One Fine Day

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie…

• Director: * Michael Hoffman
  
• Genre:Comedy / Romance
• Runtime:109 minutes

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer: Melanie Parker
George Clooney : Jack Taylor
Mae Whitman : Maggie Taylor
Alex D. Linz : Sammy Parker
Charles Durning : Lew

Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and divorced single mother to son Sammy (Alex D. Linz); her day gets off to a bad start when she is late to drop Sammy off at school, due to the forgetfulness of fellow single parent Jack Taylor (George Clooney), a New York Daily News reporter whose daughter Maggie (Mae Whitman) is thrust into his care that morning by his ex-wife. The children arrive seconds too late to go on a school field trip, and the parents are forced to accept that, on top of their hectically busy schedules, they must work together to supervise each other’s children.

Over the course of the day, during which Melanie has to make an architectural design presentation to an important client and Jack has to find a willing source for a major scoop on the New York mayor’s mob connections, they juggle children and commitments. Sammy causes havoc at Melanie’s office by driving his toy cars across the floor, causing her to trip up and break her scale model display. In frustration, Melanie takes Sammy to a child daycare centre (which is having a ‘Superhero Day’) where she comes across Jack trying to convince Maggie to stay and behave herself. Together, they create impromptu costumes for the children, utilising Jack’s imagination and Melanie’s resourcefulness. Having only just left them to go to a meeting, Melanie panics when she receives a phone call from Sammy regarding other children and drugs, and phones Jack in desperation to ask him to pick them both up. He agrees on the condition that she take them at 3:15 while he chases down a potential source. While in Melanie’s care, Maggie goes missing, causing Melanie to break down in despair at the police station. She files a missing child report and goes to a mayoral press conference, at which she knows Jack will be. Jack, meanwhile, is notified by the police that Maggie has been found, and makes it to the press conference just in time – thanks to Melanie’s stalling attempts. He confronts the mayor with his scoop.

Having been largely antagonistic towards each other up to this point, Melanie and Jack begin to get along, working together to get both Sammy and Maggie to a soccer game that afternoon. Melanie, however, insists that she will have time to stop off at her presentation to the new clients, despite Jack protesting that it will make them late for the game. Melanie arrives at the meeting and begins her pitch, but upon seeing Sammy goofing around outside the window in high spirits, she has a moment of clarity and realises that she cares more about her son than her job. Bravely insisting that she must leave immediately and be with her son, she fully expects to be fired, yet the clients are impressed with her passion and state that they like her. Read more

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