“One Fine Day” Movie Analysis For the movie analysis this week I chose to watch the movie “One Fine Day” starring George Clooney as Jack Taylor and Michelle Pfeifer as Melanie Parker. These two single, divorced parents have one very interesting day when they must juggle helping one another in taking care of each of their children for an entire work day. Although these two leading roles play opposites, they may have met their match when it comes to love. The plot of the movie is on an extremely chaotic day, when two unwitting parents set forth a series of events. In the beginning, Jack Taylor’s ex-wife leaves for her honeymoon with her new lover and leaves their daughter Maggie for him to take care of for the week. Jack doesn’t call Melanie to tell her he has Maggie and will be taking her to school, so both Maggie and Melanie’s son Sammy end up missing their school bus for their fieldtrip. Both parents go their separate ways before running into each other at a drop off day care center. When the kids call to be picked up due to children talking about LSD and using the f-word, the two parents are forced into helping one …show more content…
“Defensiveness is a reaction that aims to protect one’s presenting self by denying responsibility” (Adler, pg. 370). Jack at one point stresses to Melanie that he did certain things like thrusting his newspaper column into her face to impress her, not to give him an excuse for forgetting to call her about his daughter. Defensiveness is defined as “the attempt to protect a presenting image a person believes is being attacked” (Adler, G-4). Melanie defends herself to Jack when she says that she isn’t a control freak, she is just a single working mother. It’s obvious in this scene that he is insinuating that he thinks she is a control freak, so she responds to defend
Seven years later all the boys are in high school. Ricky the one who wants to become a football player has a girlfriend and a baby boy. Ricky wants to become a football player because he does not want to become like his brother Doughboy, who doesn’t do anything with his life. Ricky and Doughboy are half-brothers, they have the same mother. Tre moved in with his father when he was younger so his dad can teach him to become a “man”. Tre learns life lessons from his father, there is one part in the movie where Furious, Tre’s father, says “a black man has no place in the military.” Doughboy who is Ricky’s half-brother doesn’t have any plans for his life. All he does in the movie is hang out with 3 other people on his mom’s porch drinking beer, selling drugs, carrying guns and driving around. Doughboy has been in and out of jail. Doughboy, his girlfriend
The detention Club is about a boy who wants his parents to understand him when he does something wrong. Wait let me explain so you can see his point of view. If a toddler put a fork in an outlet and you were the parent you would wrongly assume he/she were not thinking. Right? In reality he/she probably thought the fork would come to life. And obviously the parents are scared so they freak out! And they would ask the toddler “why did you do that” and then when he/she says “I don’t know” he/she has to go in the corner now and “think about what you’ve done” but e did it for a reason.
By the end of the story all three teenagers are smacked in the face with reality and have come to the conclusion they are not these dangerous characters and that life is more than partying and acting like a fool. We can all recall that time in our lives when we finally noticed that we still need our parent’s guidance and that were not really adults in the mental capacity yet.
These bad kids with leather jackets, toothpicks in their mouths, and shades at all times. Tough, scary looking boys, stereotyping what “bad” is and that they do nothing but crazy, stupid things. “Bad” is what all boys are, they are up to no good, they drink, rape, and fight. As lost as these kids are, they feel like they belong nowhere, but they find a place, a place called Greasy Lake and there they want to find an escape. Realize that Greasy Lake is not all that fun anymore, these boys pretend to be rebels to be crazy teens, keeping the stereotypes about teens alive. With that, they start to do horrible events, start fighting a stranger, raping a woman, and destroying their car. Scared and afraid they all disappear to the forest and end up
In the opening scene is shows three boys playing street hockey, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave, when two men pull up in a car posing as police officers and abduct one of the boys (Dave) he is held captive and is tortured until he escapes. The movie then shows these three individuals in present day with their families. Jimmy owns small store which he runs with his daughter Katie, Sean who is a Homicide Detective for Boston and Dave who married and has a young boy.
Many times, in society young people think they have it all under control, they have it figured out even though they don’t. During these teen phases, they try to experience many things. such as drugs, drinking, and sexual exploration and become involved in various mischievous activities. It is about the coming of adulthood. It is no longer trying to be like them, but copying one. The three friends are not as "bad" as they pretend to be. Boyle gives them an opportunity to rape, but got interrupted because they wouldn’t have done it anyways they were to scared.
