TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

bkoganbing One Day At A Time is how Bonnie Franklin took it with her new life as a liberated woman and divorcée. This show is one of the first where women predominate and they weren't scatterbrained fools like Lucy Ricardo.Still there was a lot of humor in this show with Bonnie Franklin trying to raise a family of two daughters on more than just her divorced husband Joe Campanella. She got herself a job and was around as much as possible for her two daughters Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli.The daughters were as different as could be. Phillips was a wild child and Bertinelli a good girl. That was an interesting part of the show, that two very different personality types could be with the children. Happens in a few million families across the globe. Over 9 seasons the girls went through a few boyfriends and got married, Phillips to Michael Lembeck and Bertinelli to Boyd Gaines.Making an occasional appearance was Franklin's mother Nannette Fabray. She was an old fashioned woman, who tried very hard to understand the new feminist philosophy. The janitor of their building was Pat Harrington, Jr. who was an alpha male, but over 9 seasons kind of softened his rough edges. I remember him addressing Franklin, Fabray, and Bertinelli as each preferred, Ms. Romano, Mrs. Romano, and Miss Romano. That summed up each of their outlooks on life.A lot of humor and a realistic look at the problems of single mothers with kids is what One Day At A Time is remembered for.

raysond "One Day At A Time" is one of those great shows that came out of the 1970's that showed how far women had come in terms of equality. This was the first sitcom to show a divorced woman who moves to Indianapolis,Indiana with her two daughters to start a new life for themselves. Created by Whitney Blake along with her husband Allan Manings and executive producer Norman Lear,this was one the CBS-TV network's successful shows that had a strong running staying power of nine seasons producing 209 episodes from the groundbreaking premiere episode on December 16,1975 to the final episode of the series on May 28,1984. This was a sitcom that broke the mold in television history and it came out during the status of the women's movement and not to mention the first series to deal with divorce and more importantly its effect on the children. More important,the show was revolutionary in taking on subjects head on and dealing with those situations which basically all or some were solved within a half-hour. "One Day At A Time" is right up there with the other Norman Lear classics and like those other shows it took on relevant issues head on which was something from the likes nobody wouldn't expect when the series premiered in 1975. And it did this in grand style where a single woman can have a career,raise a family without the support of any man and can raise awareness concerning those issues affecting other women and her surrounding community. Revolutionary for its time when it premiered in late 1975 from Norman Lear,the man who brought us "All In The Family","Maude","Sanford and Son","Good Times",and "The Jeffersons".Bonnie Franklin played the red-haired divorcée Ann Romano who was the mother of two hysterical teenage daughters;the oldest daughter Julie (Mackenzie Phillips),and the youngest Barbara(Valerie Bertinelli). The apartment handyman,Schneider(Pat Harrington,Jr.)was also somewhat of a protector and sometime mentor of Ann and her girls and came to help out in times of troubles or crisis. Nanette Fabray played her mother,and Richard Masur played Ann's boyfriend after her divorce. Mary Louise-Wilson was the feisty sex symbol and Ann's next door neighbor Ginny Wrobilcki.Overall this was a groundbreaking series that not only focus on divorce,but teen issues,drug abuse,alcoholism,the dangers of unprotected sex,rape,teen pregnancy,spousal abuse,and emotional problems.One episode dealt with the oldest daughter messing around with a junkie which was an episode(and a very good one I might add)that went toe to toe with the dangers of drugs and not to mention suicide where Ann risked her life to save her daughter from a neighborhood drug pusher in the community,which was Julie's total loser of a boyfriend. When the show premiered during the 1975-1976 season,CBS aired it on Tuesday nights opposite the mini-series "Rich Man-Poor Man"(on ABC)and went up against the competition of Angie Dickinson's "Policewoman"(on NBC). However,"One Day At A Time" did very well in ratings during the first season which was on that Tuesday night line-up that CBS had which consisted of Tony Orlando's musical-variety show and M*A*S*H. During the 1979-1980 season,the network moved the show to its powerhouse Sunday night line-up which included "60 Minutes","All In The Family", "The Jeffersons","Alice",and the medical drama "Trapper John,MD". From there the show was in the top ten of the Nielsen until its final season during the 1983-1984 season,where it moved to Monday nights opposite "Newhart",and "M*A*S*H" where it ended its nine year run at CBS on May 28, 1984 after 209 episodes.

