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One True Thing
1998
An investigative reporter whose sole aim in life is her career is called home to an emergency. Taking time out she leaves New York, her job and her boyfriend and moves in with her parents in Pennsylvania. Still intending to work on her recent story about a US Senator, she finds herself following a more important investigation .. Read more
| Starring | Meryl Streep, William Hurt, Renee Zellweger, Tom Everett Scott |
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| Director | Carl Franklin |
| Genres | Drama |
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One True Thing
An investigative reporter whose sole aim in life is her career is called home to an emergency. Taking time out she leaves New York, her job and her boyfriend and moves in with her parents in Pennsylvania. Still intending to work on her recent story about a US Senator, she finds herself following a more important investigation into her own family life...
| Starring | Meryl Streep, William Hurt, Renee Zellweger, Tom Everett Scott, Nicky Katt, Lauren Graham |
|---|---|
| Director | Carl Franklin |
| Studio | 4 FRONT VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2003 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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Get those hankies out for this family weepie, which earned Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination even though very few people had heard of — let alone seen — the film at the time. She's the cancer-stricken mum who is looked after by returning daughter Renee Zellweger, even though the pair have never got along. William Hurt plays Zellweger's revered father and Tom Everett Scott is her brother, but it is Streep who steals every scene and causes the tear ducts to start streaming. An assured adaptation of the Anna Quindlen novel, subtly handled by actor-turned-director Carl Franklin.
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Not quite a weepy despite its drippy score and feel-good ending, this adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel is less about... read more on Time Out
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
wot a weepy
My wife loved this, a terrific story and a good box of tissues nearby.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Bit of a tearjerker.
Meryl Streep is one of my favourite actors so I am biased! An easy to watch film with a predictable ending...............the moral behind the story is that men are pretty damn useless, but then most people know that anyway. It just took Renee a bit longer to find out, but she got there in the end.
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Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson both turned 70 last year. You would think two actors of this caliber and experience would have better things to do than peddle sentimental twaddle like this superannuated buddy movie, but apparently not. Granted, we're not likely to go to the movies to see the reality of cancer suffering (if that's what you're after, the best I can suggest is Emma Thompson in Wit and Meryl Streep in One True Thing), but this palliative from director Rob Reiner suggests dying... Read more
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