One Fine Day (1996)

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I was watching this movie mainly because I love Michelle pfieffer, shes my dream woman and one of my favorite actresses. But this movie just showed messed up lives of 2 single ultra busy parents. All they did through the entire film was run around, worried all the time, hectic beyond measure, dealing with a bunch of jerks, dealing with there kids. it just was too much. there was little to no romance except at the very end but the rest of the time pfieffer and Clooney are bitter, bickering, looking the other way all the time, talking on cell phones and it just lacked any real warmth between the 2. this isn't supposed to be frankie and johnny but it seems more like the PG13 version of that movie. perhaps some parts of it were funny, the rest of it was just a reminder of why I am glad I 1. am not a single parent 2. glad I don't live in the city with all these creeps 3. don't have to deal with all these super pressures with kids attached to the hip. everyone has'em, but it just made me kinda sad that both these people are divorced and just kinda draggin these kids around with no other parent to help them out. I mean, I understand the divorce rate is high today, but I would have rather seen a story of a divorced couple getting back together then these super busy workaholic dopes who have to drag there kids along every 2 minutes. they need both a mother and a father, not just one or the other being dragged around like rag dolls everywhere they go. Dad goes to work, mom stays home to raise the kids. this is ideally how it should be. not in this day and age apparently. this movie was in its own way showing the ridiculous stupid reality of today and was quite frankly depressing to witness. you don't get the feeling Clooney and pfieffers characters were going to be together very long after the credits role.

Let's face it. There are several times during our everyday lives when we just need to...RELAX.In other words, we just need to de-compress,to spend some free time watching a funny,optimistic movie and escape from our anxieties and our problems even for a couple of hours. Well..."One Fine Day" fulfills this target perfectly. It's a really nice film, the story is simple and funny(similar to a screwball comedy),the lines are clever and the two stars ,Pfeiffer and Clooney,are very good at their roles. More precisely,they both play two single parents who are forced,due to the fact that their kids miss the school trip,to cooperate and spend almost an entire day together in order to compromise their demanding schedule at work and the care of their children. Jack(Clooney)is a cool,charming newspaper reporter and Melanie(Pfeiffer) is a clever,dynamic and slightly neurotic architect.Of course the attraction between them is obvious from the very first moment but since they don't admit the truth to each other, they spend the entire day flirting and creating a romantic and funny battle of the sexes. Like I said, it's a really nice film, that can cheer you up. Even though it deserves an 8/10, I give it a 10/10 because I think it's unfortunately underrated. Try it and relax!!!

This movie is wonderful. Really makes my heart happy every time I see it. I first saw it when I was 12, now at I'm 25 and I enjoy it even more. The story is amazingly simple and beautiful, a bit predictable indeed, but the feeling in the movie makes your heart sing, like a beautiful spring sunny day! All four actors :) are so sweet and natural, it's almost hard for me to imagine that they act and not.. just live one .. fine day. The children are so sweet .. the parents are lovely. I love this world after seeing this movie! Some of you might think that I overreacted, but it's just wonderful!Movie for open heart people!

I loved this film! It captures perfectly the daily struggle of single parents coping imperfectly with the demands of raising their children. The background of a rainy springtime New York fit the mood perfectly.Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) opens the film dejectedly sitting at her desk writing checks to pay the many pressing bills. Her ex-husband is far more involved in his own pursuits than concern for his son. I suspect that Melanie is getting little financial support from a musician who works only intermittently. The blues really hit home when you get to the late hours and the distractions of earning a living are on temporary hold. It gets really hard not to dump on the absent spouse to preserve a child's relationship to the missing parent.Jack Taylor (George Clooney) lives in a wreck of an apartment that he has no ambition to repair. He has custody of his daughter every other weekend and he is able to get back at his ex-wife by forcing her to leave her daughter in a environment that totally offends her sense of order without being so ramshackle that she can get the courts to intervene. Lots of childish bickering between the parents accompany every custody weekend. Total realism in that scene where the daughter Maggie (Mae Whitman) is dropped off.Melanie is a woman who has been forced to become much more forceful than her nature would prefer. She has enrolled her son Sammy (Alex D. Linz) in a prestigious private school rather than the far inferior public school. That schooling demands the income of a professional woman. She must function in a competitive professional environment. She cannot afford to allow sentiment to hinder her career if she is to provide for her son. But her career is balanced on a knife edge. When Sammy and Maggie miss their school's field trip, due to Jack's cavalier attitude toward the school schedule, the children wind up complicating their parent's already hectic schedule.Jack Taylor definitely has some childlike qualities that both intrigue and annoy Melanie. These traits are what doomed her marriage and she cannot afford to fall for the same irresponsible type of man. She takes a while to realize that when the chips are down, Jack can bring considerable resources to bear on a problem. Jack adores his daughter but is ill equipped to provide a suitable home environment for a girl. Deep down, he realizes he desperately needs a good wife. This awareness makes Jack resist the allure of his coworker Celia, who would enjoy getting much closer to him.It was touching to watch the two children start to bond during their enforced togetherness at the day care center. Sammy starts to look after the welfare of Maggie when it would be easy to just consider himself. Melanie starts to apply her maternal care to Maggie as well as to her son. Jack starts to take an interest in Sammy, a boy who is desperate to have a father in his life. The bond between the parents grows in large measure from their growing attachment to each other's children.The unruly behavior of the two children was very realistic. Children in broken homes often develop such problems. A divorce impacts every aspect of a child's development.The film compresses the development of the romance into a single day. That is somewhat forced and unrealistic. Otherwise, this film is spot on and a joy to watch.