One True Thing | 
 enlarge | Director: Carl Franklin
Actors: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham
Studio: 4 Front Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 9111
Format: Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165822579
ASIN: B00004D0ED
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1998
Release Date: July 4, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Based 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 got 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 received 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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 Suicidal? - You will be after watching this! November 1, 2008
Mr. Peter Austen (Europe)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Amazon recommended this film to me, & I bought it, mainly because I thought my wife would like it, on the strength of the reviews here.
It is definitely a "girlie" movie. However, I can take that.
It is also so sad that I cannot find any entertainment value in it.
The acting ability of the 3 stars only begins to shine through in the second half.
We won't be watching it a second time.
Although he reaches a different conclusion about the film, I applaud Klaus Meyer's review.
 superb acting and a powerful message:judge not just from the surface or from prejudices August 29, 2006
Klaus Meyer (Berlin, Germany)
38 out of 50 found this review helpful
What a great movie!! I was quite amazed and I do not share the previous reviewers' views that this is a girlie or weeping movie.
Here a NY girl ( Renée Zellweger) who wants to make a big career suddenly finds herself back in her hometown where a family drama unfolds: Mum ( Meryl Streep) has cancer and slowly dies. The daughter is - through emotional blackmail of her father (William Hurt) forced to take care of Mum. However,she is daddy's girl, adores the great university professor and has no real connection with her mother who she regarded as the typical, a bit stupid and uninteresting mum who just takes care of the home. But the picture suddenly changes: the adored father turns out to be a mediocre professor and writer, egoistic and most of all very, very week. Mum however keeps this family really going, keeps most of all dad going, knows all but says less, but takes care of family and friends and gets things really done. In a marvellous played scene between Mum and daughter all comes out and she gives her daughter the most important lecture of her life. And the daughter understands...Even in death Mum is the strongest of all, because she takes her own life; daughter and father/husband are too weak to do it.
On the surface one cloud argue that this is a tribute to the "housewives-mum" and their role in the family. Yes, there is this element. But I feel, most of all, it is about looking behind the façade, judging not just from the surface or from prejudices. Good message! I like that.
The acting, especially from Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger is superb.
Great Girlie Film January 15, 2006
book worm (england)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I rented this from amazon rental, and I waited ages to see it, and it was so worth the wait. The cast was excellent, although not over the top. It was a gentle retelling of events, and it had me feeling various emotions of anger, sympathy, love and sadness. I am considering buying it as it so good value to buy as well. Please all girlies out there rent this film, not one for the men though.
A real weepie April 15, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a superb film which captures how important it is to be a family. When katherine developes cancer Ellen, an ambitious New York journalist, must return home and care for her sick mother. In doing so they develop a relationship which never before existed. Meryl Streep is wonderful and Renee Zellweger is in top form in this tale of family relationship that will have you reaching for the tissues every time.
a first in the tear-jearker genre - it's not corny! April 13, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I waited so long to see this film and knew it would be a "weepie" after many viewings of the trailer, but I have to say I was presently surprised at the lack of corny cliches which could have abounded throughout this film. Rene Zellweger, the daughter who is practically forced to quit her job to return home and look after her mother who has cancer, is forced to evaluate not only her own relationship with her mother, but also that of her father/mother. The excellent script in this film, saves it from diving headfirst into the mushy squall it could have and helps it retain an intelligent and adult perspective on family relationships struggling through bad times. Well worth a look.
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