Make-Out With Violence
Staff Favorite / 2008
Screened Monday, October 12, 2009Synopsis
Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education, Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his bestselling novel. After one day together—July 15th, 1988, their college 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 realize 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.
