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.
1 June 1942, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]
20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA
27 April 1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7 March 1949, Buffalo, New York, USA
26 October 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 December 1987, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1 July 1971, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
1 June 1953, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
June 04, 2003
the movie ultimately belongs to Streep, who illuminates the extraordinary soul inside an everyday woman.
December 06, 2005
There's a lot of Oscar timber here...
January 01, 2000
Streep and Hurt, two of the best gestural actors working, let the showboating tics fly fast and thick.
June 18, 2008
Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul.
January 01, 2000
Franklin seems ill-suited to this cast and this material.
May 11, 2001
Even director Carl Franklin...can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
April 09, 2005
Streep, Zellweger, and Hurt are outstanding.
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 26, 2010
Probably won't appeal to teens.
April 12, 2002
A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.
