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.
1984, Paris, France
23 July 1982, England, UK
1982, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
17 February 1940, Marton, New Zealand
2 May 1974, Bromham, Bedfordshire, England, UK
12 November 1982, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 October 1991, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
22 September 1986, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
2 September 1976, UK
1987, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
February 28, 2013
For everyone who's grown tired of the summer onslaught of superheroes, save-the-world plots and explosions, Hollywood finally offers some decent counter-programming in the form of the brainy romance One Day.
August 19, 2011
It's what a Nicholas Sparks movie would be if it were aimed at grown women rather than teenage girls.
August 19, 2011
The result is a rom-com with ambition, keen to actually develop the characters and to mix a few tears with the laughs. Well, the effort is admirable, the movie not so much.
August 24, 2011
The film might make the book look less astute and interesting than it is, but it still has an undeniable emotional wallop by its close.
August 19, 2011
Miscasting aside, there's simply very little excitement to the film since you can see where it's going -- chances are even just by reading this review -- right from the start.
December 22, 2011
An average romantic dramedy, 'One Day' tips its hand so early in the game that you won't be a bit surprised by anything that ensues.
December 07, 2011
...you can't help feeling this dreary tale could have done with a bit of fancy editing or narrative reconstruction.
September 28, 2012
I couldn't help but feel the film was lent shades of colour by the book; colour that simply doesn't exist on the screen. I projected 435 pages of joy onto a film that probably didn't deserve it.
January 14, 2013
Ends better than it begins -- or middles.
December 01, 2011
The most entertaining and engrossing romantic film to hit theaters in ages...
August 23, 2011
One Day is just a gimmicky "new" way of doing an old-fashioned love story. But we'll hear much more of Sturgess, Hathaway, and Lone Scherfig.
August 19, 2011
Director Lone Scherfig, working from Nicholls's screenplay, takes a big step back here from An Education, her last film
