It seemed like an unlikely road trip on the surface. A mother taking her two teenage sons on the road across the country in search of a husband who is able to fund for her and her two sons. As the film begins, 15-year-old George Devarux (Logan Lerman) began to tell the story of how he would end up in a car showroom with his older half-brother Robbie (Mark Rendall) to the car salesmen.
It would turn out that his parents, band leader father Danny (Kevin Bacon) and mother Anne (Renee Zellweger) has gone their separate ways after Anne, who has never taken an interest in her sons' personal lives and interests, caught her husband in an affair with her taking the sons with her away along with the cash from her safe deposit box. The cash was to be used to buy a car to be on the road for both mother and sons, but the salesmen were initially suspicious of George's reasoning even after he had finished telling his story. That is where his mother came into the scene.
The road trip would eventually come to pass, with the 15-year-old George driving despite having no driving licence of his own. Mother and sons first arrived in Boston to try their luck before Pittsburgh. Both cities turned out to be disappointments at various levels for Anne as she tried to search for a husband, with her losing her money, being sexually assault at one time, being sent briefly into a jail, and nearly being engaged to a man who is already married.
One thing is for certain even if Anne and her sons would end up at her sister Hope's (Robin Weigert) residence in St. Louis when she had exhausted all options. Her younger son George has always wanted to lead a life of his own, but is angry at how his mother does not understand him well, to the extent of not knowing what was his favourite book which his aunt actually knew the answer. Getting frustrated, Anne slapped him and George left the house. He would eventually return and an incident which occurred when his mother and younger half-brother Robbie were on route to Los Angeles had him reuniting with them.
It is a film based on actor George Hamilton's early life on the road with his mother Ann and brother, as told to his friend Merv Griffin. What happened to the 15-year-old George Devarux in the end in the film mirrors the real George Hamilton's early days in acting in the early 50s, with a real sense of that decade shown in the cinematography and especially on Renee Zellweger who plays the mother Anne in the film. For those who recalled Zellweger's title role as Bridget Jones in 'The Bridget Jones's Diary' in 2001, there is a sense of déjà vu over a scene where she pretended to be living in the old Hollywood glamour as compared to this film in terms of the timing of when the events in 'My One and Only' took place.
In a sense, it feels like one is living in that period of time convincingly.
It would turn out that his parents, band leader father Danny (Kevin Bacon) and mother Anne (Renee Zellweger) has gone their separate ways after Anne, who has never taken an interest in her sons' personal lives and interests, caught her husband in an affair with her taking the sons with her away along with the cash from her safe deposit box. The cash was to be used to buy a car to be on the road for both mother and sons, but the salesmen were initially suspicious of George's reasoning even after he had finished telling his story. That is where his mother came into the scene.
The road trip would eventually come to pass, with the 15-year-old George driving despite having no driving licence of his own. Mother and sons first arrived in Boston to try their luck before Pittsburgh. Both cities turned out to be disappointments at various levels for Anne as she tried to search for a husband, with her losing her money, being sexually assault at one time, being sent briefly into a jail, and nearly being engaged to a man who is already married.
One thing is for certain even if Anne and her sons would end up at her sister Hope's (Robin Weigert) residence in St. Louis when she had exhausted all options. Her younger son George has always wanted to lead a life of his own, but is angry at how his mother does not understand him well, to the extent of not knowing what was his favourite book which his aunt actually knew the answer. Getting frustrated, Anne slapped him and George left the house. He would eventually return and an incident which occurred when his mother and younger half-brother Robbie were on route to Los Angeles had him reuniting with them.
It is a film based on actor George Hamilton's early life on the road with his mother Ann and brother, as told to his friend Merv Griffin. What happened to the 15-year-old George Devarux in the end in the film mirrors the real George Hamilton's early days in acting in the early 50s, with a real sense of that decade shown in the cinematography and especially on Renee Zellweger who plays the mother Anne in the film. For those who recalled Zellweger's title role as Bridget Jones in 'The Bridget Jones's Diary' in 2001, there is a sense of déjà vu over a scene where she pretended to be living in the old Hollywood glamour as compared to this film in terms of the timing of when the events in 'My One and Only' took place.
In a sense, it feels like one is living in that period of time convincingly.