My One and Only (2009) on Netflix
PG-1320091h 48mAdventureBiographyComedy
In 1953 New York, Anne Devereaux leaves her bandleader husband Danny. She takes her two sons on the road, with fifteen-year-old George at the wheel, looking for someone to support them.
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- Rotten Tomatoes68%
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Plot summary
Anne Devereaux, her bandleader husband Danny and her two sons live in New York City in 1953. George is fifteen and Robbie is a little older. Anne catches Danny in yet another affair, so she walks out and takes the boys with her. She has decided to drive across the country and find a new husband, one with enough money to keep her family in comfort, and George becomes her chauffeur. Boston and Pittsburgh come first, and there her attempts at romance fall flat while the funds she carries run low. Danny, meanwhile, is often away on tour with his band.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My One and Only (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The road trip in the film comes from stories the actor George Hamilton told producer Robert Kosberg and Merv Griffin about his own boyhood. Kosberg pitched it to screenwriter Charlie Peters, and Griffin shepherded it from script to production until his death in 2007.
