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I always expect the worst when I will see a romantic comedy. It's all very much the same, ultra sweet and incredibly predictable. One Fine Day does confirm this, however it isn't as bad as most of the movies in the genre. It's actually a quite enjoyable and funny film.

Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney did a very good job playing two people who are divorced, with a child, afraid to commit to someone else and with a hectic life. One day, they accidentally meet at the school where their kids go to school and during the day they keep meeting, however they hate each other and don't want to see the other ever again. But as the movie progresses, the relationship between the two changes from hating each other, to liking, to ... (this is a romantic comedy, I don't have to explain everything I hope).

Even though some parts aren't excellent, the entire movie is actually quite good and enjoyable. It shows a lot of stereotypes of course like the ex-husband who doesn't want to help his ex-wife when she drowns in all the work and who needs him to take care of the kid, the man who still seems to act like a little child... But when you can see past that, it's an excellent movie to watch together with your wife or girlfriend. You'll both enjoy it. I give it a 7/10.

When movies of today try and capture that "old-fashioned" feeling, usually it's the "values" that they're trying to recapture, forgetting that if you don't make a good movie, what you're left with is two hours of preaching. This movie, on the other hand, may be trying to capture that "old-fashioned" feeling, but the values it's after are the values of craftsmanship and intelligence, two things rarely seen in comedies these days. Oh, yes, and chemistry; Clooney and Pfeiffer have it in spades here. The fact that it's set among the world of working parents and, for the most part, tries to get the details right, also helps. And, oh yeah, it's funny. It is a little cloying at times, and the end feels abrupt, but overall this is a pleasing movie.

Personally, Michelle Pfeiffer has always been a brilliant actress who makes truly two-thumps-up films. After the innocent Madame de Tourvel in "Dangerous Liaisons"; graceful Susie Diamond in "The Fabulous Baker Boys"; Confucius-like Louanne Johnson in "Dangerous Minds" ; ambitious Tally Atwater in "Up Close & Personal", it's undoubtedly wonderful to see her portray a real normal role that clings to real life, which makes me feel so close to her. George Clooney has the unique looks to play both normal man like Jack Taylor in this film and others like Daniel Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven", Ulysses McGill Everett ("O, Brother, Where Art Thou?"), Billy Tyne ("The Perfect Stor"), Thomas Devoe ("The Peacemaker") and so on. It's a great enjoyment to see these two talented actors star together in this story which gives just the wonderful description to the busy lives of modern people in big cities.

This is not a love story to me, but a story of modern busyness and love between parents and chidlren. Nowadays, people're busy with works and big events, and neglect the importance of spending time with their children, or can't be perfect at both. This film interpert the truth in a funny and warm way. It not just point out what modern people are really like, but all the potential problems (like in this film, a cellular phone mix-up, cat-eaten classroom fish, a crushed architectural model, a marble that has to be surgically removed from a small nostril, a lost child and various other crises). But even though all these catastrophes which may end up both Melanie and Jack's careers all add up in this hectic day, they finally go through all of them and it turned out to be one fine day.

I have three favorite films of all times, this is one of them. I fall in love with it when I first saw it, and till now, it remains my favorite one. "One Fine Day", a truly real, convincing, interesting, and close-to-life ONE FINE FILM!

In "One Fine Day" Jack Taylor (George Clooney) and Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) meet when their children miss a school field trip, and after much bickering they finally agree to take shifts in watching their kids. Over the course of the day they run into countless mishaps and misadventures, and come close together, to understand each other in a sort of non-romantic romantic way.

The first time I saw "One Fine Day" it was 1996 and I was seven years old. I didn't like it. I found it tedious and boring. Now I'm fourteen, and I just finished watching, and I love it? I get all the jokes I didn't get now, all the clever one-liners spoken with a bright, witty confidence that is reminiscent of Frank Capra films.

And clever they are! I have to say, when you subtract a few (very few) somewhat cheesy lines from the script, it becomes perfect. I'd go as far as to say Oscar worthy. Yes, you may think its cheesy that Jack's a famed newspaper columnist bringing down a mob member and the mayor, and Melanie's an architect working on what we imagine is a multi-million dollar deal with big businessmen, but the way it's presented is not that it makes sense, it's that you don't care. And that's not the focus of the film either, the movie would rather be about the minglings of the two leads.

