Would you like to see a young Aunt May and Tony Stark? Then you are in luck, both of them in one movie called Only You.
Its about a young woman who's destined to a marry her soul mate with the name "Damon Bradley". This destiny was made known to her when she was young by a fortune teller. Even when she had relationships, she relishes the thought that she would really meet and wed this Damon Bradley.
She was about to be married when her fiancee informed her that an old high school classmate of his, is going to Venice and his name is Damon Bradley. Even with 10 days to go for her marriage, she decides to go to Venice and meet this Damon Bradley. Tugging along her sister, both went on a road trip to find him. Just missing him in Venice, they followed Damon to Rome where he met with an American who initially told her he is Damon Bradley. They had a romantic thing that night until she finds out that he is not Damon Bradley. He is Peter Wright, who's working for a shoe company back in the US. Travelling to Italy on a buying mission, he pretended to be Damon Bradley so he can be with Faith Corvatch (played by Marisa Tomei).
Faith was so angry with Peter and she was about to go back home when her sister had a romantic thing going with an Italian guy and would like to stay longer. As sort of penance for Peter's erroneous ways, he tracked down Damon Bradley to another town in Italy and guides Faith, her sister and their new Italian friend. The Damon Bradley there was another pretender that Peter concocted to make bad on Damon Bradley, hoping that Faith would eventually like him instead. Another ruse that Faith uncovered, she is so pissed at Peter.
A romantic story that turned to be a love and hate relationship, Faith turned to liking Peter in the process. It was her pride that she was duped many times by Peter that she doesn't show her interest to him. In the final scene at the airport, when they were about to board each other's plane, the name of Damon Bradley was announced over the PA system. Both of them scramble to see who this Damon Bradley really is. Both arrived at the same time but it was Peter who spoke to Damon Bradley, who he claims in the luckiest man alive. After his brief spiel, he left Faith alone with Damon Bradley. In the end Faith realizes that she does love him and instead of boarding her plane, she decided to follow him in his plane. Happy ever after.
Now the movie is an original story about love and destiny of sorts. Following her destiny eventually lead her to another and it was a funny story all the way. Really love the acting by Robert Downey Jr. here as always and this was pre-trouble years for him. We also love Marisa Tomei and her nasal way of speaking, so cute. Although great together with great performances, we don't see a romantic connection between them. The movie is really about Faith so don't expect much with Peter. The latter came in midway into the film.
So if you want a movie about destiny and how it screws your life many times over, then watch this. An original story with different twists, so refreshing coming from a film from the 1990s.
Currently being shown in Netflix, make this one will surely make one good movie for a marathon.
