One Fine Day (1996)

When their children miss a school field trip because they are late, an architect and single mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) and a divorced newspaper columnist (George Clooney) who has his daughter every other weekend, take shifts babysitting during the day allowing the other to honor work commitments. Directed by Michael Hoffman (SOAPDISH), this is a by the numbers romantic comedy. When the two parents start bickering, we know in the world of romcoms that they'll fall in love before the movie is over. What makes the movie entirely watchable are Pfeiffer and Clooney. They're genuine movie stars and so much more beautiful, charismatic and likable than we mortals that we bask in their screen presence and root for them even when the corny script isn't worthy of them. It's a breezy piece of whimsy that one would work awfully hard to resist. Still, if you require more meaty entertainment or (gasp) are not a fan of the leads, you just might find this saccharine and intolerable. With Charles Durning, Ellen Greene, Amanda Peet, Joe Grifasi, Holland Taylor, Alex D. Linz, Rachel York and Mae Whitman.