Night 11 of the 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Giveaway

Welcome to night 11 of the 5th annual 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Giveaway. Stop by the main Giveaway Post and enter to win a $200 Prize Pack full of decadent treats from 8 fabulous shops! Tonight we have the next movie in the Valentine Movie Marathon. Follow along daily for extra entries and the chance for a bonus 20 entries at the end of the giveaway. Test your movie knowledge and play the Guess the Movie game for even more entries. Enjoy and have fun!

All My Love Necklace

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14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon
Follow along with us for 2 weeks full of classic and modern love story movies. Each day there will be a review of the next movie in the marathon. Leave a comment on the post, with your opinion of the movie, and you can receive 1 entry in the giveaway. Each day you comment you can receive 1 entry. You will find the daily entries on the Rafflecopter on the main Giveaway Post.
*You may start following the marathon at any time and comment on past posts to catch up.

Comment on all 14 movies and you can receive a bonus 20 entries. On the last day of the giveaway you will find the magic phrase to unlock the bonus entries on the Rafflecopter.
*You must comment on each movie to qualify for the bonus 20 entries.

Guess the Movie Game
Each day there will be a clue to the next night's movie. Leave your guess on the Rafflecopter widget, on the main Giveaway Post, for 1 entry in the giveaway.
*Guesses must be posted the same day as their clue to receive the 1 entry.
*The Rafflecopter widget will reset to a new day 24 hours after you left your last guess.
*Please do not post guesses anywhere else on the blog or they will be deleted and not count.

Tonight's Clue ~ A tall tale tells the story of a great love.


Night 11 ~ One Day

Tagline - Twenty years. Two people.


Directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education and The Riot Club) and released on August 19, 2011 by Focus Features (Rated PG-13). After one awkward night after graduation, Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) spend the next twenty years of their lives fighting the inevitable. 

One Day takes us on the journey of Emma and Dexter. Two people who meet briefly one night but end up making a lasting friendship that ultimately turns to love. It is interesting to watch a story where our character are not instantly in a relationship. Instead a story of a long lasting bond that has more than it's fair share of bumps along the way. While their story may not always be the happiest it will leave you with that great feeling that reminds you that real love does exist. Even if it might make you cry a bit in the process.

This movie is based on a novel by David Nicholls. I have not heard too many people who like the novel that are happy with the movie. This is nothing new. Though it is suppose to be a pretty faithful adaptation. I personally have never read the book and I really liked the movie.

One Day is currently available to stream on Netflix and is available to stream and rent on most DVD services.


Take a look at the original trailer.



Some trivia about the movie.
1. The scene where Dex and Emma go skinny-dipping is the only scene in the film where Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess were not wearing wigs.
2. There were some conversations about why cast an American actress to play Dexter's English mother but Lone Scherfig really liked the sense of experience, worldliness and flirtatiousness that Patricia Clarkson brought to the part.
3. Dexter's father mentions Silent Witness is coming up on the television. Ken Stott, who plays Dexter's father, appeared in Silent Witness (1996).
4. Anne Hathaway was clandestinely given the script as director Lone Scherfig wasn't looking at any American actresses for the part of Emma. Hathaway flew to London for a meeting with Scherfig which she described as "the worst meeting of my life.. I was just inarticulate". However, on leaving the director, she handed her a list of songs that she felt represented how she would interpret the character. It was this list that landed her the part.