Starring Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Chris Noth, David Koechner, and Kevin Bacon
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Directed by Richard Loncraine
My One and Only opens with a shot of a nuclear bomb exploding with Renée Zellweger's name popping up mid-explosion. That's pretty much how I feel about her career. How this woman is popular is beyond me. She is absolutely one of my least favorite actresses working today and the fact that she has an Oscar is inexcusable. She does herself no favors with this really horrendous movie.
Zellweger is Anne Deveraux who, at the beginning of the film, discovers that her husband (an awful Kevin Bacon) is cheating on her and decides to take her two sons out of NYC and travel from place to place hoping to find a new man to support her. Each man that she meets seems worse than the next and, in the end, she really doesn't learn her lesson. In one way or another (although albeit in a slightly different manner than she expected), she's still reliant on a guy to support her in the end.
But, really, this isn't a movie about Anne. It's a movie about her son, George, who we know is both smart and "different" from his superficial mom because he likes the book "The Catcher in the Rye." He just wants to be in school and learn and get smart...and his mom just wants to run around the country like a floozy, looking for a man. It turns out this flick is loosely based on the life of "actor" George Hamilton and I couldn't care less.
The only thing saving this movie from a complete failure is Logan Lerman (who was also recently in Gamer) as George. He was actually decent and he did what he could to negate Zellweger's heinous face scrunching which she equates with acting.
Zellweger is Anne Deveraux who, at the beginning of the film, discovers that her husband (an awful Kevin Bacon) is cheating on her and decides to take her two sons out of NYC and travel from place to place hoping to find a new man to support her. Each man that she meets seems worse than the next and, in the end, she really doesn't learn her lesson. In one way or another (although albeit in a slightly different manner than she expected), she's still reliant on a guy to support her in the end.
But, really, this isn't a movie about Anne. It's a movie about her son, George, who we know is both smart and "different" from his superficial mom because he likes the book "The Catcher in the Rye." He just wants to be in school and learn and get smart...and his mom just wants to run around the country like a floozy, looking for a man. It turns out this flick is loosely based on the life of "actor" George Hamilton and I couldn't care less.
The only thing saving this movie from a complete failure is Logan Lerman (who was also recently in Gamer) as George. He was actually decent and he did what he could to negate Zellweger's heinous face scrunching which she equates with acting.
The RyMickey Rating: D-
My only desire for seeing this lay in that.
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