ONE FINE DAY
Director: Michael Hoffman
After Sleepless in Seattle, Neurotic in New York perhaps... The formula is a reliable one, and Michael Hoffman (of Soapdish fame) milks it well. Harassed single mom/architect Michelle Pfeiffer is pitted against brash journo George Clooney. It’s a crucial career day for both, both are lumbered with a child, an entanglement is inevitable... Although this is a fairly conventional role for Pfeiffer — a ‘freshening up’ scene to a Wizard
ofOz soundtrack is pretty far-fetched stuff — the chemistry between the two actors is so much better than the damp squib Pfeiffer and Robert Redford made of Up Close and Personal. At one stage mention is made of the 1959 Doris Day and Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk, and One Fine Day '\s certainly in this tradition. But, whereas Doris and Rock had some inspirational support from Tony Randall as the effete offsider and Thelma Ritter as the dipso housemaid, Michelle and George have to carry One Fine Day by themselves, apart from a leering Charles Durning. And, oh, what some more
acidic souls would have made of a scene in a beauty parlour! Warning: if you’ve an allergy to adult-bashing movies, stay away. At one point it’s made clear the seven-year-old Alex D Linz is so much wiser than his mum or her new man. Maybe he is. He’s already lined up for Home Alone 3
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Rip It Up, Issue 237, 1 May 1997, Page 37
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231ONE FINE DAY Rip It Up, Issue 237, 1 May 1997, Page 37
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