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One True Thing (1998) 6.8
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6.8/10 from 7,041 users
Metascore: 63/100
Reviews: 109 user | 65 critic | 25 from Metacritic.com A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. Director:Carl Franklin |
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Cast
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Oliver Most
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Senator Sullivan
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Harold
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Dr. Cohen
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Clarice
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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. Written by L. Lim <penny1@es.co.nz>
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Love What You Have.Genres:
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Release Date:
18 September 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cosas que importan See more »Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,606,455 (USA) (18 September 1998)Gross:
$23,209,440 (USA) (13 November 1998)Company Credits
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The story takes place in 1988 but many of the hairstyles and automobiles are '90s style. See more »Quotes
Kate Gulden: Thank you for the world so sweet.Thank you for the food we eat.Thank you for the birds that sing.Thank you, God, for everything.See more »
One True Thing rises above its potentially schlocky material to give us a view of a family of complex relationships and flawed, real people. It opens with Rene Zeleweger discussing her mother's death with the District Attorney; sparing us the cheap cinematic shots of a "shocking" illness and death. From there it proceeds into a look at a family system, in which everyone plays by a set of unexamined rules, and uses the mother's cancer to show what happens when all the rules change.
William Hurt as the self-important father, and Meryl Streep as the Suzy Homemaker mother are both superb; nuanced and not what they appear to be. Zeleweger is seething, angry and surprised with herself. Tom Everett Scott doesn't have much to do, but he does it well.
The story is predictable, and takes at least one badly soppy turn it needn't have taken, but the performances, and the view of family as a place where anger and love are equally mixed, make it worthwhile.