One True Thing | | Cast : | Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt | | Director : | Carl Franklin | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 18, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | January 07, 2003 | | Language : | Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 23, 2005 | | Summary | Great Movie - Worth seeing and owning | Content
 | I loved this movie. I have not read the book, but now I must. The R rating is a little bit of a puzzle, I though it was pretty mild. Great human interest story. The family reminded me of my family - kind of eery - if you know what I mean. I really thought the performances were powerful. You'll love it. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 26, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is a treasure. Truly. | Content
| This is one of those movies you recommend to strangers because you're absolutely certain they'll love it the way you do. Watching Meryl Streep in anything is pleasurable, but watching her be the dying mother of Renee Zellweger's character is a treasure. There are moments in the movie (and the book) when you are suddenly aware there is a shift happening inside you... you have been moved in a way you seldom are, and you don't forget it. When Kate (Streep) and Ellen (Zellweger) stand together at the lighting of the Christmas trees, you shift. When Kate explains the complicity of marriage to a bitter Ellen, you shift. When Kate pleads for an end to her pain... it's just heart-wrenching. The movie is quiet, rather than in your face, and that is part of it's treasure. It's also just as good as the book - not one where you walk away wishing you'd stopped after the book. It is a wonderful movie, one you'll want to keep in your collection of gems. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 01, 2004 | | Summary | if i could i would give it 10 | Content
| There are no words to describe this movie. The book is amazing but is does use many "bad" words in it. The movie uses some but nothing drastic!! This movie is the best. What can you expect from such an amazing cast. The developement of the characters is very well presented and this movie VERY LIKELY will make you cry, male or female. After this movie you just want to watch it again and again. Some of the scenes could be cut shorter but they also "make" the movie. After watching the movie, you should discuss it with the people who watched it with you, it's interesting to see other peoples thoughts on this movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 13, 2004 | | Summary | Great actors deliver in this gut wrencher of a movie! | Content
| Streep, Zellweger,Hurt and a strong and sensitively styled adaptation of the best selling novel makes ONE TRUE THING worth every minute of your viewing pleasure .They don't get much better than this.Anyone who has had to deal with dysfunctional family dynamics in the face of imminent death will find this movie a great release in which to help sort out your feelings.This film never quite allows you to get completely angry or completely sympathetic to any of the characters because they are shown in all of their glory as well as with all of their warts.This is a must see!! |
| Rating | | | Date | November 12, 2004 | | Summary | Ivory Tower "Pinhead" meets Reality, Confronts a True Life. | Content
| The book and film is a great commentary on the self-obsession, self-absorption about nothing that many middle class families are stuck in a rut about. Professor Gulden (William Hurt) is a legend in his own mind, creating fiction that no one cares, no one reads or no one knows.
Professor Gulden has a phony, fake, false, make-believe job as a English college professor teaching classes where students read a few books and somehow they a "journey". Professor Gulden is the stereotypical egghead or rather pinhead found on many colleges campuses who hold fake jobs and do not actually make a living like everyone else. Gulden would rather live a world of fiction rather confront the true world.
However, once the Wife, Meryl Streep at her finest, gets cancer, the Egghead Professor has to deal with his true life. Cancer is real. Fiction is not. Her daughter, a journalist in New York, must put her so-called career on hold to take care of her mother.
All the arts, farts, literary, poetry crowd have a real air of importance. A cup of Starbucks and a few screeds of the pencil amounts to great poetry, masterpieces of writing for coffee-house crowd.
This is wonderful movie, subtle, genuine at the best. The title is about one "True Thing", not the phony, fiction world of the Professor. All the characters in the movie have phony, fake, make-believe jobs. When cancer struck, nature is not and will not be a fictionalized part of a egghead professor's life. |
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