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ONE OF THEM DAYS

US, 2025, 97 minutes, Colour.

Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Cambell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Gabrielle Dennis, Janelle James, Amin Joseph, Joshua David Neal, Aziza Scott, Maude Apatow.

Directed by Laurence Lamont.

Week review: One of Then Movies. LA, loud. The hood, louder. All kinds of farcical situations, loudest.

This is the story of two friends, one who is successful in a diner and wanting to apply for managing a franchise. The other is an artist, talented, fairly irresponsible, absolutely erratic in her behaviour.

Most of the characters are in their 30s, the focus on women, some talented, some scattered, some fears. And it would seem that the target audience is the same women in their 30s. There are quite a number of men in the cast but so many of them are the subject of comedy, even ridicule.

And, except true character played by Maude Patel, all the characters and their situations are African-American.

Eccentric situation after’s eccentric situation is piled on the other, issues of not paying rent, being evicted, time pressures, issues of money being stolen, getting appear of train issues to sell them online to get the money, personal clashes and fights, suspicious characters, sympathetic characters at the interview for the job, jokes like a thief racing through every time there is a self-serve driving at a diner, all depending on one’s sense of humour.

But, despite everything, the chaotic scene at a blood bank, blood everywhere, there is a happy solution – actually occasioned by the white woman character.

And finally, Hollywood style after all the chaos, one of them happy endings!

(According to the IMDb, many of the target audience than the film very funny, hilarious. But, the question of whether the film would travel outside the good in LA, in other American cities – or beyond.)