Gentsyu I just read a post about a 4-year-old remembering the first episode-it really was a great show & one of my favorites. I just wanted to comment about Mackenzie Phillips drug-use.Incidentally, I don't know if this is a "spoiler" or not, but just so I don't get "blacklisted" as it said beside the spoiler box, if you don't warn the readers, I went ahead & checked the box. Now, with Mackenzie living with her father, John & his wife, Michelle Phillips, of "The Mamas & the Papas," there was not much discipline or even early curfews for school nights, etc., I heard this straight from Michelle's lips on an interview. She said, "You know, I was pretty young, myself, I didn't know that Mackenzie really should have a regular curfew, rules, & there shouldn't be drugs lying around in every room-free for the taking-really, until I gave birth to Chynna, myself. I suddenly had all those 'mothering' instincts kick in & actually began arguing with John about Mackenzie's VERY free-rein lifestyle with him. I really feel that maybe she wouldn't have been fired for being hooked on the COCAINE-but this is eventually what led to the divorce, John just wasn't going to change-he would sit there & do drugs together with his daughter-which you may have heard Mackenzie herself say, on occasion. She did say she wasn't putting the responsibility on anyone else but herself, like, after they found out through her erratic behavior & excessive skin problems what was going on on the show's set & in her life, & they gave her a warning to get help, time off to do so, & they would write in her absence until she could come back. She DID clean up, but, living with her father, or even visiting, she was right back on it, & ultimately fired." Michelle is still close with Mackenzie & they are very active in keeping people, especially children-who don't ever have to start ANY drug under their parents' guidance & love-off of drugs. Now, I'm not saying-by any means-that Mackenzie never did heroin, I'm sure that was available-in fact, I can't think of ANY drug that may NOT have been available at John's house, except maybe some that have come along since he died, but, Mackenzies PROBLEM drug, the one she was addicted to during the course of the show was cocaine. It came out in the tabloids back when it happened, but also, Mackenzie herself has said straight-out that cocaine would have been the death of her, had she not gotten help, I think a FEW times, before she actually succeeded, & has been a wonderful wife & mother & advocate for a drug-free life ever since. I know something that you loved a lot at the age of 4, you WOULD remember, but maybe drug info is a bit less of something that would lodge in the brain in an exact manner! God Bless!

westinghouse1963 It saddens me to see how many people think that Ann Romano, played by Bonnie Franklin was such a poor actress. It may well had been Norman Lears intentions to hire a "nobody". Maybe he figured that she brought something human and real to the show that few other actresses could have. A drive to be what the show needed a strong unknown to pull off the dramatic of being a "real life" mom who was doing what women across the nation were doing by 1975 leaving their husbands and finding a better life for themselves and their kids.She made that show work and made it believable. I'm sure everyone who watches the show can think of at least one kid with a mom who was "just like her"!! I thought Ms. Franklin did an exemplary job by the way as the head of the Romano/Cooper/Royer household, and how she handled her rambunctious daughters Julie and Barbara played by Phillips and Bertinelli. Another example of her craft was the way that she portrayed how "so" many of our mothers overreacted and spun around like a crazy top when we angered them. How many slammed their fists purple because we caused them so much grief...and her little catchphrase "oh my god" wasn't all that bad considering what "most" of our 70's/80's mothers said, which was usually "much" worse and with less restraint on the severity of the tongue lashing. She also made light of her failings as well such as "depression" and just being a grown-up and a human...and how no matter how hard you try...you can and will make mistakes. And like real life mothers she did, she was forthright enough in her acting abilities to make you believe that it was real.She (Franklin) became a kind of power behind the throne and nothing really was done on the show without her tacit approval. She was noted as being responsible for the dismissal of a "filler actress" who played the Ginny Wroblicki character, due to her interference and upstaging of Ms. Romano (Franklin).It saddened most viewers that she chose to leave the series after 1983 to pursue "other" interests, but she and Bertinelli were tired and wanted to do other things...and the show had really lost half it's steam by the last season. But by no means was she a bad actress or even a poor one...who would you have chosen?