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One True Thing [Region 2]

starring: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham
directed by: Carl Franklin

: One True Thing [Region 2]
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5024165822579
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 160551
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1998



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Based on Anna Quindlen's bestselling novel, this is a mother-daughter and father-daughter story, two for the price of one. But director Carl Franklin also tries to inject a police-mystery angle that it neither needs nor will support. Renee Zellweger plays a young writer on the rise, who has finally gotten her break for a New York magazine. While home for a birthday party for her nearly famous writer father (William Hurt), she learns that her mother (Meryl Streep) has been diagnosed with cancer. Then her father does the unthinkable: He all but commands her to put her career on hold to take care of her mother and nurse her through her illness. Dad, a popular college professor who has never gotten the literary acclaim he always believed he deserved, essentially checks out--and daughter must play parent to her mother. Strong performances by Streep and Zellweger give this parent-child relationship the heart--and the anger--of the real thing, while Hurt seems slightly disembodied as the self-involved father whose needs have dominated both women. Still, the detective-story aspect (the film is told in flashback, as the cops try to discover whether someone slipped Mom a fatal dose of morphine) is a construct that could have been done without. --Marshall Fine



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the few Movies that relate to real life.
Great movie. I was immensely disturbed towards the end. Especially when the scene where the mother ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - a moving film that you won't soon forget...
One True Thing tells the touching and sensitive story of how a young woman (Ellen Gulden, played by ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A good one
I drag this out whenever I need a good cry. I don't know why it just hits me so hard, EVERY time. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One True Thing - great movie!
I teach a Death & Dying Class at a University and I use this film. It gives a different perspective ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One True Thing
Meryl Streep's character was real. I was not impressed with Renee Zellweger's performance at times. I saw ... Read More

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