As most of you know, I’m a sucker for melodrama and a good romantic comedy. That’s why I’m adoring this new trailer for Anne Hathaway (BRIDE WARS) and Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE) sure to be swoon-worthy film ONE DAY. Sure they show a lot of the plot in the trailer, but who cares. It’s about the journey these characters take.
Adapted from the internationally praised bestselling novel, ONE DAY charts an extraordinary relationship. Emma (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, every July 15th reveals to us how “Em” and “Dex” are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through love and loss, heartbreak and success, hopes fulfilled and dreams shattered, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.
The film also stars the always fantastic Patricia Clarkson (EASY A), as well as Romola Garai (AS YOU LIKE IT) and Rafe Spall (SHAUN OF THE DEAD). Directed by Lone Sherfig (of the Oscar nominated AN EDUCATION) and written by the novel’s author, this film is bound to be a great birthday gift to me when it’s released on August 19.
Check out the trailer below and tell us your thoughts. Have you read the novel? Will this be a great screen adaptation?
