One True Thing
When a tough New Yorker's mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother and father and her life along the way.
27 November 1949, New York City, New York, USA
10 February 1974, Loring Air Force, Maine, USA
June 27, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
25 April 1969, Katy, Texas, USA
1993
11 May 1970, South Dakota, USA
14 May 1926, Miami, Florida, USA
1 July 1971, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA
1 June 1953, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
January 29, 1976 in New York City, New York, USA
1979, USA
14 February 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 09, 2005
Streep, Zellweger, and Hurt are outstanding.
May 11, 2001
Even director Carl Franklin...can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
December 26, 2010
Probably won't appeal to teens.
June 04, 2003
the movie ultimately belongs to Streep, who illuminates the extraordinary soul inside an everyday woman.
June 18, 2008
Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul.
April 12, 2002
A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.
February 14, 2001
One True Thing demonstrates that the power of simple things, the transcendent nature of the ordinary, can make for riveting filmmaking.
December 06, 2005
There's a lot of Oscar timber here...
January 01, 2000
Franklin seems ill-suited to this cast and this material.
January 01, 2000
Streep and Hurt, two of the best gestural actors working, let the showboating tics fly fast and thick.
