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Bookmark this pageOne Fine Day (1996)
Director: Michael Hoffman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
More a mobile-phone movie than an old-fashioned romantic comedy, this irksomely frenetic love story sees single mother Melanie (Pfeiffer, not glamorous but with all modern Hollywood's ersatz PC trimmings) and divorced weekend dad Jack (arch-mugger Clooney) meeting cute all over touristy New York City. It's a tease. Melanie falls in hate at first sight, as Jack's lateness at the school gates means their respective five-year-olds will miss the Circle Line ferry trip. But necessity makes strange bedfellows - though it could hurry up! - as the two are forced to care for each other's kids in rotation while she races to close an architectural project and he hurtles about to support a City Hall corruption piece he's written.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Hoffman
Producer: Lynda Obst
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D Linz, Charles Durning, John Robin Baitz, Ellen Greene, Joe Gifasi, Pete Hamill full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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