One True Thing

As many nice things as you can say about this movie (the cast, a few well done moments here or there), your experience will depend on how much you connect with the characters. I didn't find anyone in this stultifyingly conventional milieu to be quite interesting enough to merit this kind of attention.

İçli bir aile draması. Genç yaşta kanser olan ve göz göre göre ölüme adım adım yürüyen bir anne ve işini bırakmak zorunda kalan hırslı gazeteci kızı. Kısa da olsa Lorelai Gilmore bile var (Graham, Ellen'ın arkadaşı rolünde). Streep ve Zellweger oyunculuk dersi vermişler, her sahneleri beni ayrı bir yaraladı. Sonu seyirciyi şaşırtıyor ama tatmin etmiyor. İlk sahnelerde Dorothy kılığına girmiş Streep, karşısında geleceğin Judy'si (Renee).

Streep and Hurt's magnificent, heart breaking performances are the truest things about uneven family drama, which goes on far too long and becomes somewhat repetitive in its second half. Direction and screenplay waver between effective subtlety and brash obviousness, especially in its negative depiction of male characters, and a clumsy flashback structure attempts to build phony and unnecessary suspense about the outcome. Zellweger's long-suffering martyr act also becomes very difficult to take.

Powerful performance elevates melodrama. I liked the way Hurt's character was portrayed, and found it to be the most interesting aspect. I feel that it would have benefited from condensing a little, also.

Franklin's screen version of the Quindlen novel does not escape the TV-movie-disease-of-the-week syndrome. Neither does it escape a certain schematicism in its treatment of women's issues, mother versus daughter, family versus career, love versus sex. The old-fashioned homemaker and community do-gooder never seems a credible mate for the pretentious my-career-is-more-important-than-your-career college Lit. professor, with his ready anecdotes of Steinbeck and Schiller

More of the same, but with more "love" of sorts. The handling here is better, & the story a different sort of poignant. The cast works together to make a realism invade the viewer which is somewhat refreshing (depressing). But in a good way.

True to form for modern chick pictures: All About Our Suffering, and all the men are twits. It's reasonably entertaining, but still...

It's the same story we've seen and heard over and over, but though this sounds cliché-ed, Streep truly manages to take it to a higher level. And Renée Zellweger is quite good as well.