July 15 - One Day

Today’s movie is a drama that happens on July 15.

ONE DAY                 

Emma and Dexter  meet on July 15, 1988 upon their graduation from the University of Edinburgh. After a walk to Arthur’s Seat, they agree to just be friends. The next year she moves to London, while he heads off to India. By the following year she is working at a Mexican restaurant with Ian, a part time stand up comedian. In 1991 Emma and Dexter go on holiday together. Dexter becomes a television producer and presenter. The nest year Dexter goes to see his dying mother, while Emma finally agrees to go on a date with Ian. In 1995 Dexter is getting press over his image, while Emma is unhappily living with Ian and working as a schoolteacher. After a fight with Dexter, Emma suggests they end their friendship, but says she “loves him, but doesn’t like him”.  Dexter later gets fired from his TV job and Ian, who Emma had tossed comes back into her life. In 2000 Emma and Dexter meet at a wedding where she learns he is engaged to the pregnant Sylvie and they share a brief kiss.  Dexter and Sylie marry and have a daughter, but they divorce when he learns she’s having an affair. Emma and Ian also separate and she moves to Paris and becomes an author. In 2003 Dexter visits Emma and her new boyfriend. Dexter starts to leave, but Emma chases and kisses him.  Dexter and Emma get engaged and later marry. Dexter runs a successful organic café and they unsuccessfully try to have a baby. On July 15, 2006, Emma is killed in a car-bicycle accident. Dexter is devastated by her death and a year later provokes a fight in a disco where he gets beaten up. He meets Ian who tells him Emma really loved him.  At the end Dexter takes his daughter to Arthur’s Seat for a picnic. [the entire film occurs on July 15^th]  

                       

A decent romantic drama. You know I love the concept of having everything happen on one day of the year. This movie is like a series of snapshots of moments in a twenty year relationship.

                 

The date is given in the film at 1:20 and other times as the entire movie takes place on July 15^th , just in different years.

Producer – Nina Jacobson

Director - Lone Scherfig

Screenplay – David Nicholls

Runtime – 1 hour 48 minutes

Released – August 19, 2011

Starring –

Anne Hathaway as Emma Morley

Jim Sturgess as Dexter Mayhew

Romola Garai as Sylvie

Rafe Spall as Ian                  

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.