My One and Only definitely looks nice. The costumes and sets are sharp, there are lots of good looking actors, and there's a swell car. For the most part the film looks and feels like the era it's set in. The acting varies from adequate to mediocre (Kevin Bacon has been better in TV commercials than he is in this film) with a few bright performances (Robin Weigert's being the strongest of these) that have some depth.
My One and Only would be an OK film to come across on TV one Saturday afternoon while you're doing housework. Especially if that housework involves vacuuming or being out of the room as you could miss large sections of the dialog and plot and it wouldn't matter.
The reason it wouldn't matter if you missed dialog and plot is because My One and Only is an incredibly unimaginative and obvious film. The characters are so one dimensional they could have had descriptions instead of names (Sassy Black Maid, Flamboyant Gay Son, Brooding But Sensitive Son, Talkative Traveling Salesman...). Almost everything you think will happen does. (A slightly squirmy shifty eyed hitch hiker turns out to be dangerous? No!)
The film is "loosely" based on the life of George Hamilton and it's possible that Mr. Hamilton's life was filled with stock characters and some events that seemed like they'd make for a good movie. But more likely the reason for My One and Only being such a broad and obvious film can be found in the DVD's "making of" interviews with cast and crew where almost everyone talks about the characters and story with such typical clichés it begins to feel like a Christopher Guest spoof about movie making.
My One and Only would be an OK film to come across on TV one Saturday afternoon while you're doing housework. Especially if that housework involves vacuuming or being out of the room as you could miss large sections of the dialog and plot and it wouldn't matter.
The reason it wouldn't matter if you missed dialog and plot is because My One and Only is an incredibly unimaginative and obvious film. The characters are so one dimensional they could have had descriptions instead of names (Sassy Black Maid, Flamboyant Gay Son, Brooding But Sensitive Son, Talkative Traveling Salesman...). Almost everything you think will happen does. (A slightly squirmy shifty eyed hitch hiker turns out to be dangerous? No!)
The film is "loosely" based on the life of George Hamilton and it's possible that Mr. Hamilton's life was filled with stock characters and some events that seemed like they'd make for a good movie. But more likely the reason for My One and Only being such a broad and obvious film can be found in the DVD's "making of" interviews with cast and crew where almost everyone talks about the characters and story with such typical clichés it begins to feel like a Christopher Guest spoof about movie making.