And I have to say, Clooney and Pfeiffer have great, perfect chemistry. Clooney is his usual cool, intense self whereas Pfeiffer is an uptight, worrisome hard worker. They play off each other perfectly. It's not just their chemistry either, their performances stand alone as emotional, funny and smart. I'd go as far as to call Pfeiffer's Oscar worthy.

The style and direction in the film is also notable. There are split-screen conversations, some long steadicam shots, the whole placing of the camera fits perfectly with the light-hearted nature of the film.

A fun, witty, lovable family film, 7.5/10.

There is nothing to learn or makes me ponder in this movie, but it's just a sweet love-comedy that goes with a cup of milk tea or something. George Clooney is good, "cute and sexy" so to speak, even from a guy's point of view (just in case you wonder, I am male and heterosexual). Go watch it when you don't want to be buried in anything serious.

Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and mother of Sammy (Alex D. Linz). Jack Taylor (George Clooney) is a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie (Mae Whitman). They are both extremely busy divorcées, late for their kids' school field trip, and forced to babysit their kids for the day around their busy schedules.

These are two of the sexiest people in the world. It should be an easy matter to make a hot rom-com out of this. But this is a struggle. The scheduling problem reminds me of driving carpool and kids' baseball practice. And there aren't any big laughs. I think the biggest problem is that neither are great comedic actors. The humor is pretty much all the same. The kids cause problems for the parents, and they struggle to keep going with their hectic day. It's all very cute. The comedy is passable.

On the other hand, the romance doesn't get enough of a chance. They are separated for too much of the movie. I'm surprised they had time for romance with their busy day. The kids have more chemistry. The chemistry between the adults seems much more manufactured. I guess all rom-coms are manufactured. I just don't want it to feel like it.

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.

Not the sort of film I like, but then I am a man, but after being 'forced' to watch it I must admit to not finding it at all hard work. Just the 'nice' sort of film that does not seem to get made so much anymore, that is able to show the real life problems that a single parent has to go thru and then the nicer sides to that you can have in this life.

Could be a bit slow to start but then does have its funny parts that are able to make you cringe as you laugh. I would not have thought the actors could have pulled their parts off so well if I have not had seen it, and I am by no means a big fan of either of the leads but they did do a very good job of making the parts their own. Pfeiffer plays the working woman having to fight tooth and nail in this 'mans' world to keep up and Clooney (journalist) doing his part in trying to clean up the corruption going on and both able to give each other a helping hand by looking after the kids, sometimes not very well, but these parts are secondary to the main story of the two of them and a growing relationship born out of a necessity to keep a working life going while looking after the kids.

I would have no problem sitting down to watch it again and gave it a 7/10 which I feel is quite a big deal, if you feel the need to keep your better half happy on a film night you could do a lot worse :)

I would probably never watch this film, had it not been for my wife who rented the DVD. Like others here, I expect romantic comedies to be all the same - terribly unrealistic and the humor to be 3rd-grade.

But One Fine Day surprised me in many ways! First, it is not "I need insulin right now!" sweet. Also, it is surprisingly relevant for today's world, and not targeted at teeny boppers.

One Fine Day is a film with a very smart script, funny dialogues, beautiful acting, and directing, and it all gels well together. Most moviegoers today expect blood, gore, and darkness of warped minds, and it seems that films that don't have that have a hard time getting a good review. It is time we step back, enjoy some of the subtleties of life and people, and laugh at ourselves, especially when it's all presented in a believable and funny way.

The film takes us through "one fine day" of a single mother and her son, and a single father and his daughter. Due to his error, they miss their kids' field trip and are, reluctantly, helping each other take care of the kids. While he obviously likes her but has a problem with trusting again, and also suffers from questionable flirting tactics, she is more obviously shell-shocked and uses every opportunity to put him down. In a single day, they go through so many humbling episodes that the relationship develops from "I already have an opinion about you..." and "So do I..." to "I'll help you out if you say: 'Be my knight in shining armor...'"

