Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Better Late Then Never

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I saw this film on TV and must confess to having never heard of it before - but i cannot think why! Why wasn't this great little movie given more chance in the box office? Why wasn't it widely distributed???? It was genuinely very very funny. Not only did i find myself laughing out loud the whole way through it, but it also had great dialogue, a great story, excellent characters and a fantastic plot. All in all this was a very enjoyable and quite unexpected movie. If you get a chance - watch it! The plot surrounds two couples - one are everyday and unhappy in their relationship. The other are an Italian football star and his kept wife. Couple one adopt an African girl and couple two are trying to have a baby. But then Guy from first couple falls in love with kept wife. A great little side story involves the first guys friend who is an absolute slob who has crazy sex with some woman he happens to meet in late night supermarkets who also happens to be the sister of the footballers wife. There is far far more to it than all this thought! It is a fantastic story and a great comedy. I have to ask again...why didn't this get distributed better in the cinemas???? The distribution/production company were not doing their job!

A lovely and lively time in the lives of a number of characters centred around a great performance from Justine as the wronged Stevie who finds her soul mate at an unexpected time and place. Good humour running through what is a serious issue of finding happiness in life. Well supported throughout and well filmed in the up and coming northern England area. Neil fits kitchens and is one of the most sensitive and understanding guys you are ever likely to meet. He deserves the best and eventually gets it, but its not all plain sailing and lots of bridges have to be crossed before it all works out. The drama hospital scene gets to a pitch in which you hope it works out but doesn't look like its going to. Do yourself a favour.. watch it. It will cheer you up

As a child in the 1970s I always used to look forward to Christmas television because it was the one time of the year that TV companies were guaranteed to put on decent films . The same is still true today I guess although due to video recorders , DVDs and satellite television when a blockbuster is shown on network for the very first time the potential audience sitting at home pulling Christmas crackers has almost certainly seen the film in question . What this also means is that in the run up to Christmas television companies hold back on showing decent movies , instead they cram the schedules with crap . Crap like THE ONE AND ONLY I'd be very surprised is anyone was expecting to see a good film if they were looking at the cast list . A British film that has the likes of Patsy Kensit best known for her stint on BO SELECTA and Donna Air better known for her inane ramblings on MTV SELECT should ring a few warning bells and these instinctive feelings of approaching mediocrity are well founded The story revolves around Stevie falling in love with Neil . No it's not a gay love story - And being a British movie any perceived homophobia will result in the loss of your film career and potential criminal proceedings - and that's part of the running gag of having a couple where the female has an easily mistaken male name . YAWN . It also sums up the whole feeling of the movie of very weak gags that confuse the audience into thinking how the hell did this pass script development . Who are the producers ? Are they actual producers or are they dear friends of the screenwriters who sycophantically agreed that the script was amusing ? I know what one I'm putting my money on and I can just imagine the producers slapping their thighs laughing at the ridiculously unfunny sex scenes that have to be seen to believed I will say one good thing about THE ONE AND ONLY and that is that you won't have to drink too much Christmas sherry in order to forget about it . By tomorrow morning when I go Christmas shopping I will have no problem in not remembering this waste of celluloid

This is one of the nicest and funniest movies I have seen recently, and is one of those titles you want to see more than a one and only time. It was tucked away on the bottom shelf of a Belgium videotheque; it never reached the cinemas in Belgium, nor in the Netherlands. Hence it didn't get any attention to a broader audience; what a shame! For starters the plot is as simple as it is good and the story build around sticks to it and is credible. The film breathes a certain low budget atmosphere and there is hardly any outstanding camera work, though it delivers quite some great stills. Comparisons are made with Notting Hill. Regarding that I would say the Notting Hill film has better photography with great color but has the rather slik Hollywood like fairy tale setting, where as The One And Only is definitely much funnier, not only in dialogue, has the better soundtrack and stands, again not only regarding the more prosaic dialogue, closer to reality. As a foreigner I wasn't bothered by perhaps not so good northern accents; they sounded perfectly genuine to me. And what a heavenly lass miss Waddel is!