One Chance

And curiosity is the only reason why I watched this movie. I knew Paul Potts like many because of his rise from the bottom of the barrel to stardom at the rhythm of Nessum Dorma.

This is movie based on real story and i think this story should be more popularized.It's about big success of an opera singer Paul Potts.

I saw the film One Chance prior to it's official USA opening, at the Aspen Film Festival, where it received enthusiastic applause and cheering from the audience. Although I am a long-time fan of its subject, British operatic tenor Paul Potts, it is not just "good if you like Paul Potts" but really, really good for anyone.

A real movie should entertain you -- with a great story line and a message that touches you with real acting that allows you to connect with the characters to make you believe them -- make you love them or hate them. It should include real cinematography, directing, editing and music that are like the ingredients of a fine gourmet meal.

Structurally speaking, ONE CHANCE follows the trajectory of just about every showbiz rags-to-riches movie you could think of. There's the skeptical father (Colm Meaney) offset by the devoted mother (Julie Walters) the best friend (Mackenzie Crook) who supports Paul (James Corden) despite evidence the contrary the dramatic reversal scene where Paul is told by Luciano Pavarotti that he will never make the grade the touching scene where Paul's wife Julie-Ann (Alexandra Roach) vows to support him through thick and thin and the climactic sequence on the talent show BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT where Paul proves himself in front of the judges including Simon Cowell (the film's Executive Producer).

Okay, I've never seen Britain's Got Talent or, indeed, any similar television programme. I'm not an opera buff (or even an opera bouffe)and I first heard the name Paul Potts earlier this year when his PR team were placing squibs in the showbiz columns of National newspapers in order to promote this film.

In order to get over the impression that Paul Potts is shy, the film ignores the seven years he spent as a politician, he was was elected the youngest member of Bristol City Council, as a Liberal Democrat, and he served until 2003. In my experience, being a politician usually involves knocking on complete strangers doors in order to ask them to vote for you, making public speeches and meeting the electorate at surgeries.

Paul Potts (James Corden) has always sang opera since he was a kid and has always been bullied by the mean kids in his industrial town. He pursues his dream to Italy where he is given a devastating blow.

Paul Potts grows up in Port Talbot, Wales, ridiculed for singing opera. He turns out to have a terrific voice and this film tells his story from childhood through to winning Britain's Got Talent, encompassing his family, girlfriend/wife, assorted tribulations and, yes, his job working for Carphone Warehouse.