Just One Night (2000)

This movie (if you can call it that: where's the plot, the drama, the suspense, the COMEDY for goodness sake?!) is the worst piece of dreck I have seen in lord knows how long. Does this guy think he is profound? All the idiot references to time and space? This is like a paint by numbers diagram of a four year old's take on philosophy ... only done with dull grey paint... on tracing paper! Blathering on ... the actors are disconnected and uninvolved. The direction is oppressive and just moronic. This is not a movie. Cucinotta tries, but at least her previous directors had the horse sense to get her naked to some degree. Hutton is a bore. Seymour Cassel is wasted. Udo Kier is entirely miscast (and can't act). Natalie Shaw likewise can't act (she too should take off her clothes ... though I doubt it would help, her acting is so bad (though I am available for a date ... if she doesn't talk and does what I say!)). And was that Michael O'Keefe or Don Novello doing the bad Kevin Spacey imitation?! Alan Jacobs should go bring his prosaic overwrought approach to some career more suitable ... like ... like ... oh lord ... I don't want to insult anyone (else)! He should just stop directing. This movie doesn't even show a little creative soul. It's pretentiously vacant. Can you rate a "film" with negative numbers ... for sucking away your spirit and time? Argh!

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!

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.

"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.