Devran ikiz "One Fine Day" opens with a warm atmosphere. It is raining and the camera is outside of a building, walking through the houses and showing us the people that are inside their homes. This is also how the film ends. This early scene is accompanied by Natalie Merchant's song - One Fine Day - just like the name of the film. The opening scene signals the overall mood and atmosphere of the film. Despite all the rush during its progress, "One Fine Day" is peaceful and relaxing. Just like other examples of Romantic Comedy genres, it is rich with beautiful soundtracks and manages to take this beauty one step further by getting itself an Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Song, "For the First Time" performed by Kenny Loggins. The name of the film is also inspired by 1963 song with the same name, performed by The Chiffons. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, as Melanie, and George Clooney, as Jack, "One Fine Day" has the usual clichés of the genre, but manages to make a slight difference with the amazing performances of Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman, as the kids of Melanie and Jack.Melanie is an architect and a self-disciplined independent single mother. She has her rules and tries to handle everything by herself. Jack, on the other hand, is a reporter and an easygoing single guy. After his ex-wife goes on honeymoon with her new husband, Jack remains with his daughter for a week and in their first day together, both Melanie and Jack's kids lose their school field trip because of Jack, and both parents remain with their kids in their busy schedules, and this creates a series of funny and misfortunate events for everyone involved. Even though it is obvious from the first meeting that both Melanie and Jack fall in love with each other, for the sake of the story they keep contradicting and hating each other. The director Michael Hoffman, doesn't try to prioritize these conflicts and he is using relatively smart conversations. These conversations reveal little hate, passion and love. Even from this point of view you can pretty much guess how this film is going to end.The casting is brilliant and it is a pleasure to watch these highly talented people in a romantic comedy. From supporting roles to the main characters, everyone fits in this story. Plot is not something extraordinary (if there is one) and misfortunate events are added in the story in a forced way. I mean, we are presented with two different profiles of Jack and Melanie. From the beginning, we get the idea that they are completely different, and the director concentrates on this pretty much, however, the problem-solving skills of these people do not match with their problem handling strategies. This leaves gaps within the story and damages its credibility. Other than this, both Jack and Melanie have the mandatory level of attractiveness for the leading roles, and I find the scenes where women throw themselves on Jack quite unnecessary. Everyone gets the idea that Jack is an attractive guy and has a strong character. It was meaningless to make extra efforts to stress this fact. Leaving this aside, I have especially enjoyed Michelle Pfeiffer performance. "One Fine Day" is warm and everything else is highly enjoyable. This film has only one purpose to serve, and this purpose is to make you feel good. In my opinion it manages to do that with flying colors. Imagine a rainy day in New York. I think there is nothing better than this. All the rush during the film, all the chaos, all the panic makes the film better and the ending more meaningful. Eventually under the shadow of sleepiness, late in the night, Melanie and Jack meet and they fall asleep in each other's arms while kids are watching The Wizard of Oz, and the film ends exactly as it starts, with camera rolling outside of their building witnessing once more the lives of the neighbors. How nice it is to see people minding their own business and living in a happy and peaceful way. This is not mentioned or shown anywhere in the film; however, it is not very hard to imagine this after watching "One Fine Day." It is a film of good mood and happy thoughts. If there is such thing "One Fine Day" is perfect for a rainy afternoon.

Predrag It has comedy, romance, adventure (kind of). This movie really kind of takes you on a roller coaster ride. The acting in it is brilliant. It helps that it's a great script too, though. The music is fitting to the story. I really like the point in the movie where they put in Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately, it's so fitting. The movie is great, but the soundtrack is outstanding.I wasn't sure just how it would be resolved and was happy to see that in the end family won out. This is a must see in this day and age when parents of both sexes tend to put everything else before their home commitments. The consequences of power grabs was shown in a very realistic way. I know. I've seen it close up with people I know and maybe this movie would be a good gift, subtle hint, to someone you know who could use a little push to make wiser decisions of their own. Who knows, it might just be the impetus needed to save a family from the problems that happen when career trumps home life.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

Zoheb Haider One Fine Day is a perfect example of the practical aspects of love and how it is not always about roses for gifts, heartfelt proposals or the first love of our life that is required to be happy. The story is about two single parents, played by the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer and the ever charming George Clooney. Their on screen chemistry is just fabulous to watch and the entire movie progresses on how caring about little things in life amidst all the chaos can lead to the perfect partner in the most unexpected of ways. George Clooney's chocolate voice does the trick again as his dialogs are delivered with the minimum of efforts and yet they reach very deep, specially for a lady. Michelle Pfeiffer looks very comfortable (even when playing a worked up single mother) in all her scenes and the script is decent too. The kids are cute, very cute. The ease with which the story of this movie progresses by is showcased by Mr. Clooney's gentle smile which pretty much says it all, "Don't worry..It'll come through!". The last scene of the movie and the conversation that the two leads have in that is fantastically humorous and romantic in its own ways! Excellent conversations all throughout! If you are feeling the lack of warmth in your everyday life, please watch this once. A movie for the true believers! :)

aristodeea This movie is wonderful. Really makes my heart happy every time I see it. I first saw it when I was 12, now at I'm 25 and I enjoy it even more. The story is amazingly simple and beautiful, a bit predictable indeed, but the feeling in the movie makes your heart sing, like a beautiful spring sunny day! All four actors :) are so sweet and natural, it's almost hard for me to imagine that they act and not.. just live one .. fine day. The children are so sweet .. the parents are lovely. I love this world after seeing this movie! Some of you might think that I overreacted, but it's just wonderful!Movie for open heart people!