The control freak named Melanie and played wonderfully by Michelle Pfeiffer manages to stay likable even though she "beats every miserable bastard that comes her way to a pulp". George Clooney has an easier time being liked as he is his pretty much usual self, and that's exactly what the character requires. Both kids were much better than I would normally expect them to be; I am always put off by artificial adult gestures and the "too cool for you" acting of today's kids in Hollywood films, and expected that this time it would be the same, but it was not and that was a pleasant surprise.

The humor in this film is subtle, and you may actually miss it altogether if you expect things to blow in your face. I loved those brief encounters between Melanie (Pfeiffer) and Celia (Amanda Peet) in which a beautiful perfectionist with a heart (Pfeiffer) meets her less polite match... Amanda Peet was also fantastic! Just notice how Pfeiffer's facial expression changes when she realizes who she's talking to. Another one to watch and enjoy is the episode with Melanie's boss.

Also, this film can be watched more than once, as there is a lot to appreciate about it.

Ps. A scene at the shrink's office made me laugh like never before!

This is an idea that has been plundered many times by Hollywood, but if it keeps coming up with charming, witty interpretations like this there's no reason to be disappointed. All the main characters deliver perfectly judged performances (yes, even the kids) and the film expertly tones down the vulgarity without making the ensuing proceedings too sappy. There is humour here for fans of both wit and slapstick, and impressively, one is never allowed to dominate; meaning that every member of the family should be able to find SOMETHING they enjoy. Clooney can no doubt provide the easy charm needed here effortlessly, and Michelle Pffiefer (sp?) is and always has been watchable and beautiful at the same time.

No real sparks fly between the two stars, but this is a film that sneaks up and tries to woo you slowly, rather than attempting to get you into bed on the first date. It has buckets of natural charm that help you to waive any grievances over plot contrivances or lack of uncontrollable passion. Only the hardest of hearts will remain unmoved after this cinematic breeze of a film.

This will never become a classic; it's far too 'nice' and predictable for that. It is, however, extremely easy to like. As such, it should come as no surprise that I do.

If you don't happen to be from that segment of the population like its producer Lynda Obst who finds misbehaving children who ruin their clueless parents lives cute, this movie is like finger nails on the blackboard.

The plot has more cliff hangers than the entire TCM DVD collection of film noir... each one dumber than the last, as a hapless pair of single parents try desperately to save their careers and meet the schedules and recreational activities of a pair of spoiled moppets as well.

The parents deserve everything that happens to them, and for once, the worst thing imaginable is that the meet cute couple get together in the end. And they DO... .

They will make one another's lives sheer hell!

And that IS hilarious!

This film is one of my favorites. I absolutely love it. I'm not entirely sure why i just find it really sweet and the two stars are both perfectly charming throughout. I used to have this on in the background whenever I did homework. Maybe I was just at that age when I was starting to appreciate romance when I saw it in the cinema (3 times) but I still feel this is one of the best romantic comedies I've ever seen and would definately recommend it to anyone. It's a great shame that a gem like this is so underrated. ALL of the acting is suberb. George clooney is entertaining as always in this film he made whilst it was still being debated as to whether he could transcend tv and become a movie star.

The outcome of this movie is known from the start but there are still enough witty exchanges, arguments, and bonding scenes to make the journey worthwhile once thorough. I don't think anyone will see this film more than that. Michelle Pfeiffer is very convincing in her role and Mr. Clooney has the abundant roguish charm to make his character very likeable. The child actors also play off each other and the adult leads very well mostly because of their innate child qualities. All in all a slightly better than average diversion, 7/10.

I've seen bad movies before in my life, but none I've HATED more than this one. This movie actually frustrated me and gave me a headache. I hated every character, and hoped their lives all ended in disaster. I paid nothing for this movie, and I still felt ripped off. The kids in the movie show how people let their children run rampant without discipline, and even when their careers might be on the line because they are late for an appointment, they can sit down and talk to their kid about why they can't have a cat.

People say that action and horror movies shouldn't be made because they make people more likely to commit violent acts. I can honestly say that I've never been more likely to commit a violent act than after I watched this horribly bad movie.

