One True Thing

Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother. In 1987-88, independent Ellen Gulden (Renee Zellweger), a Harvard grad, is working on a New York Magazine ...more

This painfully honest drama about marriage, false perceptions, and personal conflicts between parents and their children is also a courageous stretch for director Carl Franklin, whose previous two films, Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) and the independent yet critically acclaimed One False Move (1991), were primarily crime dramas. Meryl Streep is an absolute shining light as Kate Gulden, the nurturing homemaker living her life with strength and humor. Renee Zellweger is intelligently cast as her ...more