One True Thing (1998)

Regisseur:

Carl Franklin

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Anna Quindlen (novel)
Karen Croner (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

18. September 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

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:

Women | Dysfunctional | Understanding | Dysfunctional Family | Melodrama

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A well-acted, non-schmaltzy drama

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Familiensache (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Länge:

127 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:S | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:L | 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

Drehorte:

Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Firma:

Monarch Pictures

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: In some birthday-party scenes, daylight is visible through some windows, and lighting on the staircase suggests daylight, although the action is supposed to be at night, and other windows show darkness outdoors.

Dialogzitate:

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.

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Soundtrack:

My One True Friend

A well-acted, non-schmaltzy drama

What impressed me the most about "One True Thing" was how up-front it was when the daughter mentions her mother's cancer at the beginning of the movie. As depressing the subject matter was, it was a refreshing change of pace instead of being blindsided with the revelation about a character's fatal illness 2/3 into the movie ("Love Story" "Terms of Endearment", etc.).

Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and William Hurt give very strong performances that don't go over the edge. The characters they play seem human; they're not perfect people. (Arguably, one might not say that about the "Martha Stewart"-type character Streep plays but throughout the film, I found her character to be noble in a non-sappy way. She's dealing with her plight the best way she knows how.)

"One True Thing" is an observant, unsentimental family drama in which the tears at the end were well-earned.