The headlong screwball comedy of this breakneck romance of two stressed-out single parents is a delight from beginning to end. It has scenes as quick witted - and often as wackily off-kilter! - as the adults must be just in order to survive their average day. Stir love into this mess of two increasingly desparate modern lives and you get a miraculous souffle of a film, at once sharp and sweet.

No scene is laboured, no point is telegraphed, and - phenomenally for a modern American film - neither kids nor kittens are allowed to smother the audience in the nauseous layers of cutesiness that are usually applied. The scene with the analyst, where Clooney must obscure his account of his sex-life in an ever-more-surrealistic periphrasis involving iced cakes and fish, since his little daughter has to accompany him into the presumably crecheless analyst's surgery, and her dad is embarassed to expose her to such adult matters as he is obliged to reveal during the session, is a scene which is a model of intelligent and stylish comedy writing. The dialogue of both himself and his analyst finally founders on the increasingly strained comparisons and metaphors being attempted. The analyst begins to construct an alarmingly kinky lifestyle for his client out of what he takes to be Freudian suggestions - but which are, as noted, merely the product of old-fashioned seemliness - whereupon Clooney is forced to bring the whole towering edifice back down to earth when his version of the morning's business with the goldfish gets mixed up in the heady brew of symbolism: 'No. I mean fish. You know - 'Fish' fish?'

The humour is all good, never strained, and beautifully played by all the principals, including the wonderfully un-sentimentalised children. The transformation, stage-by-stage, of the harsh mutual competition and resentment that exists at first between these harassed adults, into an exhausted truce, by way of barely-restrained irritation, grudging gratitude, reluctant respect, and growing affection, is handled with considerable dramatic finesse throughout.

To produce the unlikely union of such an ill-assorted pair under such utterly unpropitious and unromantic circumstances is a comedic challenge of considerable proportions, and the makers of this film do an excellent job to bring it off at all. The spirits of Grant and Hepburn - even Beatrice and Benedict - are not too far away.

The only disappointment is to see how many people in the audience have gone home just as sour as when they arrived, judging from some of the comments here. But then, love curdles in any mean-spirited breast.

One particularly admires the fact that, at its conclusion, the film's romantic clincher - when the tired-out couple have to settle for just falling asleep together, despite their by now clearly desparate need for each other, - insists upon the importance of exactly this: Love, rather than merely lust, as the basis for an adult relationship.

Just occasionally, Hollywood still lets us have a grown-up entertainment. It makes a pleasant and wholesome change from the usual fare of adolescent dreams.

I know George Clooney Fans, particularly women would love this because he conveys his father-like persona. He's also the best thing in this. The movie is nice and a decent watch but no masterpiece obviously. It's nice.

One Fine Day features two fine-looking lead characters. So, even though the story escalates to the point of ridiculousness, it's not a problem because you don't mind watching Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney do ridiculous things. I chuckled a few times, and smiled a few more, so while this isn't one of the great romantic comedies, it's still worth watching at least once.

Long gone are the days when I considered myself a romantic but that doesn't prevent me from enjoying this charming romantic comedy to a degree, even though it is a genre of film that I used to like better when I was younger. For a romantic comedy this one is fun and has some charm. It is romantic without being too lame or mushy stuff, although it still is cheesy at times.

George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer have perfect chemistry. So have the two kids, as good in their respective roles as the adults are on theirs.

Despite all the fast pace and daily rush subject this films deals with, it still has room for classic humor, romance and a certain nostalgic/classic feeling to it thanks to oldie songs and the excellent scenario of New York city, making that city look perhaps better than it really is, especially now after the horrifying events of 11th September 2001.

George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer would make a good couple in real life, just like Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner would. Their characters's rivalries are funny although they become frustrating after a while, but not profane or sadistic, they're just normal (if unnecessary) rivalries.

This should please most fans of romantic comedies and might as well please (to a degree) some who are not into this type of film.

As far as rom-coms goes, this is one of the best I have seen. Its focus on the busy daily lives and juggling there children made for a great comedic formula, with a romantic tie-in developing slowly along the way. Pfeiffer and Clooney worked brilliant together and following them through this one adventurous day was really enjoyable. Of course it was a little predictable and had few emotional dramas but in the end it felt like a competent and believable ride which sidelined as a love story.

