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One True Thing
The drama begins with a successful woman working as a writer in the New York magazine, but is followed by the difficult situation that makes her move from New York and go to her parents to take care of her mother, who is called Kate and has a cancer patient and help her in the domestic work and her father goes to work as a novelist and professor of literature, but struggling to find a place in The life of her parents.
30 January 1967, Bronx, New York, USA
7 March 1949, Buffalo, New York, USA
August 23, 1961 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
18 April 1955, USA
1979, USA
11 May 1970, South Dakota, USA
January 29, 1976 in New York City, New York, USA
December 26, 2010
Probably won't appeal to teens.
January 01, 2000
Streep and Hurt, two of the best gestural actors working, let the showboating tics fly fast and thick.
April 09, 2005
Streep, Zellweger, and Hurt are outstanding.
December 06, 2005
There's a lot of Oscar timber here...
May 11, 2001
Even director Carl Franklin...can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
June 04, 2003
the movie ultimately belongs to Streep, who illuminates the extraordinary soul inside an everyday woman.
February 14, 2001
One True Thing demonstrates that the power of simple things, the transcendent nature of the ordinary, can make for riveting filmmaking.
January 01, 2000
Franklin seems ill-suited to this cast and this material.
April 12, 2002
A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.
June 18, 2008
Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul.