Just One Night (2000) Reviews

• Quirky, but interesting

  maserati-22002-05-12

  I caught the last half of this movie, but thought it was quirky enough to watch it finish... I intend on renting it to see the entirety. I especially liked the animation between major scenes, looked like painted representations of the building, or vehicle the cast were in... The female lead in this is, well, hot... hot....hot!!!!!! Poetic way to depict how two people can be drawn together for a night even though they may never see each other again... gives us a taste of that magic. I'm going to rent it, you should too!

• Adult high jinks!

  Maurice_Rodney2002-02-04

  This is a wry engaging caper about strangers (a bridegroom and a wife), on the cusp of middle age, who meet by chance, when he flies from JFK to SFO, for "Just One Night". He is a professor, in town to give a speech the next morning. His plan is to fly back to New York, immediately after the speech, in time to get married. She is looking for a means of escape from her nattily attired but thuggish husband. A lost shoe and a case of mistaken identity lead to a series of encounters with San Francisco denizens. Their very wackiness makes each short encounter all the more interesting. By the end of the story, the protagonists have rediscovered the importance of being "in the moment". I liked this movie so much, that I actually bought the DVD, a rare occurrence. The opening sequence introduces all of the main characters in the movie. However, you will not be aware of this, until you view it a second time. This movie is so good that I get more out of it, every time I see it.

• Slow starting, cute little sorta romantic comedy

  =G=2002-01-19

  "Just One Night" tells of a professor (Hutton), in San Francisco for one night before his pending nuptials, who loses a shoe and, while in search of same, hooks up with a voluptuous disgruntled Italian wife (Cucinotta) and spends the night with her wandering around bumping into quirky characters, philosophizing, etc. while looking for the shoe and falling into friendship somewhat more than platonic. This fun, light hearted and easy going little romp starts slow. Those with patience will be rewarded as the film does gather momentum and sorts itself out in a most delightful way in the end. A journeyman flick at best, "Just One Night" is pleasing, simple no-brainer entertainment-lite for bored romantics.

• what a quirky sweet sexy tale

  morgunn-22002-04-13

  The story of a New York professor who flies to San Francisco to give a lecture, jump back on a place and fly back to NYC to get married. He meets a bevy of unusual characters on his day in San Fran, including the incomprable Aurora. They spend a strange and magical night together, with serendipitous coincidences around every corner. Totally unbelievable except for the one is a billion night...Just One Night.

• A Quirky But Insightful Movie About Beautiful Love

  tabuno2019-01-17

  12 August 2012. This offbeat and quirky movie is a Lost In Translation (2003) with an evolving love comedy set in San Francisco. What makes this movie stand out is both is mundane, rather slow moving but in some ways authentic snippets of events that the two main characters as well as supporting characters find themselves in. There is a genuineness of place and of experience that one can relate to in the very normal strangeness that seems to beset our couple here. The audience gets to be a voyeuristic observer in a journey of one night where change occurs and becomes the very essence of the movie. If one is carefully engaged in this movie and open to it, one can one away transformed in a meaningful way, something most movies don't or are unable to do. Timothy Hutton performs well in a duel personality of both dispassionate scientist and befuddled everyman in an Alice in Wonderland way.