Anne Hathaway & Jim Sturgess in the ‘One Day’ trailer: hot mess or just hot?

I’ve been calling Jim Sturgess a pillow-weeper for so long, I kind of forgot that he doesn’t just exist as a vague, watery-eyed image that speaks “One thrust and weeps into a pillow” for everyone. He’s in a new movie with Anne Hathaway called One Day, and the trailer was just recently released. Now, I read the book (by David Nicholls) several months ago after Lainey raved about it. I really, really enjoyed the book until the last 60 pages or so, but I won’t spoil the story for you. So here’s what the film is about in broad terms: Anne plays Emma (“Em”), a studious, dorky, funny English girl, and Jim plays Dexter (“Dex”), a hip, cool, English boy. They meet on their graduation day at University of Edinburgh in 1988. The book follows them for the next twenty years, year after year on the same day that they met. Here’s the trailer:

I don’t hate the trailer. Lainey does – she thinks the trailer makes the film sound like one of those interchangeable Jennifer Aniston/Katherine Heigl rom-coms. Considering that I ended up hating the book (after loving the first three quarters of it), I tend to think the trailer gives me a nice taste of what to expect. I’m not too impressed with what I heard of Anne’s accent work, but I’m impressed with how grungy and dorky Anne is looking – Em is supposed to be quite a hot mess for a number of years, so at least they’re not making her “Hollywood dorky” – which is like giving Anne a blowout, a face full of perfect makeup, and then just putting glasses on her. Anne looks truly flat-out unattractive in some of the little clips, so good for her and good for them.

As for Jim… damn, I find myself being attracted to a pillow-weeper. What is the world coming to? He looks really skuzzy-hot in parts of the trailer. YAY! Huzzah for pillow-weepers!

But still, I know what happens, so I probably won’t see this in the theater. But now I know that I’ll be renting it.

Posters & ‘One Day’ promotional images from various sources. Additional photos courtesy of WENN.