
My One & Only follows actor George Hamilton&s teenage years It&s an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s & starring Renee Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux She&s a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him & takes her two sons George (Logan Lerman) & Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband
- the only way she can imagine to support them Anne is 40-ish & attractive to men but no longer this year&s model Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh & St Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George&s dubious eyes One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her & then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business