One True Thing
by Carl Franklin
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Actor: Lauren Graham, Meryl Streep, Ren?e Zellweger, Tom Everett Scott, William HurtDirector: Carl Franklin
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Declan Quinn
Producer: Harry J. Ufland
Producer: Jesse Beaton
Producer: Leslie Morgan
Producer: William W. Wilson III
Writer: Anna Quindlen
Writer: Karen Croner
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of One True Thing
Movie Review: Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Plot was very real. It happens to a lot of families who suffer heart wrenching problems. The storyline was promising and I have no doubt in Streep and Hurt's convincing and compelling portrayal of characters.
Renee Z., however, killed everything! Her acting was terrible that it was painful watching her in each scene that she was in (which was most of the movie).
Summary of One True Thing
An engaging often humorous story of an ambitious young journalist who returns to her family only to find that rediscovering her parents mean redefining herself in ways she never expected. Insightful inspiring and unforgettable one true thing is truly a film that touches the heart. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/27/2007 Starring: Meryl Streep William Hurt Run time: 128 minutes Rating: R Director: Carl FranklinBased 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
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