Probably won't appeal to teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The script shifts audience sympathies about quite adroitly, though it's a pity all the men had to be such humbugs.

| Jan 26, 2006

A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Even director Carl Franklin...can't prevent One True Thing from descending into chick-movie hell.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

One True Thing demonstrates that the power of simple things, the transcendent nature of the ordinary, can make for riveting filmmaking.

| Feb 14, 2001

Streep is luminous as the hypermaternal Kate.

| Jan 1, 2000

One True Thing celebrates the very things you don't miss, or even know exist, until they are gone.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Streep and Hurt, two of the best gestural actors working, let the showboating tics fly fast and thick.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Franklin seems ill-suited to this cast and this material.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

One True Thing is real enough to be a film you can believe in.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Streep shines!

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Its strong cast and restrained direction lift it above the Kleenex.

| Jan 1, 2000

The actors are all phenomenally affecting, and Carl Franklin's direction and Declan Quinn's camerawork make the most of the little moments that pass between people.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Streep's performance makes the movie worth seeing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Meryl Streep is an actress of such transcendent skill and sympathy that she regularly elevates her material, taking it up several notches and giving us feelings, insights, feelings and textures the original writer may have just missed expressing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sensitively written, fluidly directed and expertly acted!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It is the craftsmanship that elevates One True Thing above the level of a soaper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000