One Day
Short description
One Day follows Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, who meet on the day of their university graduation in 1988 and spend the night together. Rather than beginning a romance, they decide to remain friends, and the film revisits them on the same date each year over the following two decades. Emma, from a working-class background and determined to make something meaningful of her life, and Dexter, a wealthy and carefree young man, drift in and out of each other's lives as their circumstances, ambitions and feelings change. Their connection survives distance, success and disappointment, and the film traces how the two of them keep returning to each other.
Lone Scherfig directed the adaptation, with David Nicholls writing the screenplay, and Nina Jacobson producing. It followed Scherfig's An Education in her filmography and preceded The Riot Club. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess lead the cast as Emma and Dexter, alongside Tom Mison, Jodie Whittaker, Rafe Spall and Patricia Clarkson. The production had a budget of 15 million dollars and took about 59 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from roughly 179,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 7.4 out of 10 from a much smaller base of about 4,620 votes. The audience scores are markedly warmer than the critics' rating of 5.1 out of 10 from 143 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Emma Morley was reading Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" on the beach.
- David Nicholls was inspired to choose the date of July 15th by Billy Bragg's song "St. Swithun's Day", which he first heard in the 80s.
- After reading one of the first drafts of the script, Anne Hathaway liked the character of Emma so much that she flew to London to explain to director Lone Scherfig why she should get the role.
- In Edinburgh, where the graduation ceremony took place, it should be light at 6 p.m., as graduations fall in July.
- The scene in which Dex and Emma swim naked is the only one in which actors Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess do not wear wigs.
- In 2000, the couple meets on the roof after Colin's wedding. In the distance, two skyscrapers are visible, one of which is the Heron Tower, but construction of this skyscraper was not completed until 2010.
- The film is based on David Nicholls' novel "One Day" (2009).
- David Nichols was inspired to choose the date of July 15th by Billy Bragg’s song “St. Swithun’s Day,” which he first heard in the 1980s.
- The film depicts the year 1994 in one scene. However, Portcullis House is visible to the right of Big Ben, even though it was only built in 2001.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
