One True Thing (1998)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Carl Franklin

Escritores (WGA):

Anna Quindlen (novel)
Karen Croner (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 septiembre 1998 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Love What You Have.

Plot:

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Plot Keywords:

Cancer | New York | Job | Love | Professor

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A fine family drama that rises above the schmaltz.

Reparto

Meryl Streep	...	Kate Gulden
Renée Zellweger	...	Ellen Gulden
William Hurt	...	George Gulden
Tom Everett Scott	...	Brian Gulden
Lauren Graham	...	Jules
Nicky Katt	...	Jordan Belzer
James Eckhouse	...	District Attorney
Patrick Breen	...	G.A. Tweedy
Gerrit Graham	...	Oliver Most
David Byron	...	Senator Sullivan
Stephen Peabody	...	Harold
Lizbeth MacKay	...	Dr. Cohen
Mary Catherine Wright	...	Clarice
Sloane Shelton	...	Evelyn Best
Michele Shay	...	June

También conocida como:

Cosas que importan (Argentina) (Mexico) (Peru) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Duración:

127 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:L | Finland:S | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Chile:14 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | New Zealand:M | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Compañía:

Monarch Pictures

Errores:

Anacronismos: The story takes place in 1988 but many of the hairstyles and automobiles are '90s style.

Citas:

Kate Gulden: It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en AFI Tribute to Meryl Streep (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Do You Want To Dance

A fine family drama that rises above the schmaltz.

One True Thing rises above its potentially schlocky material to give us a view of a family of complex relationships and flawed, real people. It opens with Rene Zeleweger discussing her mother's death with the District Attorney; sparing us the cheap cinematic shots of a "shocking" illness and death. From there it proceeds into a look at a family system, in which everyone plays by a set of unexamined rules, and uses the mother's cancer to show what happens when all the rules change.

William Hurt as the self-important father, and Meryl Streep as the Suzy Homemaker mother are both superb; nuanced and not what they appear to be. Zeleweger is seething, angry and surprised with herself. Tom Everett Scott doesn't have much to do, but he does it well.

The story is predictable, and takes at least one badly soppy turn it needn't have taken, but the performances, and the view of family as a place where anger and love are equally mixed, make it worthwhile.