If Only (2004) on Netflix
PG-1320041h 32mComedyDramaFantasy
Ian Wyndham, a London businessman, puts work before his musician girlfriend, Samantha Andrews. After a fight and a taxi crash, he wakes to the same morning, with the day to live again.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb7.0/1035,446 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
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Plot summary
Ian Wyndham lives in London with Samantha Andrews, an American violinist preparing for a graduation concert. Ian, absorbed in a company project, has a meeting on the same day and treats Samantha as his second priority. She tells him she only wants him to love her. After an argument she gets into a taxi and asks whether he is coming, and he stays on the sidewalk. The taxi is struck and Samantha dies. From the hospital Ian returns to their apartment, finds her notebook and the song she has been writing, and falls asleep holding it. He wakes to find Samantha beside him, alive, and the day he has just lived beginning again.
Cast
- Ben Ridgewayas Teenage Boy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about If Only (2004)
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- The movie made its world premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival in January 2004 but was not picked up for US distribution; it played around the world through late 2004 and 2005, and American audiences only saw it when it premiered on ABC Family on 15 January 2006.
- Hewitt performed two songs from the soundtrack: she wrote the lyrics of "Take My Heart Back" to music by Chris Canute, and co-wrote "Love Will Show You Everything" with Gil Junger, to music by Paul Englishby.
