Nicholls novel has become a so-so rom-com, though Anne Hathaway's accent isn't quite the disaster many forecast.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 24/08/2011

As it is, one of the most perceptive books of our age has been turned into just another romcom, and not even a very good one.

David Cox, The Guardian, 24/08/2011

The film’s main failing has to do with its handling of time, not ecky thump accents. The device that made the book work so well, setting the tale over decades, drains the story of life when the same technique is deployed in the film.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 25/08/2011

Everyone involved singularly fail to raise a titter but, not content with being unfunny, unromantic and vacuous, it gets even worse by going all Nicholas Sparks on us and, during a horribly protracted final stretch, it becomes a watch-checker of the worst order.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 25/08/2011

It may not truly capture the complexities of its source material but One Day is funny, winning and entertaining - if little else.

***(*)(*)Ian Freer, Empire Online, 22/08/2011

What’s left is a pleasant, occasionally amusing, tragically tasteful romantic drama. That’s not an insignificant achievement, but it does create an odd situation in which One Day, the book, is more cinematic than One Day, the movie.

***(*)(*)Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph, 25/08/2011

It's hard to shake off an overridig sense of pointlessness.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 25/08/2011

One Day, the screen adaptation of the hugely popular novel by David Nicholls, is a romcom that goes beyond genre conventions but still delivers.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 26/08/2011

The one problem with the film - and it's a big one - is that you never get the sense that Emma and Dexter were made for one another.

***(*)(*)Daily Record, 26/08/2011

By the very end, then, One Day had won me over. But a four-hour TV mini-series would have been better.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 28/08/2011

Thin, superficial and sentimental.

Philip French, The Observer, 28/08/2011


Features about One Day (12A)

One Day? I'd never heard of it, says director Lone Scherfig

Will Lawrence, The Telegraph, 12/08/2011

Edinburgh embraces a Hollywood affair

Matthew Bell, The Independent, 14/08/2011

Anne Hathaway shouldn't be the sex object in One Day

Anne Billson, The Guardian, 18/08/2011

One Day we'll meet again (and again and again and again and again)

Lina Dad and Nicole Lampert, Daily Mail, 19/08/2011

Anne Hathaway watched Emmerdale to perfect Yorkshire accent for One Day

Henry Barnes, The Guardian, 24/08/2011

One Day (12A)

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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