ONE DAY
Year: 2011
USA: Focus Features
UK: Universal Pictures International (UK)
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai, Rafe Spall, Jodie Whittaker, Josephine de La Baume, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Heida Reed, Georgia King
Director: Lone Scherfig
Country: USA
USA & UK: 108 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity, language, some violence and substance abuse
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references & violence, & one use of strong language
USA Release Date: 19 August 2011
UK Release Date: 24 August 2011
Synopsis
"Twenty years. Two people."
Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of AN EDUCATION, Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture ONE DAY is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day.
After one day together on 15 July 1988, their university graduation, Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess - ACROSS THE UNIVERSE) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. 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, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realise that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.