If Only

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If Only
If Only film poster
Directed by	Gil Junger
Produced by	Jill Gilbert, Jeffrey Graup, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Written by	Christina Welsh
Starring	Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls, Tom Wilkinson, Lucy Davenport
Music by	Adrian Johnston
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	23 January 2004
Running time	92 min
Language	English
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If Only is a 2004 film directed by Gil Junger. Filming was done between November 2002 and January 2003. The movie made its world premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival in January 2004. However it was not picked up for US distribution. It went on to play around the world throughout late 2004 and 2005. American audiences were finally given a chance to see this film when it premiered on the American ABC Family television network on January 15, 2006.

1 Plot
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3 Soundtrack
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[edit] Plot

Tagline: He loved her like there wasn't a tomorrow.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After his impetuous American musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight, a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London is suddenly awakened out of the nightmare, only to realise in next couple of minutes that the nightmare is turning out to be true. Yet, as he gets a chance to relive the day all over again, he tries his best to avoid the same sequence of events from occurring; in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed. However, he soon realises that destined events go on occurring, no matter their way of occurrence and the order of events might change. So, its just one single way he can save her - by loving her as if there was no tomorrow. Love was eternal. After living a day where Ian Wyndham is the self-centered power-driven businessman who neglects his doting girlfriend, at the end of the day he finds himself in a cab where the taxi driver gives him some sound advice - show her you love her. Appreciate her. Still, a fight later ensues and his girlfriend dies in an accident that leaves him devastated. But he does get a second chance, and the next day he wakes up, with everything the same way it was the day before. Thinking he had an awful dream, he sets about his daily routine, only to realise that all the events that took place in his so-called dream, are in fact, being repeated, albeit in a different sequence. This leads to a revolutionary change in his own demeanour, where he begins to open up and show his girlfriend Samantha just how much he really does care about her. However, it is too late and the end will leave one a bit more than mystified at what the significance of the whole film was really about.