One True Thing

1998 • 127 minutes

About this movie

Join Academy Award winners Meryl Streep and William Hurt, along with Renee Zellweger, for an unforgettable look at the pleasure, pain and ultimate joy of being a family. When crisis confronts Katherine and George Gulden, they turn to their grown daughter, Ellen, for support. An ambitious New York journalist, Ellen at first rejects the idea of returning home. But once there, Ellen embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will change her forever. Uplifting and humorous, One True Thing is filled with the power of genuine passion.

Ratings and reviews

This movie came out at the exact time my mother was dying of cancer and I had so many things I had never told her etc....and I listened to the song "seasons change" by Expose over and over again flying back and forth to Oklahoma. ..Our family state and at that time never knew the movie had that song in it until after my mom died. Incredible!! It may have been a love song but I Incorporated that to be a song to my mom that I never got to tell her how I really felt about her

Touching story about how a family both pulls together & falls apart during such a heart breaking time in which the Mother of the family is battling against cancer. I can SO relate. Be there, done that.

Part mystery, part emotional drama, but all love story, One True Thing is a pleasure to watch.