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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.
28 February 1952, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
19 March 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
14 February 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1979, USA
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 June 1942, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]
7 September 1970, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
14 May 1926, Miami, Florida, USA
16 December 1987, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
29 February 1972, Newburgh, New York, USA
27 April 1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
June 18, 2008
Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul.
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
Streep and Hurt, two of the best gestural actors working, let the showboating tics fly fast and thick.
April 12, 2002
A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.
January 01, 2000
Franklin seems ill-suited to this cast and this material.
June 04, 2003
the movie ultimately belongs to Streep, who illuminates the extraordinary soul inside an everyday woman.
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.
December 26, 2010
Probably won't appeal to teens.
