The One I Love (film)

The One I Love is a 2014 American romantic dramedy film, directed by Charlie McDowell and starring Mark Duplass andElisabeth Moss.[4] [5]  The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2014.[6] [7]

After the film's premiere at Sundance Film Festival, RADiUS-TWC acquired the distribution rights of the film. It had a limited theatrical release on August 22, 2014 in the United States.[8] [9]



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[hide]  *1 Plot  ==Plot[ edit] == With their marriage struggling, Sophie (Elizabeth Moss) and Ethan (Mark Duplass) visit a therapist (Ted Danson). They tell of how the night they met they snuck into a stranger's pool and went swimming. They were caught and the man came out yelling. They tried to recreate the excitement of their early relationship by revisiting the house and again sneaking in to swim in the pool, but the man doesn't catch them this time. The therapist recommends they go to a cottage a few hours north for a vacation to rekindle their romance.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Reception
 * 3.1 Box office
 * 3.2 Critical response
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

On the first night, Sophie wanders out to the guest house and finds Ethan, and the two make love. Upon returning to the main house, she is bemused to find Ethan asleep on the couch. She asks him how he got there so fast and to stop trying to trick her. She tells him how they made love and he tells her now she's playing a trick. They didn't make love.

The next morning Ethan goes to the guest house and finds Sophie there and she offers to make him bacon for breakfast. This surprises Ethan because she's always telling him not to eat bacon. He leaves the guest house and finds Sophie back at the main house and the two realize that something very strange is going on. The guest house seems to possess a double of their significant other who is more accommodating and honest. They try to both go in together but find that they can't both be there experiencing this phenomenon at the same time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">They consider leaving, but decide to explore the strange phenomenon with some rules: 1) no more than 15 minutes in the guest house, 2) no intimacy with the double and 3) no spying on the other person. These rules are quickly broken and then discarded after Sophie takes longer than her allotted 15 minutes and Ethan, in turn, spies on her.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Sophie finds the guest house Ethan able to articulate his feelings and the struggles in their relationship better than the real Ethan. He is also more spontaneous and seemingly unencumbered with the tension that has grown between them.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">When Ethan enters the guest house, he is unable to connect with the guest house Sophie in the same way, because he can't lay aside his suspicions. He tries to plant his phone on record mode in the guest house so he can spy on Sophie and guest house Ethan. But when he returns later, guest house Sophie has discovered the phone and the recording is just static.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">We learn that before they started therapy, Ethan had cheated on Sophie, in a scene in which Guest house Ethan apologizes beautifully, and Sophie allows herself to make love to him, breaking the rules she had set with the real Ethan.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan becomes suspicious that Sophie has been growing more intimate with guest house Ethan. He plays a ruse where he says he's going to the store, but then drives around the corner and times it perfectly so that when Sophie enters the guest house, she believes Ethan is guest house Ethan. Ethan is comically tongue tied when Sophie gushes about how articulate guest house Ethan (who she believes she is talking to) is. They make love.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan and Sophie begin noticing strange interactions with the outside world. Some of Ethan's shirts are missing and Ethan finds messages from his friends and family that indicate that guest house Ethan somehow got ahold of his phone and was asking questions about his history.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan and Sophie become unnerved enough that Ethan asks again if they can leave, but Sophie finds she is developing feelings towards Ethan's double.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Before they can leave, they are surprised in the main house by their doubles. They implore the couple to stay, and the four end up spending the evening playing cards and talking. There is obvious tension between Ethan and his guest house double who is more charming, better at cards and who Sophie finds charming. Guest house Sophie is polite, but is not as accommodating towards Ethan.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan discovers a computer with recordings of therapy sessions. In the computer trashcan he finds a folder called "Ethan & Sophie." It has a recording where the therapist is coaching the doubles to sound like Ethan and Sophie, and the double Ethan seems to magically lower and alter his voice until it is Ethan's exactly.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Guest house Sophie pulls Ethan into a private discussion where she explains that the house has some sort of supernatural abilities. The only way the doubles can leave the house is if they find two others to be trapped. She tells Ethan this because she doesn't want his double who seems quite taken with the real Sophie to leave her. She'd rather stay stuck at the guest house with him than risk him leaving with the real Sophie.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">They go to find Sophie so they can explain to her what is going on. But before they can, guest house Sophie meets with guest house Ethan, pretending to be the real Sophie, and suggests they run away together immediately. When guest house Ethan agrees, guest house Sophie begins to cry and reveals herself.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Not wanting to be trapped any longer, guest house Ethan tries to run away from the house but crashes into an invisible wall, which knocks him out. The two Sophies run to him.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan implores Sophie that they have to get away while they can, before guest house Ethan reawakens. He looks from Sophie to Sophie. And one smiles and leaves with him.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Ethan and Sophie go to visit the therapist to try to get some answers, but find his office abandoned. Some time later, we see Sophie and Ethan at home together in bed, laughing and happy. Sophie asks Ethan if he would like bacon and eggs for breakfast, which causes Ethan to wonder if he left with guest house Sophie while real Sophie stayed. After a brief pause, he goes to eat his bacon. ==Cast<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Reception<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Box office<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The One I Love opened in a Limited release in the United States in 8 theaters and grossed $48,059 with an average of $6,007 per theater and ranking #42 at the box office. The film's widest release was 82 theaters and it ended up earning $513,447 domestically and $69,817 internationally for a total of $583,264.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[11] ===Critical response<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">The One I Love received mostly positive reviews from critics and has a "certified fresh" score of 80% on Rotten tomatoes based on 74 reviews with an average rating of 7 out of 10. The critical consensus states "The One I Love doesn't take its intriguing premise quite as far as it could, but it still adds up to an ambitious, well-acted look at love and marriage."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[12]  The film also has a score of 65 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 27 critics indicating "Generally favorable reviews."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[13]
 * Mark Duplass as Ethan
 * Elisabeth Moss as Sophie
 * Ted Danson as Therapist

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">Geoffrey Berkshire of Variety, said in his review that "Charlie McDowell makes an incredibly assured directorial debut with this smart crowd-pleaser, featuring spectacular performances from Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[14]  Kate Erbland of Film.com praised the film by saying that "(it's) A tightly constructed and cleverly designed take on the modern love story."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15]  Cory Everett of Indiewire grade the film B by saying that "It's a very small-scale, unassuming relationship movie (with a heady little twist), but it sneaks up on you."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[16]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">However, John DeFore in his review for The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film that "On a moment-to-moment basis, this smoothly made film can be incredibly trying, even annoying, to watch, due to the grueling repetitiveness of the scenes and dialogue and the claustrophobia of the paradoxically beautiful setting."