Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway play Dexter and Emma in One Day, total opposites who remain friends after one brief night spent together in college. Dex uses his charm and good looks to get a career in TV, while Emma pursues a far less glamorous but more important career. As they meet up over the years, their friendship evolves into something completely special.
Based on the bestselling novel, One Day hits theaters on August 19, 2011.
In addition to Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, the cast of the PG-13 drama includes Tom Mison, Patricia Clarkson, Romola Garai, and Rafe Spall. Ken Stott, Jodie Whittaker, Josephine de la Baume, Heida Reed, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, and Georgia King also star.
The Plot:
Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter (Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. 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, every July 15th reveals to us how “Em” and “Dex” are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through laughter and romance, heartbreak and exhilaration, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.
