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"One Fine Day" opens with a warm atmosphere. It is raining and the camera is outside of a building, walking through the houses and showing us the people that are inside their homes. This is also how the film ends. This early scene is accompanied by Natalie Merchant's song - One Fine Day - just like the name of the film. The opening scene signals the overall mood and atmosphere of the film. Despite all the rush during its progress, "One Fine Day" is peaceful and relaxing. Just like other examples of Romantic Comedy genres, it is rich with beautiful soundtracks and manages to take this beauty one step further by getting itself an Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Song, "For the First Time" performed by Kenny Loggins. The name of the film is also inspired by 1963 song with the same name, performed by The Chiffons. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, as Melanie, and George Clooney, as Jack, "One Fine Day" has the usual clichés of the genre, but manages to make a slight difference with the amazing performances of Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman, as the kids of Melanie and Jack.Melanie is an architect and a self-disciplined independent single mother. She has her rules and tries to handle everything by herself. Jack, on the other hand, is a reporter and an easygoing single guy. After his ex-wife goes on honeymoon with her new husband, Jack remains with his daughter for a week and in their first day together, both Melanie and Jack's kids lose their school field trip because of Jack, and both parents remain with their kids in their busy schedules, and this creates a series of funny and misfortunate events for everyone involved. Even though it is obvious from the first meeting that both Melanie and Jack fall in love with each other, for the sake of the story they keep contradicting and hating each other. The director Michael Hoffman, doesn't try to prioritize these conflicts and he is using relatively smart conversations. These conversations reveal little hate, passion and love. Even from this point of view you can pretty much guess how this film is going to end.The casting is brilliant and it is a pleasure to watch these highly talented people in a romantic comedy. From supporting roles to the main characters, everyone fits in this story. Plot is not something extraordinary (if there is one) and misfortunate events are added in the story in a forced way. I mean, we are presented with two different profiles of Jack and Melanie. From the beginning, we get the idea that they are completely different, and the director concentrates on this pretty much, however, the problem-solving skills of these people do not match with their problem handling strategies. This leaves gaps within the story and damages its credibility. Other than this, both Jack and Melanie have the mandatory level of attractiveness for the leading roles, and I find the scenes where women throw themselves on Jack quite unnecessary. Everyone gets the idea that Jack is an attractive guy and has a strong character. It was meaningless to make extra efforts to stress this fact. Leaving this aside, I have especially enjoyed Michelle Pfeiffer performance. "One Fine Day" is warm and everything else is highly enjoyable. This film has only one purpose to serve, and this purpose is to make you feel good. In my opinion it manages to do that with flying colors. Imagine a rainy day in New York. I think there is nothing better than this. All the rush during the film, all the chaos, all the panic makes the film better and the ending more meaningful. Eventually under the shadow of sleepiness, late in the night, Melanie and Jack meet and they fall asleep in each other's arms while kids are watching The Wizard of Oz, and the film ends exactly as it starts, with camera rolling outside of their building witnessing once more the lives of the neighbors. How nice it is to see people minding their own business and living in a happy and peaceful way. This is not mentioned or shown anywhere in the film; however, it is not very hard to imagine this after watching "One Fine Day." It is a film of good mood and happy thoughts. If there is such thing "One Fine Day" is perfect for a rainy afternoon.

One Fine Day came out in 1996 and starred Michelle Phieffer and George Clooney and tells the tale of two single parents both whom were divorced by their partners team up after both kids end up losing their trip with the school kids. Of course both parents decide to take it in turns to watch both of their kids as Melaine(Phieffer) has a big promotion at her job while Jack(Clooney) is a reporter who wants to find out about a woman named Elaine. So will Jack and Melanie fall for each other?Bottom line I always loved this film not because of the story but I always loved George Clooney and Michelle Phieffer and I thought their chemistry was very good. I was happy that I got it on DVD having grown up as a kid watching it on TV,so I can watch it again and again. Underrated romantic comedy.4 stars **** out of ***** B+

I knew it was going to be a predictable storyline.....but...... I was hoping the comedy would be good enough to compensate for the predictability of the wafer-thin storyline. I was wrong! It's not like there was no comedy - there was a fair sprinkling of good scenes - but nowhere near enough to make it worthwhile. Not the worst film I ever watched....but I've definitely seen better (funnier). Good to see a few old faces in the supporting cast - they helped make it almost worth watching - especially Clooney' newspaper boss. It was just another Hollywood "recipie movie" - pour in the ingredients - and out comes the cake - but it was just to sugary and not enough substance.

I had heard of this film once before because of the leading actor and actress starring, and I am not one to turn the occasional possibly naff and cheesy but easy to like love story filled with giggle, from director Michael Hoffman (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Basically, in New York City, Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and single mother to son Sammy (Home Alone 3's Alex D. Linz), Jack Taylor (George Clooney) is a New York Daily News columnist and single father to daughter Maggie (Independence Day's Mae Whitman), both of them are divorced. One fine day the two parents meet each other, morning time, and when both the children are late for the field trips they were meant to go, they are forced to join the parents during their hectic schedules, and make sure that they are cared for with their needs as well. Melanie must show an important client her architectural design presentation, and Sammy is causing havoc when he causes her to break her scale model, and in frustration she takes him to a daycare centre, holding a "Superhero Day". Jack is trying to get a scoop from Mayor Sidney Aikens (Sidney Armus) about his connections with the mob, and he is bringing Maggie to the daycare centre as well, and they have improvised superhero costumes made. Melanie is on her way to a meeting she gets a worrying phone call from her son about something to do with drugs, and in desperation she asks Jack, who she has the number of now, to get the kids, and he agrees as long as she has them at a time. Melanie breaks down while with the kids she loses Maggie, and she is forced to report the child missing, but thankfully she is found, and Jack is informed of this occurrence, but he makes it to the press conference to confront the Mayor and get his scoop. Sammy is looking forward to a soccer game that his father will hopefully be at, his mother insists she will have time to pitch her architecture idea to the clients at a restaurant, but she sacrifices it during, at risk of getting fired, for the sake of her child. The clients were actually impressed with her dedication to her child, and Sammy and Maggie make it to the soccer game, with Sammy's father indeed showing up, but not for long, as he is drumming for Bruce Springsteen. That evening Jack needs an excuse to go and see Melanie at her apartment, so he gets Maggie to buy a new goldfish to replace their other one that was eaten by the cat. While the children watch The Wizard of Oz together, Jack and Melanie seem to get on much better than they were in their hectic day, where they squabbled and were rushed, but they share a kiss, before falling asleep together on the sofa. Also starring The Muppet Movie's Charles Durning as Lew, Jon Robin Baitz as Yates Jr., Ellen Greene as Elaine Lieberman, Joe Grifasi as Manny Feldstein, Pete Hamill as Frank Burroughs and Anna Maria Horsford as Evelyn. Pfeiffer makes a convincing single mother who is forced into having to look after her often bratty child, Clooney is likable as the single father who ha a similar situation with his sweet daughter, Whitman is nice as the little girl, and I agree that Linz is a little less cute with his needy nature. For this theme of film, this actually works not just for the reasonable laughs and alright enough love story, but it is also a convincing portrait of the life of single parents, I will admit it could have had a more layered script, but it is an interesting enough romantic comedy. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Song for "For The First Time" (also nominated the Golden Globe). Worth watching!