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starring: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Grahamdirected by: Carl Franklin
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783229744
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0783229747
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: August 10, 1999
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 362
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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: 
Rating:  - 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. I guess I see myself in the daughter and the appreciation that grows for her mother, who reminds me of my own who passed a few years ago. The story, characters, acting... all amazing. My absolute favorite tear-jerker of all time.
Rating: - One True Thing - great movie!
I teach a Death & Dying Class at a University and I use this film. It gives a different perspective on "suicide" and the family dynamics of a person who is dying.
Rating:  - One True Thing
Meryl Streep's character was real. I was not impressed with Renee Zellweger's performance at times. I saw too many "Bridget Jones' Diaryisms" in her facial expressions when dealing with serious issues. I would still (very much) recommend this movie. A serious role played by Meryl Streep is generally a beautiful thing to witness.
Rating: - REVIEW ON FAMILY MEMBER WITH CANCER
One True Thing THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT THE VERY REAL ANGER IN A FAMILY TRYING TO COPE WITH THE CANCER THAT A MOTHER HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH. SAD, BUT VERY POINENT , A VERY TRUE AND HEARTBREAKING STORY THAT A LOT OF FAMALIES GO THRU .
Rating: - Great Movie, Great Actors
One True Thing was released in 1998 (two years after Jerry McGuire) and stars Renee Zellweger and Meryl Streep. Renee portrays Ellen Gulden (or Ellie as her family calls her), a moxie journalist living in New York. She goes home to visit her family for the holidays and finds out her mother (Meryl) has cancer. Her father demands that she give up everything to move back home and take care of her mother. Because she adores her father and longs for his respect she does it.
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