One Fine Day (film)

One Fine Day
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Directed by	Michael Hoffman
Produced by	Lynda Obst
Written by	Terrel Seltzer Ellen Simon
Starring	Michelle Pfeiffer George Clooney Mae Whitman Charles Durning
Music by	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Oliver Stapleton
Edited by	Garth Craven
Production company	Lynda Obst Productions Via Rosa Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 20, 1996 (1996-12-20)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$97,529,550

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One Fine Day is a 1996 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney as two single working parents, with Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman as their children. The title comes from the 1963 song "One Fine Day" by The Chiffons.

Michelle Pfeiffer served as an executive producer on this film, which was made in association with her company Via Rosa Productions.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("For the First Time").

Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and divorced single mother to son, Sammy (Alex D. Linz). Her day gets off to a bad start when she is late to drop him off at school, due to the forgetfulness of fellow single parent Jack Taylor (George Clooney), a New York Daily News reporter whose daughter, Maggie (Mae Whitman), is thrust into his care that morning by his ex-wife. The children arrive just a moment too late to go on a school field trip (a Circle Line boat cruise). Their parents are forced to accept that, on top of hectically busy schedules, they must work together that day to supervise each other's child. In their confusion of sharing a taxi, they accidentally switch cellphones, causing each of them, all morning, to receive calls intended for the other one, which they then have to relay to the right person.

Melanie must make an architectural design presentation to an important client. Jack has to find a source for a scoop on the New York mayor's mob connections. Sammy causes havoc at Melanie's office with toy cars, causing her to trip and break her scale model display. In frustration, Melanie takes Sammy to a daycare center (which is having a "Superhero Day"), where she coincidentally comes across Jack trying to convince Maggie to stay and behave herself. They create impromptu costumes for the children, utilizing his imagination and her resourcefulness. She takes her model to a shop to get quickly repaired. Having left for a meeting, Melanie panics when she receives a phone call from Sammy about another child having a psychedelic drug. She phones Jack in desperation and asks him to pick up both kids. He agrees, on the condition that she take over their care at 3:15 while he chases down a potential news source.