One True Thing

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One True Thing

Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Nicky Katt

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 i...( read more  read more... )t 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

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  • rebvodka042099
    July 26, 2008
    rebvodka042099
    Sincere and modest. Touching and moving. With balanced share of emotions and wonderful performances.
  • dreamfaeries
    November 9, 2006
    dreamfaeries
    Pretty good and emotional.
  • Fragglefreak
    March 29, 2009
    Fragglefreak
    Renee Zellweger's best film role, made before she was a real name. Meryl Streep is also amazing as her dying mother.
  • mvasconcelosperez
    November 10, 2009
    mvasconcelosperez
    Tender,moving.really great,I cried while i watched the part where they sing a chrismas song,and how does she has the courage to take the pills,makes you reflect on yourself...
  • Basht
    September 9, 2009
    Basht
    i could have done without the invstigation
  • ruba1029
    September 1, 2009
    ruba1029
    touching story , it must be so hard to see a person you love die from cancer in front of you , knowing this would be your last time together ...
    excellent performances from both Meryl Streep & Renee Zellwegar .
    i cried in this movie but not as much as in Stepmom ...i actually ...( read more)watched this when i was mad from my dad and mom but after that i changed my feelings towards them
  • javaursula128
    July 6, 2009
    javaursula128
    You got a Harvard education, but where is your heart?
  • BarbieVenom
    June 19, 2009
    BarbieVenom
    I cried watching parts of it on youtube. Meryl has cancer !
    :(
    xx.
  • Tay0915
    April 12, 2009
    Tay0915
    absolutly wonderful , wonderful cast , lovely story , meryl streep plays a wonderful cancer women. just a powerful performance from all four of them !
  • hummo7
    March 7, 2009
    hummo7
    looks a bit old and cheap.
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