Michelle Pfeifer plays Melanie Parker, a single mother juggling an inquisitive and hyperactive six year old with her career. She is too busy with her child and her job to think about a life, collapsing into bed each night only to wake up each morning totally exhausted. Sound familiar? Lots of women can probably identify with Melanie and her juggling act, since many of us manage careers and families and homes, and anything else that comes along. The life of Melanie Parker has a comforting ring of truth to it.

But women don't hold exclusive rights to a busy lifestyle. Men are juggling families and careers too. No longer do they just go to work and come home to a pleasant evening with the pipe, slippers and paper. Men take an active role in raising their families and are equal partners in the rat race of modern day living. ER's George Cluny in his big screen debut plays a divorced newspaper reporter who suddenly finds himself taking care of his daughter for the day.

So while the content of this film may not dazzle its audience, the honesty of the movie does. After I've spent the day or the week racing around like a blue tailed fly, its most relaxing to collapse in a cosy cinema to enjoy a harmless romantic comedy about two people who face the same problems we all do - just getting through the day without falling too far behind in all the things that have to be done. Most people enjoy seeing their own lives portrayed on the screen, especially the intimacy of laughing at the simple things of our daily lives.

Cluny and Pfeifer are delightful as the egotistical single parents, and their day together is a pleasure to share. There are few surprizes here, but there is real chemistry between the two stars, and the two children. There is also an equality between Cluny and Pfeifer that is refreshing. Both characters have their faults both as parents and partners, but neither characterization relies on traditional stereotyping for its humor.

The sequencing of the movie is well timed and effective. Each event is comfortably believeable, and leads to my favorite part, the conclusion of the film. Maybe its a sign that I'm getting old - but it looked like bliss to me. So overall, thereall, there is something very comforting about One Fine Day. to use a culinary metaphor this a meat and potatoes kind of movie. Nothing explodes, no aliens attack, and life as we know it is probably unchanged by this movie. It is satisfying and well made, almost in the style of the Hollywood screwball comedies. I wholeheartedly recommend it as good lighthearted entertainment.