Only You -- 1994 -- PG

It had apparently been too long since I watched a chick flick, so here I am again watching this one with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey, Jr. about the same basic thing all the other chick flicks are about. I can't complain much though. All slashers have basically the same plot, too.

The story here involves a girl that at two points in her life, she has seen the name Damon Bradley pop up as the man she is going to marry. She got it once off a Ouiga board and another time from a gypsy fortune teller, so she knows that this name will be her future husband. Well, time passes and no Damon Bradley, so she ends up engaged to a podiatrist, but 10 days before the wedding, she receives a call from an old friend of her fiancee -- an old friend by the name of Damon Bradley who will be in Italy and can't make the wedding. Needless to say, she hops the first plane to Italy with her best friend (who is contemplating leaving her husband, who also happens to be our heroine's brother) to track down this mysterious Damon Bradley to know for sure whether he is or isn't the one for her.

It's a pretty formulaic construction that flows pretty well through its plot. It provides a couple of reversals here and there which help to keep it interesting, while developing the characters, so it doesn't feel like another retread with a different subject. Everything came off pretty natural so there weren't any real distractions nor were there really any contrivances to take me out of the story.

The characters were typically developed for this type of film, so we cared for the situation by the time the split occurs at the third act break leading us to hope, of course, that they come back together at the end.

These films lend themselves easily to emotionally dramatic stories, and this one follows the mold fairly closely to deliver the goods. While the plot is interesting and gives us a couple of unique reversals, it ultimately offers nothing new in the movie world of romantic comedies. So it works well for what it is, and that's an easy film to watch, follow, and enjoy.