Only You
by Norman Jewison
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Actor: Bonnie Hunt, Fisher Stevens, Joaquim de Almeida, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr.Director: Norman Jewison
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-15
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Columbia TriStar
DVD Reviews of Only You
DVD Review: Robert Downey love story
Summary: 4 Stars
Marisa is hung up on something told to her during her childhood and can't let go of it even when the right guy is right in front of her.DVD Review: Fun, Flirtatious & Romantic
Summary: 5 Stars
A Great movie for the true romantic! The characters are so well cast & Marisa Tormei and Robert Downey Jr are absolutely adorable!! I just love the story-line! It's fun and makes you feel like falling in love again!DVD Review: Only U
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is by far one of my favorites not matter when it was filmed. I definitely recommend this one. DVD Review: Must See Romance!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't seen this movie, you absolutely have to! I could never find it at stores locally and was dying to replace the VHS I got rid of. This is Robert Downey Jr. at his most charming. It's a beautiful combination of Italy and Romance! I don't know what else to say because the movie speaks for itself. Just buy it, you won't regret it. Long Live Love!!!DVD Review: Ha! What kind of an excuse is that?
Summary: 3 Stars
Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. sounds like the formula for a really great movie, but alas, it is not so great. I enjoyed watching the two of them, but I watched them with pity for having to be in such a lame excuse for a movie.
Faith (Marisa Tomei) is convinced that the man she will fall in love with and marry is named Damon Bradley because first it surfaced on a Ouiji Board, and later, a Coney Island fortune teller told her the same name. She is going to marry a podiatrist who gives her a big diamond engagement ring, but other than that, is not very romantic. One day while at his place she is trying on the wedding dress that the podiatrist's mother wants her to wear. It looks good, if a little old fashioned. Faith answers his phone and takes a message from a friend of his. When he says he is Damon Bradley and he is going to Venice, Italy, she rushes to the airport in her wedding dress to try and find him, but she has just missed him.
She decides to fly to Italy to find him. She calls her sister-in-law and tells her to pack her bags and meet her at the airport, but when she gets there she decides to go with her. Her sister-in-law is convinced her husband is having an affair, though there is no evidence whatsoever. He does take her for granted and is rude, but he isn't having an affair, just for the record.
They arrive in Venice, but keep missing the elusive Damon Bradley. They follow his trail to Rome, and almost catch up with him in a restaurant. She chases after him on the streets of Rome, and has a Cinderella moment when her red high heeled shoe gets stuck in the cobblestones. Who should find it but Robert Downey Jr., who turns out to be Damon Bradley. Or is he?
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Faith: How could you do this to me?
Peter: Because I'm in love with you!
Faith: Ha! What kind of an excuse is that?
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I can suspend my disbelief when it's called for, but this film was asking too much. Marisa is supposed to be a school teacher, which came in handy when Robert Downey Jr. refered to a poem he thought was by Goethe that she was able to quote, and corrected his assumption, since the poem was by Rilke. But the scenes of her teaching were terrible. She was some kind of air head teacher with syrupy ideas about romance and literature, I just didn't buy it, and even in the rarified atmosphere of high school academia, a teacher like her wouldn't last one second. Even for someone who likes poetry, literature, and romance she was too far out there.
Later, when in Rome, she is spending lavishly, and somehow has an incredible wardrobe, that her sister-in-law was able to throw together at the last minute. The clothes were marvelous, and Marisa looked marvelous in them, but I just wasn't buying her as a schoolteacher. I wasn't buying the whole premise--that she would drop everything and fly to Venice in search of Damon Bradley.
Robert Downey Jr. was at least believable as buyer for a high class shoe store. He seemed to be a little bit too into the shoes, even, but he walked that tightrobe between total depravity and just being a fashionable and competent buyer well. Downey was top notch, but even he couldn't save this turkey. The locations in Venice, Rome, and the Italian countryside were spectacular. It even gave them a chance to pay homage to Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Still, couldn't save this movie from falling into the abyss.
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Peter: This guy, by the way, could be the biggest loser who ever walked the face of the earth. He could be a grump, a jerk, a pervert, a cynic, a man who's mind is infested with dark thoughts, he could be a criminal... he could be... truly sick.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the movie ends, and as the credits roll, you hear...
"Once in a Lifetime" by Michael Bolton!!!!! Ayhhhhhh! The horror.
MARISA TOMEI
The Wrestler (2008) .... Cassidy
War, Inc. (2008) .... Natalie Hegalhuzen
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) .... Gina Hanson
Wild Hogs (2007) .... Maggie
Factotum (2005) .... Laura
Loverboy (2005) .... Sybil [with Kevin Bacon]
"Seinfeld" .... Marisa Tomei (1 episode, 1996)
- The Cadillac (1996) TV episode .... Marisa Tomei
Four Rooms (1995) .... Margaret
Chaplin (1992) .... Mabel Normand
My Cousin Vinny (1992) .... Mona Lisa Vito
The Flamingo Kid (1984) .... Mandy
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Tropic Thunder (2008) .... Kirk Lazarus
The Incredible Hulk (2008) (uncredited) .... Tony Stark
Iron Man (Single-Disc Edition) (2008) .... Tony Stark
A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... James Barris
Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone Collection (1994) .... Wayne Gale
Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition) (1992) .... Charles Spencer Chaplin
Less Than Zero (1987) .... Julian Wells
FISHER STEVENS
Factotum (2005) .... Manny
The Pompatus of Love (1996) .... Sitcom Star
The Flamingo Kid (1984) .... Hawk Ganz
BILLY ZANE
Starving Hysterical Naked (2003)
The Believer (2001) .... Curtis Zampf
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died ( Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died ) ( I Awoke Early the Day I Died ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (1998) .... The Thief
... aka Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Titanic (1997) .... Caledon 'Cal' Hockley
Description of Only You
Faith is looking for a soulmate whose name she got from a ouija board. Instead she meets peter who is instantly smitten with her. From the adriatic to the amalfi coast her pursuit becomes a romantic adventure in the most uncharted territory of all true love. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Marisa Tomei Robert Downey Jr. Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Norman JewisonWhile director Norman Jewison's Moonstruck is a romantic cornerstone, this 1994 film is often overlooked. It's a sweet valentine about a young woman, aptly named Faith (Marisa Tomei, never cuter), who chases an unknown man to Europe because the name "Damon Bradley" was once spelled on an Ouija board as her true love. With her sister-in-law (Bonnie Hunt, whose own marriage seems to be falling apart), she travels the streets of Rome looking for Damon Bradley.
And lo and behold, she literally runs into a man claiming to be Damon. Is this meant to be? Faith certainly thinks so. Robert Downey Jr. (also never cuter) plays Damon in a role that showcases his charms. He shows his quick wit in handing Faith's advances and his absolute devotion to her when the winds change. Despite the cuteness factor, this is a movie to fall in love with. Jewison and Sven Nykvist (Ingmar Bergman's cameraman) present a sun-kissed Italy so beautiful, you might be tempted to hop a plane immediately after viewing the movie. --Doug Thomas
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