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9. One Day

Tomatometer Rating: 36% With Starter For 10 proving David Nicholls could competently adapt his incredibly successful novels to the screen, it was only a matter of time before he tackled another. One Day came out only two years after the book, with director Lone Scherfig, hot off An Education, calling the shots. And despite both writer and director's previous praise, the reaction was tepid. The central conceit of One Day is as brilliant as it is contrived. We follow close friends Dexter and Emma over a period spanning two decades, all the way from meeting at graduation through to when they are tragically torn apart, but only catch up with them one day (aha) a year, July 15th. Many of the film's issues - the overt sentimentality, the convenience of the date and Dexter's job being unprobing look at youth TV presenters - stem from the source, but despite these handicaps it still manages to offer an entertaining, and mostly faithful, ride. Anne Hathaway is certainly not an ideal fit for Yorkshire lass Emma, but she, like Jim Sturgess as Dexter, is convincing as a circumstantially impeded star-crossed lover and the film succeeds at ageing the pair without it looking laughable (there's a first).