Jim Sturgess as Dexter Mayhew
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Written by: David Nicholls
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Patricia Clarkson, Romola Garai
Released: 08 July 2011 (US), 30 September 2011 (UK)
Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy
Filming Dates: July 2010 – ??
More: Internet Movie Database

Synopsis

After one day together – July 15th, 1988, their University graduation from the University of Edinburgh – Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground.

For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dexter and Emma through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.

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Trivia

Romola Garai filmed her scenes during the breaks she had in the shooting of The Crimson Petal and the White (2011).

On location in Scotland, Anne Hathaway exposed her bottom to Jim Sturgess to set the mood for filming the skinny dipping scene. Though doing it in such a position as to avoid being filmed by the crew, she did not anticipate the presence of several cell-phone-wielding residents of the residential complex behind her. Surprisingly, as of August 2011, this footage has not been posted on the Internet, and Hathaway says she is grateful that the residents had the “class” to refrain from doing so.

Quotes

Emma: I didn’t mean to call your dad a fascist.
Dexter: A bourgeois fascist.
Emma: Yeah, I’m sorry.

Dexter: If I could give you just one gift, do you know what it would be? Confidence. That or a scented candle.

Dexter: I’d still like to read that poetry. What rhymes with Dexter?
Emma: Prick. It’s a half rhyme.