One Fine Day Page #4

Synopsis: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Michael Hoffman
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
47%
PG
Year:
1996
108 min
1,054 Views


- I insist more.

You can't make any noise in the office.

I have a really important meeting. OK?

- Don't touch that.

- It's empty.

Sammy, I'm really late and I don't

need you spilling anything right now.

- Please don't do that now.

- Why not?

Because I want you

to practice being super-quiet.

OK. Now stay next to me.

Here's your dinosaur.

- You're kidding.

- Please don't give me a hard time, Evelyn.

- I'm also 20 minutes late.

- 25 minutes late.

Mr Leland, as you might expect,

is displeased.

- What are those?

- The Haskell blueprints.

- Rob Wilding got them in ahead of schedule.

- He did?

Why would you bring a child here?

Remember when Sally brought her kid here

with the poison sumac?

Mr Leland just smelled the calamine lotion

and had to leave.

He does not have poison anything. He's not

even sick. He just missed his field trip.

- I don't think so.

- Five minutes. Please?

And I would be doing this because...?

Of our sense of solidarity.

We're both women, and this is

a tough office and a tough world...

- Five minutes.

- Thank you.

Evelyn, has Miss Parker come in yet?

- Miss Parker, you're late.

- Yes, I know. I'm sorry, sir.

- You're late.

- Let me go get the model. I'll be right in.

Sammy!

Oh my God.

Let me look at it.

Oh my God.

Evelyn, would you ask

Miss Parker to come in, please?

No.

She'll be right in.

Put this in the back room for me, please.

Go, go, go.

You! Get behind the desk and stay there!

I'm sorry, sir. I forgot. The model

is still in the model shop downtown.

I'm heading there right now to...

I went by there this morning to pick it up

for this meeting, but the shop was locked.

But I promise you, you are going to

love the model, Mr Leland, sir,

and today at two the people from

Yates and Yates are going to love it too.

- I assume you're ready.

- Of course.

There's something I'd like to show you.

Evelyn, bring in the Haskell blueprint.

What an adorable little boy!

Also, check if my amoxicillin prescription

still has refills available.

- Mommy...

- That's a good idea. Let's go find your mom.

I'm very sorry, sir, but someone spilled

my coffee all over the Haskell blueprints.

Oh my God.

Do you know that every Thanksgiving

I catch strep throat?

Healthy children can give you

strep throat from other kids

without your even going near them.

My sister sets up a kids' table

in the next room, and I still get strep throat.

We're going to go find his mother, sir.

She must work in the law offices

across the hall.

I'm sure she does.

Excuse me.

- Hello?

- You a**hole!

- What?

- Get over here.

The mayor's called

a press conference at five o'clock.

While you were talkin' about pink panties,

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