Perhaps one of the best romantic drama movies the world has seen. It stars Paul Nicholls and Jennifer Love Hewitt. If Only is the love story that anyone (I know) who’d seen it cried.

If Only tells the story of a young British business man named Ian Wyndham who lives in London with his American musician girlfriend, Samantha Andrews.  Ian has been taking Sam for granted making her feel the role of someone who loves more. In a single day however, these frustrations comes boiling on Samantha where the end results to her leaving Ian in the Sidewalk, as she rides the Taxi. It was at the moment, as the cab started to drive, when another vehicle hit resulting to Sam’s death; Ian, who had witness the whole incident, went home crying as he went to bed. The next morning he woke up to find him with yesterday starting over again—Sam is alive and he is given a second chance to show her how much he loves her.

The movie was referred to me by my cousin during one of those summers I usually stay at their place. Immediately I watched, I felt, and I cried. There were only a few moments when I stopped but the tears immediately gush for every moment Ian would let Sam feel he loves her—even when they were both laughing. Come to think of it, I really look totally silly with the tears and the tissue and the scenes where they were “happy”. 

Public records search refers If Only as one of those few “movie must see”. Why few? The movie premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in January 2004. It went to play around the world during late 2004 to 2005. The US was not picked for its distribution: it was only on January 15, 2006 when the American people were given a chance to view it as it premiered on the American ABC Family Television Network.  In the UK, the movie’s television premier happened on July 28, 2009 on Hallmark.

Records search notes one of the best scenes in the movie was when Ian took Sam’s composition to the orchestra where she was playing. Ian surprised Sam as she was called from the orchestra to sing—the rest of the musicians played. Background check on the song My Love will Show you Everything reveals that it is actually one of the songs co-composed by Jennifer Love Hewitt for the soundtrack of the said film. The last song which she sang in the movie, Take my heart back, is yet another song she had given a lending hand.

It was made simple yet well. There are only a few movies produces this way and this one really is one of my favorite romantic drama movies ever.