“One True Thing” quotes
(1998)
Title One True Thing
Year 1998
Director Carl Franklin
Genre Drama
Year 1998
Director Carl Franklin
Genre Drama
Plot – Ellen has moved to New York from Langhorne to work as a journalist. When she comes back home for her father's birthday, the man criticizes her articles. He's a brilliant literature professor indeed, while her mother Kate is an housewife. When she's diagnosed with cancer, Ellen would like to go back to New York, but then she decides to stay close to her mother. At Christmas, Kate's conditions worsen and after the New Year's eve she asks her daughter to help her to die. Ellen refuses so Kate asks the same thing to her husband. The woman dies but the girl has to explain the events to a lawyer, who states Kate died due to an excess of morphine. Father and daughter go together to the woman's grave and they learn Kate must have ingested the drug by herself.
All actors – Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt, James Eckhouse, Patrick Breen, Gerrit Graham, David Byron, Stephen Peabody, Lizbeth MacKay
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“It's only in going uphill that you realize you're headed downhill.”
“Thank you for the world so sweet. Thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing. Thank you, God, for everything.”
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