Monday, January 3, 2022

Only You (1994)

IMDb plot summary: As a teen, Faith was told that her destiny is a man named Damon Bradley. Years later - Faith is about to marry another man - a Damon Bradley calls to wish them all the best. Faith blows off the wedding and follows Damon to Italy.
Directed by Norman Jewison. Starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., and Bonnie Hunt.

This movie depends heavily on us liking Tomei enough as a character to be charmed by her impulsive chasing of her dream man rather than irritated by it, and that mostly worked for me, if not quite enough. The story circles around a couple times as she finds various people she thinks might be Bradley only to learn they aren't the one she's looking for, so it does get repetitive by the end, and I'm not sold on our male lead actually being a good guy rather than a manipulative creep. It's a very middle-of-the-road rom com for me.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Only You < Gas Food Lodging
Only You > Dinner at Eight
Only You > Batman: Under the Red Hood
Only You > Venom
Only You > Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Only You < Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
Only You < The Baby-Sitters Club
Only You < The Savages
Only You > Sweet Dreams
Only You < The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Only You < Hanna
Only You > Videodrome
Final spot: #1863 out of 3521, or 47%.

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