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One True Thing
Overview
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Director and cast
- Carl Franklin Director
- Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden
- Renée Zellweger as Ellen Gulden
- William Hurt as George Gulden
- Tom Everett Scott as Brian Gulden
- Lauren Graham as Jules
- Nicky Katt as Jordan Belzer
- James Eckhouse as District Attorney
- Patrick Breen as G.A. Tweedy
- Gerrit Graham as Oliver Most
- David Byron Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Even director Carl Franklin...can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
One True Thing demonstrates that the power of simple things, the transcendent nature of the ordinary, can make for riveting filmmaking.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
It is the craftsmanship that elevates One True Thing above the level of a soaper.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Meryl Streep is an actress of such transcendent skill and sympathy that she regularly elevates her material, taking it up several notches and giving us feelings, insights, feelings and textures the original writer may have just missed expressing.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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