Okay, I LOVE romantic comedies so this is probably not too objective but... gee, I loved this movie. It follows an old formula that has worked so many times and that is still working: 2 people who can't stand each other at first happen to spend some time together and eventually find each other attractive. This requires 2 main things: 1.) Two great actors with wonderful chemistry 2.) An original and funny script We have seen this in so many movies like 6 Days 7 Nights with Anne Heche and Harrison Ford or You've Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan or recently in The Runaway Bride with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. I loved all these movies for they simply worked to charme me. One Fine Day fits perfectly to this list. George Clooney ( who proves that he can be a very funny guy) and Michelle Pfeiffer ( who gives a great performance in this movie) have very good chemistry and the script is very funny and romantic with some really great one-liners. This movie entertained me very much and it wasn't boring as I saw it the second time. For it's charme and fun, I give this movie 9/10.

A tremendous day in New York !! By chance two single parents meet in this hudge town and they will have a very busy day solving at the same time their professional problems and taking care alternatively of their children. It's a pleasant, sweet,charmng and touching comedy, especially because two children Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman play their roles with charm !! I had also the feeling that George Cloony and Michelle Pfeiffer enjoyed their roles in this comedy !!

I had to watch this dreadful film on a bus ride. It's supposed to be a sweet romantic comedy with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer but the film just falls short. They're both single parents in New York City and they are having the worst day or the best day. The film's writing is weak and the actors don't do anything for me. The film is really bad in my opinion and I can't stand George Clooney at all as obnoxious jerk of a Daily News reporter, Jack Taylor. Michelle Pfeiffer does better as an architect, single mother. The supporting cast is excellent except they're just acting their parts. The film is a lame attempt to talk about single parenting in the city. The supporting cast has Holland Taylor as Melanie's mother just like her role as Evelyn on television. Ellen Greene is barely recognizable as Elaine Lieberman but does a nice job. Charles Durning is wonderful as always as Jack's boss. Sheila Kelley plays Jack's ex. Pete Hamill, a well known New York City reporter, plays a New York City reporter by a different name. I don't know why they just didn't let him play himself. Pete Hamill is a New York City institution. Anyway, the film was done a few years before events changed New York City forever.

I saw this on a Sunday while doing laundry, thinking that it was a good way to waste time at my inlaws, and instead found a truly enjoyable comedy. I have read reviews that call it "predictable yet enjoyable", yet, I find it reminiscent of the screwball comedies of Hollywood's past, extremely funny & unrealistic & realistic all at the same time. I can think of no better way to spend my one day off a week with my husband than including a movie like this into our plans.

The fine day of the title is ironic. In fact we are seeing a rainy day in chaotic New York, where a man and a woman, both divorced, are trying to fulfil their hectic schedules with their respective children in tow. The man is Jack Taylor, a high-flying reporter (George Clooney), and the woman is Melanie Parker, an equally ambitious architect (Michelle Pfeiffer). Due to a mix-up, the two children (excellently played by Mae Whitman & Alex Linz), miss out on a school trip, and the parents agree to share responsibilities between them. All sorts of mishaps befall them, including Melanie losing Jack's daughter for a while. The stress and strain results in much hostility and fault-finding between the two leads. Which fools nobody. We can see the result coming a mile off.

This predictable movie certainly isn't the finest day of either Clooney or Pfeiffer. Both have made celluloads of better films. HOWEVER, it's a really enjoyable film to watch if you want the feelgood factor. Perhaps you have had a bad day, and it's raining outside. Watch this movie curled up on the sofa, with a cup of steaming cocoa. it's a nice lovable Hollywood romance. Clooney is Clooney, and Pfeiffer is always luminous even in her less demanding roles. And listen out for a meltingly beautiful performance of "One fine day" by Natalie Merchant (though it was the song "For the first time" that got Oscar-nominated).

Clearly Clooney is not that bad and Pfeiffer knows how to handle this sort of role to perfection (Frankie and Johnny) but this is truly awful - even the children are lacklustre and weighed down by a terrible script and sluggish production. None of the support shines and the whole thing becomes unwatchable very quickly. Persevering to the end produces no reward whatsoever - miss this!