One Day (2011) on Netflix
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew share a night together after their Edinburgh graduation and agree to stay friends. Their lives are revisited each July 15 over the following twenty years.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb7.0/10181,484 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes37%
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Plot summary
It is 15 July 1988, St. Swithin's Day, and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have just finished at the University of Edinburgh. They share a night together and part as friends. He comes from a wealthy family in southern England and was privately educated; she is from a working-class family in the north. A year later he helps her move to London, where she wants to become a writer, and then travels to India. Little comes of her writing at first, and she takes a job at a Mexican restaurant, where she meets Ian, a comedian. Dexter teaches English in Paris. The story checks in on the two of them every 15 July across twenty years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Day (2011)
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- Anne Hathaway said she was clandestinely given the script, as director Lone Scherfig was not looking for any American actresses for the part. Hathaway called their meeting "the worst meeting of my life", but on leaving wrote out a list of songs for Scherfig to listen to, which led to Hathaway getting the part.
- Columnist Suzanne Moore publicly criticized Anne Hathaway's Yorkshire accent as Emma, saying on BBC Radio 4's Front Row that the accents in the film were "all over the shop" and that "sometimes she's from Scotland, sometimes she's from New York, you just can't tell."
- Filming in France took place in Dinan and Dinard, near Saint-Malo, in Brittany, where a seaside club was turned into the Café Paradis, designed to ape Greek themes.
- In 2024 Netflix screened a television series of the story, written by Nicole Taylor working with Anna Jordan, Vinay Patel and Bijan Sheibani, with Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall starring in the lead roles.
