7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Romance, Comedy, Drama • 2014 • 91 min • Adults (18+)
The One I Love (2014)
The One I Love (2014)
Overview
A married couple, fraying at the edges, take their therapist's advice and retreat to a vacation house for the weekend. What unfolds is a sci-fi-tinged relationship drama that uses a strange premise to probe questions about identity, idealization, and commitment. The Leans Traditional label follows from the film's gravitational center: saving a marriage matters here, and monogamous partnership is treated as something worth fighting for. There is no political agenda, no identity-politics scaffolding, and no critique of traditional coupling. The story is intimate and inward-looking, aimed at adults grappling with the gap between the partner they have and the partner they imagined.
Starring Cast
Mark Duplass • Elisabeth Moss • Ted Danson
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
A married couple, fraying at the edges, take their therapist's advice and retreat to a vacation house for the weekend. What unfolds is a sci-fi-tinged relationship drama that uses a strange premise to probe questions about identity, idealization, and commitment. The Leans Traditional label follows from the film's gravitational center: saving a marriage matters here, and monogamous partnership is treated as something worth fighting for. There is no political agenda, no identity-politics scaffolding, and no critique of traditional coupling. The story is intimate and inward-looking, aimed at adults grappling with the gap between the partner they have and the partner they imagined.
Starring Cast
Mark Duplass • Elisabeth Moss • Ted Danson
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film explores universal human relationship dynamics, individual identity, and the challenge of reconciling idealized partners with reality, without advocating for specific societal or political changes. Its focus on personal introspection and choice in a relationship context renders it politically neutral.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The movie features a predominantly white, heterosexual main cast without any apparent intentional race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative focuses on personal and relational dynamics, offering no explicit critique of traditional identities or strong DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: Medium
The film centers entirely on a married couple's struggle to save their relationship, portraying the effort to maintain a lifelong, monogamous partnership as a significant and worthwhile endeavor, thus leaning towards traditional values concerning marriage and commitment.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film centers on a heterosexual couple grappling with marital issues at a mysterious retreat. Its narrative, characters, and themes are exclusively focused on this dynamic, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes present within the story.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The story centers on a married couple's retreat to a mysterious estate where they encounter alternate versions of themselves, exploring relationship dynamics and self-perception. There are no plot points or character arcs related to transsexual identity.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The One I Love is an original film with characters created specifically for this production. There are no pre-existing source materials or historical figures from which characters were adapted with a different gender.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film features original characters created for its screenplay, with no prior established canonical or historical racial identities to deviate from. Therefore, no race swaps occurred.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
6.9
Critic Ratings
8.3
6.6
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