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- Film
- Only You (1994)
- Actor
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Character
- Peter Wright
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
Norman Jewison's Only You moves to the Amalfi coast for its second half, and the image everyone remembers puts four of its leads in an open convertible above the water: Marisa Tomei as Faith Corvatch, Bonnie Hunt as Kate, and Robert Downey Jr. front and center behind dark sunglasses as Peter Wright, the shoe salesman who has talked his way into Faith's chase across Italy by letting her believe he is the fated stranger named Damon Bradley. It is a 1994 romance built almost entirely out of that one lie, and the photograph is the film in miniature, sunlight and the Gulf of Salerno and four people leaning toward something just off the frame.
Look at the wrists in that frame and you find exactly one watch, and it does not belong to Downey. It rides on Bonnie Hunt's arm, draped over the car door at the right edge, a round polished case with a dark dial, no markings legible at this distance. Downey's own hands sit below the door line, out of the shot entirely, so what Peter Wright wore is a question the keeper image simply cannot answer. If there was a watch on his wrist at all, it stays unidentified.
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