“One Day” seems to have an easy premise.
Based on a novel by David Nicholls, the film depicts a 20-year friendship/relationship between Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dex (Jim Sturgess), visiting them on only one July day, each year.
Except that the couple doesn’t actually meet on that day every year. And then it gets even more complex.
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Presented as an epic-scale Hollywood romance centering on a big, bumpy, beautiful relationship, “One Day” is far from a disaster, but it fails to deliver the emotion, wisdom and true verve that its rushed-along story demands.
Cliches counter the bright spots, and the mismatched leads supply little electricity in this adaptation of the British bestseller.
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Are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes blowing off the Oscars because they can’t take a joke? A British newspaper claimed the power couple is still smarting from a mocking impression of Katie that co-host Anne Hathaway did while hosting “Saturday Night Live” in November.
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Director Edward Zwick, recently in San Francisco to promote “Love & Other Drugs,” slightly balks upon trying to identify one or two characteristics common to his varied films, which range from “About Last Night” to “Glory” to “The Last Samurai” to “Blood Diamond.”
He settles on “relationships” and “ideas,” calling “Love & Other Drugs,” which opens Wednesday, a movie that challenges the current Hollywood notion of a romantic comedy.
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Perhaps there is justice in the fickle rock world after all. Judging by her stellar performance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” it’s taken U.K. diva Florence Welch a full year to finally crack the U.S. market with “Lungs,” her truly unique debut as Florence and the Machine.
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