Rolling Stone, 10/20/1994, p.156-7, "...Magical romance....Shot with shimmering grace..."
USA Today, 10/07/1994, p.10D, "...Esteemed cinematographer Sven Nykvist splashes the screen with silvery moonlit lanes, sloping seaside vistas and a sunset that bursts apart like a flaming orange..." -- 3 out of 4 stars
Chicago Sun-Times, 10/07/1994, p.41, "...ONLY YOU is the kind of lighthearted romance that's an endangered species in today's Hollywood....Tomei and Downey seem happy in their being here..."
Shot with Panavision equipment on location in Venice, Rome, Positano, and San Gimignano, Italy and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Color by Technicolor.
Music used in the film:
"Once in a Lifetime"
performed by Michael Bolton;
written by Bolton, Diane Warren,
and Walter Afanasieff
"Only You (and You Alone)"
performed by Louis Armstrong,
composed by Buck & Ande Ram
"On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
composed by Johann Strauss
"Some Enchanted Evening"
composed by Richard Rodgers
and Oscar Hammerstein II;
performed by Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin
Overture from "La Forza del Destino,"
and "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" from "La Traviata
composed by Giuseppe Verdi;
performed by Agnes Baltsa and Jose Carreras,
London Symphony Orchestra, Tallis Chamber Choir,
and Placido Domingo
"Swing City" and "Sloe Gin Fizz"
composed by Richard Iacona
"Livin' in the Streets"
composed by Kirk Whalum and Ricky Lawson;
performed by Kirk Whalum
"Hallelujah Chorus" from "The Messiah"
composed by G.F. Handel;
performed by The Toronto Symphony Orchestra
and The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1994 TriStar Pictures, Inc.
DVD Features:
Region 1 Encoding
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In this romantic comedy an engaged woman goes to Italy to find out if the man her Ouija board said she was meant for actually exists. While there she meets and falls in love with a man who claims to be the one, and she must decide whether or not to trust fate.