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Release Date: 1998

Cast: David Byron, Gerrit Graham, Renée Zellweger, Meryl Streep, James Eckhouse, Tom Everett Scott, Lizbeth MacKay, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt, Mary Catherine Wright, Diana Canova, Michele Shay ...MORE

Cast: David Byron, Gerrit Graham, Renée Zellweger, Meryl Streep, James Eckhouse, Tom Everett Scott, Lizbeth MacKay, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt, Mary Catherine Wright, Diana Canova, Michele Shay, Sloane Shelton, William Hurt, Patrick Breen, Stephen Peabody ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Family Drama, Film adaptation

One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen. The movie stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott. Bette Midler sings the lead song, "My One True Friend", over the end credits. The track was first released on Midler's 1998 album Bathhouse Betty. It was shot in Morristown, NJ, Maplewood, NJ, as well as in Princeton University. Ellen Gulden has a high... MORE

One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen. The movie stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott. Bette Midler sings the lead song, "My One True Friend", over the end credits. The track was first released on Midler's 1998 album Bathhouse Betty. It was shot in Morristown, NJ, Maplewood, NJ, as well as in Princeton University. Ellen Gulden has a high pressure job writing for New York magazine. As the movie begins, she is visiting her family home for her father's surprise birthday party. It becomes obvious that she deeply admires her father, George, a once-celebrated novelist and college professor, but has barely restrained disdain for her mother, Kate, and the domestic life she lives. When it is discovered that Kate has cancer, George pressures Ellen to come home and take care of her mother. Ellen is taken aback by this request, knowing it could jeopardize her career and love interest, but finally agrees, caving in to her father's appeals and LESS