She's the One

For other uses, see She's the One (disambiguation).

She's the One
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Edward Burns
Produced by	Edward Burns Ted Hope James Schamus Robert Redford
Written by	Edward Burns
Starring	Edward Burns Jennifer Aniston Cameron Diaz Mike McGlone John Mahoney
Music by	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Cinematography	Frank Prinzi
Editing by	Susan Graef
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date(s)	August 23, 1996
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3.5 million
Box office	$13,795,053

She's the One is a 1996 comedy-drama film, and the second feature film to be written and directed by New York actor and director Edward Burns. It stars Burns, Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz, and is one of Tom Petty's few movie soundtracks.

Plot

The film tells the story of Irish-Catholic Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Edward Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone) and the tribulations of love, family and betrayal. Mickey is a New York City cab driver, unhappy over an act of infidelity by Heather (Cameron Diaz), his ex-fiancée. Francis is a Wall Street stock investor, who unknown to his wife, Renee (Jennifer Aniston), is having an affair.

While driving his cab Mickey picks up Hope (Maxine Bahns), a girl with whom he becomes infatuated and impulsively marries that same week. This causes consternation for his brother, largely because he was not asked to be best man at the wedding. Mickey moves in with Hope, but later becomes disillusioned with aspects of their lifestyle, including frequent power cuts in their ramshackle apartment. Francis is also having problems in his marriage. He is concerned that he is being unfair to Heather, his mistress, the very same woman Mickey left, by continuing to stay with Renee. Renee's family suggest the problem may be that he is gay, so she has Mickey and their father Frank (John Mahoney) confront him about it. He denies being gay, but admits to being unfaithful.

Meanwhile, Francis' arrogance leads him to take potshots at his brother for the apparent lack of forward progression in his life with his wife, while Francis argues with Heather about her own sexual infidelity with a much older man referred to as "Papa". One day, Mickey picks up Heather in his cab and goes up to her apartment to retrieve a television that belonged to him during their relationship. Heather responds by demanding Mickey's watch, which she purchased as a gift. Mickey relents, which she implies she wants more from him, but he does not reciprocate, instead reminds her of her affair, and her previous profession. Throughout all this their father offers advice to both sons. Then Frank learns during a fishing trip with the church's pastor that his supposedly highly religious wife hasn't been to Mass in months.

On a visit to his mistress's apartment Francis learns that Mickey and Heather have recently met. Francis makes an unexpected visit to his brother's apartment and questions Mickey about his visit with Heather. They get into an argument over whether or not Mickey had sex with Heather. Later, Mickey discovers that she is the woman Francis has been having an affair with. The revelation escalates to an argument in their parents' home, during a birthday dinner for their father. In an attempt to settle the dispute, Frank takes both Francis and Mickey outside and ties boxing gloves on each, with the intent of having them fight out their differences. Mickey proves the victor.

Eventually, Francis confronts Renee and files for divorce, in order to marry Heather. When Mickey finds out about the impending marriage, he informs Francis that Heather was once a prostitute. This causes Francis to get cold feet and angers Heather. She tells Mickey that she thought that he didn't have a problem with her prior choice of employment, and Mickey says that he doesn't, but Francis may, and that he has a right to know.

Meanwhile, Hope has already dropped a bomb on Mickey: she is moving to Paris very soon. On a visit to the bar where Hope works, Mickey discovers that Connie (Leslie Mann), one of Hope's co-workers, claims to have had a special relationship with Hope before the marriage. Later Hope tells Mickey she is unsure if he should come to Paris after all, and their relationship appears to be about to break up. Due to Francis' indecision over marriage in light of the news that Heather was a prostitute, Heather decides to marry "Papa", the older man she has been seeing. When Francis threatens to tell Papa that Heather was a prostitute, Heather tells Francis that Papa was "her best customer". He then calls Renee in hopes of getting back together with her. But she is already in another relationship with Scott Sherman, a mutual acquaintance whom Francis had made fun of in an earlier scene.

In the final scenes of the film, Mickey, Francis and their father Frank prepare to go fishing, only Mickey decides it would be better if he tried to have one last talk with Hope before she leaves America. Only their father has arranged a surprise guest - Hope. The movie ends with Hope asking to drive the boat, but Frank, aware that women are rarely allowed on-board, says it is too soon for that.

Cast

• Edward Burns as Mickey Fitzpatrick
• Jennifer Aniston as Renee Fitzpatrick
• Cameron Diaz as Heather Davis
• Mike McGlone as Francis 'Franny' Fitzpatrick
• John Mahoney as Mr. Fitzpatrick
• Maxine Bahns as Hope Fitzpatrick
• Leslie Mann as Connie
• Amanda Peet as Molly
• Frank Vincent as Ron
• Anita Gillette as Carol
• Malachy McCourt as Tom
• Robert Weil as Mr. DeLuca

Music

The music for the film was composed by singer Tom Petty, and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The accompanying soundtrack album leaves out most of the instrumental music featured in the film, and includes a number of songs that are not in the film, or are only heard playing dimly in the background. Singles released from the soundtrack included a version of the song "Walls" (featuring Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham), "Climb that Hill" and a song written by Lucinda Williams, "Change the Locks". The album also included a cover of "Asshole", a song by Beck.

External links

• She's the One at the Internet Movie Database
• She's the One at AllRovi
• She's the One at Box Office Mojo
• She's the One at Rotten Tomatoes