The film starts with a juvenile named Ricky Baker who is brought to his final foster home in the New Zeland Bush. His Aunt and Uncle seem like very nice people although his Uncle seems stubborn, his Aunt, however, does her best to make Ricky feel comfortable. Ricky slowly grows attached to his new foster aunt and uncle and feels like he finally has a home. However, that is all cut short after the unextped passing of his foster aunt. With the Foster care coming, Ricky refuses to go and instead sets out to try and live on his own. Hec comes with and after some crazy events are on the run with Ricky in the New Zeland Wilderness. I feel like the director knew from the beginning how to make us fall in love with these two scrappy misfits and root for them as their bond continued to grow.
Chris and Doughboy, two brothers in gangs, live with a single mother. Chris is headed for an athletic scholarship and there is hope he will escape gang
The characters were typical greasers in the 1960’s-1980’s; they partied, they caused trouble, they had no conscious. As in We Real Cool these boys always looked for a good time, they thought it was cool to be bad. They went to the greasy lake to hang out; they stumbled upon what appeared to be a friend’s car rocking back and forth. The boys attempt a prank, unfortunately this isn’t their friend, and it is a random stranger whom they’ve upset. This results in a fight ultimately knocking out or killing the stranger. After the fight, the stranger’s girl is attacked by the boys resulting in attempted rape. The boys are confronted by a new car arriving in the greasy lake parking lot; the people in the new car destroy the boy’s car. During the events at the greasy lake the characters make the following bad decisions: they start a fight: potentially kill a person: attempt to gang rape a girl; this shows that the characters are not mature and are not thinking clearly. In the end the boys decide to stop partying and go home after they are tempted by drunken girls. They show that because of what they had just gone through they do not want to continue the lifestyle they have. The boys exhibit an adult decision and a life lesson that was learned the hard way. They confronted heir demons and
The premise of the movie is about 14 year old Haley Stark(Ellen Page) who is meeting up with 32 year old photographer Jeff Kohlver (Patrick Wilson). The two have been chatting online for some time and have decided to meet at a cafe. Multiple times in this scene the camera pans over to missing children signs .They sit and flirt with each other for awhile. During their conversation, Haley mentions multiple times that she is 14. Eventually the two leave to go back to Jeff 's place. when they get to jeff 's place , haley takes off her shirt and models for jeff. She make them drinks and while taking photos of haley, Jeff passes out.
After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love," the film opens with apartment tenants expressing their anger with suddenly being asked to pay rent which had previously been waived by the landlord. Collins, a former roommate of Mark's and friend to both Mark and Roger, returns from out of town and is attacked by three men and left
Anyone who has ever been a high school student can probably find some way to relate to the characters in the film. The movie revolves around 5 students who for various reasons have been sent to Saturday detention by principle Vernon. The principle asks each of the students to write a one-page paper on who they think they are. As the day progresses, we see the teens begin to bond with each other and find out about each other and themselves.
The main issue that the movie raises is the idea that being subjected to peer pressure and malicious parenting
The movie starts off with Taylor getting ready for school while talking to her best friend Samantha in a group chat. The three friends Taylor, Cheyenne, and Samantha go to school, and talk about why Taylor can't get on the website "Cliquesters" and how strict her mom is. After school, they're sitting in Taylor's room helping her sign up for the website after her mom got her a new laptop for her birthday. While exploring the website, Taylor starts to come across why her mom wanted her to stay off the website, going through many up's and down's throughout the course of being on the website. Taylor Hillridge finds herself caught in the center of attention after a shocking new post, leaving her completely lost in a drama she didn't want to be in.
Jack Smith a 17 years old teen from (Ontario, Canada) is invited to stay with his cousin Mary Loose-Doe from (Water city, N.Y). Accompanying him in his trip is his other cousin 21 year old Bill Jones, both boys are foreign to the United States and the city life as they derive from a small settlement. Mary shows the boys a good time, taking them out to party’s offering them marijuana and alcohol. The boys are later introduced to Mary’s boyfriend 21 year old Pete Poorchoice. Pete is a High school droop out and veteran of two reformatories.