How to watch the One Day film starring Anne Hathaway from 2011

David Nicholls’s popular novel is getting the TV treatment on Netflix.

By Molly Moss

Published: Friday, 09 February 2024 at 13:59 PM

Over a decade after the Anne Hathaway-starring film adaptation of One Day was met with scathing reviews, the best-selling novel by David Nicholls is getting the TV series treatment on Netflix – and it’s landed just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Starring This is Going to Hurt’s Ambika Mod and The White Lotus’s Leo Woodall as Emma and Dexter – parts previously portrayed by Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in the film adaptation – One Day chronicles the slow-burning, two-decade-spanning relationship between the pair as they navigate the highs and lows of life.

Talking about the difficulties of adapting the much talked-about novel for the big screen, Woodall told RadioTimes.com: “We both knew it was a mountain to climb.

“But it’s such a beautiful story, and we both auditioned four or five times, so by the time we’d started filming, we were so immersed in it already. So it was a lovely new challenge.”

Dexter and Emma sat on the sand next to one another at the beach
Leo Woodall as Dexter and Ambika Mod as Emma in One Day.

Mod added: “Even before we started filming, it definitely felt like a much bigger challenge – just the scope and the breadth and the length of the series, and how much stuff we would have to do, and ageing up characters over 20 years, and the stuff they go through, definitely felt like a much bigger challenge than what I’ve done before.

“So that was exciting and terrifying in equal measure.”

With the new Netflix series now available to watch on the streamer, fans may be wondering how they can watch the 2011 movie starring Hathaway and Sturgess. Read on for your latest streaming options.

How to watch the One Day movie

The 2011 movie is available to rent or buy on various digital platforms including Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube, Rakuten TV and Microsoft Store.

Is the One Day movie available to stream on Netflix?

Yes. One Day starring Hathaway and Sturgess is available to stream on Netflix in the UK, but it’s worth noting that you can’t watch it with the ‘Basic with Ads’ subscription plan.