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ONE OF THEM DAYS

What You Need To Know:

ONE OF THEM DAYS is an action comedy about trying to get through life and all the challenges it brings. Best friends Dreux and Alyssa are thrust into misadventure by Alyssa’s irresponsible boyfriend, who spends their rent money. They then go out of their way to collect the rent money while still trying to get Dreux to a very important job interview. Along the way, they make a variety of allies while also making enemies of the local drug kingpin and a local bad woman. This leads the duo to race against the clock to solve their problems.

ONE OF THEM DAYS is mixed. The story is excellently written and performed. It also has such raw and real emotions and problems that are very relatable. There’s even a good message about self-respect and relying on your community. However, ONE OF THEM DAYS has lots of strong, gratuitous foul language, some sexual immorality, false religion and brief nudity. Finally, ONE OF THEM DAYS seems to promote violence, drugs and theft without a second thought. It’s a funny movie, but it has excessive problems overall.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong Romantic worldview overall with some overt false religion where most of the characters solve their problems and base their lives on they feel rather than what’s right and wrong, one heroine also bases her decisions on what she “deserves,” the other heroine spends a good amount of time and energy doing what “the universe” wants (this results in her doing whatever she feels is right at the time without concerns for the consequences), the two villains also have a Romantic worldview, the female villain does whatever she wants whenever she wants even to the point of stealing the lustful attention of every man, the male villain does what he wants based on money, and much of the movie shows people solving their problems in any way they can think of that benefits the themselves, but mitigated by some light moral elements where the characters learn to rely on their community in the end to come to their aid, which it does, plus one side character tries to be a good evangelist for Christianity, but he’s often used for comic relief;

Foul Language:
At least 150 obscenities (including more than 80 “f” words), one strong profanity using the name of Jesus, six GD profanities, 12 light profanities, and many “n” words;

Violence:
A heavy level of violence includes woman unleashes a snake on a woman and a man, woman gets hit by a car door, woman falls on her female roommate from a flagpole, two women get into a catfight where a third woman tries to help but doesn’t succeed, man shoots at the comic heroines and drops a guy from a building, a fire breaks out in the girls’ apartment, a side character is called the biscuit bandit, blood from a blood bank sprays all over a room and onto some people, and a building burns;

Sex:
Strong and light sexual content includes woman describes a sexual encounter in specific detail, several crude sexual references, two moments of implied sex where woman comes to talk to her female roommate who’s lying on a bed, and it’s implied she just had sex, there’s another scene where woman and a man are sharing a bed, and woman has many moments where she implies she’s a man stealer, plus one side character indicates she used to be a stripper;

Nudity:
Partial rear female nudity in one scene, woman’s breasts are partly visible under a thin shirt, two instances of upper male nudity (in one of those instances the man is wearing tight underwear with a prominent bulge), three women at different times wear only their underwear, and one woman frequently shows off her skin and at one point her bare back can be seen;

Alcohol Use:
There’s a scene where woman offers the two heroines wine and a scene at the end where the two heroines make martinis;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No tobacco use, but there are three moments where background characters are smoking and it’s implied to be marijuana; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Woman gets conned out of money by the buyer for some Air Jordan shoes, one heroine lies during the beginning of an interview but ultimately ends up telling the truth, stealing, and racist landlord treats a white woman better.

More Detail:

If you have ever experienced a day where nothing goes right, and it just seems to get progressively worse, and nothing you do seems to go the way you want, you may be able to understand the emotions occurring in ONE OF THEM DAYS. If there was another movie that could be properly comparable to this new raunchy comedy, it’s very similar to the movie DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR? While the movie is funny and well made, it’s not a movie for discerning adults.

The movie follows a young waitress in Los Angeles named Dreux Jones. Dreux is a young ambitious, driven young woman who lives in a neighborhood called the Jungle, which sadly isn’t a great neighborhood. Dreux lives with her best friend, Alyssa, who is the same age as her. Alyssa is a talented artist, with a creative free spirit and a bit of a lustful side.

The two find themselves at the beginning of the month when it’s time to pay rent. However, they have a problem. Alyssa’s “boytoy,” Keshawn, took the money and spent it on a lot of shoes as a business venture. This leaves Dreux and Alyssa needing to get the rent by 6 pm. On top of that. that Dreux has an interview at 4 pm to be a restaurant franchise owner. So, the two friends now need to somehow come up with rent and make it to Dreux’s interview all during that day.

This leads the two to try a variety of hijinks and solutions. During this time, they manage to anger the local hottie baddie, Bernice, who ends up chasing them around town, for Alyssa trying to steal her man, when in reality Keshawn is just a cheater. The two friends eventually try everything from trying to get a quick loan, which they don’t have the sufficient credit score, to donating blood, which goes terribly wrong. They do end up finding a pair of Jordans, the shoes that they manage to sell for their rent money. However, the shoes originally belonged to local gangster kingpin Lalo, who also ends up chasing them and threatening their lives.

The two girls aren’t alone however through their misadventures. Along the way, they make and contact old friends who end up helping them. This includes Mama Ruth, the local neighborhood nanny who has snacks for cheap, the local but goodhearted coot Lucky who saves them frequently, Bethany a local content creator, and Maniac, who despite his name is a very sweet and caring man, and on whom Dreux has a crush. Each of these allies assist the girls in one way or another to the point where not only are they able to make rent but are able to make their lives better. Dreux manages to realize that her self-worth goes beyond a credit score and what others think of her. Meanwhile, Alyssa learns to have some self-respect and compassion for her community.

The quality of ONE OF THEM DAYS is very good. It is such a raw and unique but relatable story about struggling through modern day troubles, including poverty, debt and self-worth. The acting and stunts are incredible, with each character having a powerful, often hilarious onscreen presence.

That said, ONE OF THEM DAYS has many concerning elements, all of which seem to stem from the movie’s Romantic worldview. The characters usually rely on their own feelings rather than what’s right and wrong. The characters are active and engaging but many times are portrayed as very stereotypical. The movie also has some false religion. For example, Alyssa believes in the universe rather than God. She also hangs crystals in her car and talks about praying to her ancestors. Also, there’s a reference to karma. However, the character of Lucky tries to be a good evangelist for Christianity, but he’s often used for comic relief.

ONE OF THEM DAYS also has an overwhelming amount of negative elements including foul language, nudity, violence, drug references, and violence. For example, the movie has at least 150 obscenities and several strong profanities. There are moments where characters both male and female will walk around their home in their underwear and certain parts of their anatomy are played for laughs and used to entice some lustful responses from the audience. The violence includes some gun violence, catfights and dangerous stunts.


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