One True Thing
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Movie Reviews of One True Thing
Movie Review: One True Thing is a one true movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Since I became very interested in Renee Zellweger, I had decided to rent this, and I thought it was such a beuatiful movie. After learning that her mother has cancer, Ellen (Zellweger) is asked by her father (William Hurt) to come back home to care for her. At first, she refuses, but finds the strength to do go home, and in the process begins to have a more loving relationship with her mother that she never really had before. I had never watched many of Meryl Streeps movies before, but just watching her playout this character who is indeed suffering a great deal made me totally upset, and like Ellen you wish so much to want to help her even if you can't. However, when I think more of it, it really is better to have loved than to have lost. And in a very beautiful way, both Ellen and her mother found that bond which will always be with them. I wish I could review more, but in a way as I write this, I am feeling a little emotional over it. There really are no other words. Except one love: love. I guess less is more.Movie Review: This movie is a treasure. Truly.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those movies you recommend to strangers because you're absolutely certain they'll love it the way you do. Watching Meryl Streep in anything is pleasurable, but watching her be the dying mother of Renee Zellweger's character is a treasure. There are moments in the movie (and the book) when you are suddenly aware there is a shift happening inside you... you have been moved in a way you seldom are, and you don't forget it. When Kate (Streep) and Ellen (Zellweger) stand together at the lighting of the Christmas trees, you shift. When Kate explains the complicity of marriage to a bitter Ellen, you shift. When Kate pleads for an end to her pain... it's just heart-wrenching. The movie is quiet, rather than in your face, and that is part of it's treasure. It's also just as good as the book - not one where you walk away wishing you'd stopped after the book. It is a wonderful movie, one you'll want to keep in your collection of gems.Movie Review: THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUL OF A REGULAR "HOUSE WIFE"
Summary: 5 Stars
If there's one actress that can get into the skin of her character, Streep is it. She effortlessly portays a regular housewife, embroidering pillows and decorating cribs one minute, and being a veritable fountain of love and understanding the next! William Hurt turns in a convincing performance too, as the aloof and careless Regular Husband, while Zellweger adds a mean punch with her rich and dynamic presence. The theme is hardly anything earth-shattering, but there's a fine line between the genuinely moving and the saccharine, and under Franklin's low-key direction "One True Thing" succeeds where many pictures fail by maintaining its dignity and, just as importantly, its honesty. You won't cry out of a sense of obligation, but because the incredible cast drive the material straight to the heart.
Highly recommended if you're in the mood for a stirring "Ordinary People" type of a drama. Keep a Kleenex handy.
Movie Review: Amazing! Meryl Streep soars!
Summary: 5 Stars
One True Thing based on the bestselling novel tells the story of a hard working & determined mother who has fallen ill with cancer (Meryl Streep). The plot is based around the discoveries her daughter makes (Renee Zellweger) about her family, and realizes that the world her family lived in so many years ago was not as happy as it seemed. The daughter has clearly favored her father over her mother for as long as she could remember, and never treated her mother fairly or appriciated anything she did for her. Zellweger's character discovers the dark secrets of her fathers sexual affairs and his massive drinking problems, and at the end of her mother's life realizes just how badly her father had treated her. The movie is very well done (unfortunatley it was greatly overlooked). The movie is ultimatley depressing, but tells an extreamly powerful story and effective in its delivery.Movie Review: "It's so much easier to be happy!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Zellweger plays the role of Ellen; a young successful woman who moves back home, leaving her career and love behind to take care of her dying mother (Streep).
Getting close to her dying mother, Ellen undergoes emotional transformation about life, family, role models, and happiness. As powerful and changing the emotional journey of the family, it is peaceful and profound for Ellen and her self discovery!
This movie is a spectacular exploration that will show how simple and easy it is to appreciate what we have and love our lives or as Streep puts it: "It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful."