Movie
One True Thing
Overview
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-09-18
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Monarch Pictures, Ufland
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden
- Renée Zellweger as Ellen Gulden
- William Hurt as George Gulden
- Tom Everett Scott as Brian Gulden
- Lauren Graham as Jules
- Nicky Katt as Jordan Belzer
- James Eckhouse as District Attorney
- Patrick Breen as G.A. Tweedy
- Gerrit Graham as Oliver Most
- David Byron as Senator Sullivan
- Stephen Peabody as Harold
- Lizbeth Mackay as Dr. Cohen
Crew
- Carl Franklin - Director
- Karen Croner - Screenplay
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