Weekend Movie Forecast: Inglourious Basterds or Passing Strange

Set in 1953, dramedy My One and Only stars Renée Zellweger, Chris Noth, and Kevin Bacon in a story about a woman who leaves her philandering band-leader husband and takes her two teen-aged sons across the country, searching for a new husband. Stephen Holden at the Times deems it "a good-natured screwball road film... My One and Only aspires to be a contemporary version of a Preston Sturges comedy. But for all its charm, this lighthearted travelogue is less an inquiry into the soul of America than an affectionate period piece set in economically leaner times, decades before communications technology revolutionized the concept of personal space. The movie conveys an older notion of the country as a land of open roads where you can thumb a ride: a place where you can still get romantically lost and found."