One True Thing
One True Thing
One True Thing
Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1998
2h 7m
6.5(132 votes)
Drama
Romance

Overview

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Where to Watch

Rent

Amazon Video

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

36 members
Acting

Meryl Streep

Kate Gulden

Meryl Streep
Acting

Renée Zellweger

Ellen Gulden

Renée Zellweger
Acting

William Hurt

George Gulden

William Hurt
Acting

Tom Everett Scott

Brian Gulden

Tom Everett Scott
Acting

Lauren Graham

Jules

Lauren Graham
Acting

Nicky Katt

Jordan Belzer

Nicky Katt
Acting

James Eckhouse

District Attorney

James Eckhouse
Acting

Patrick Breen

G.A. Tweedy

Patrick Breen
Acting

Gerrit Graham

Oliver Most

Gerrit Graham
Acting

David Byron

Senator Sullivan

No Image
Acting

Stephen Peabody

Harold

Stephen Peabody
Acting

Lizbeth MacKay

Dr. Cohen

Lizbeth MacKay
Acting

Mary Catherine Wright

Clarice

No Image
Acting

Sloane Shelton

Evelyn Best

Sloane Shelton
Acting

Michele Shay

June

Michele Shay
Acting

Bobo Lewis

Muriel

Bobo Lewis
Acting

Marylouise Burke

Louisa

Marylouise Burke
Acting

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Marcia

Marcia Jean Kurtz
Acting

Diana Canova

Diana

Diana Canova
Acting

John Deyle

Santa / Mayor

John Deyle
Acting

Hallee Hirsh

Ellen - Age 8

Hallee Hirsh
Acting

Jeffrey Scaperrotta

Brian - Age 4

Jeffrey Scaperrotta
Acting

Todd Cerveris

Casey

Todd Cerveris
Acting

Anna Carolina Alvim

Nurse Teresa

Anna Carolina Alvim
Acting

Julie Janney

Hospital Nurse

Julie Janney
Acting

Susan Stout

Tweedy's Secretary

No Image
Acting

Greg Hedtke

Magazine Executive

No Image
Acting

Christian James

Magazine Executive

No Image
Acting

Lauren Toub

Halloween Girl

Lauren Toub
Acting

Ashley Remy

Halloween Girl

No Image
Acting

Saul Williams

Graduate Student

Saul Williams
Acting

Julianne Nicholson

College Student

Julianne Nicholson
Acting

Amber Kain

College Student

No Image
Acting

Yolande Bavan

Nari

No Image
Acting

Benjamin Andrews

Party Kid

No Image
Acting

Kathryn Walsh

Party Kid

No Image

Similar Movies

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding
7.0
2014

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding is the story of a young popular spirit medium, who is hired to find a spouse for a dead teenage boy. The chosen bride turns out to be an unexpected person, and this snowballs into a series of events culminating in a Chinese ghost wedding.

Movie
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7.1
2004

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

Movie
Cléo from 5 to 7
7.7
1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Movie
Little Miss Sunshine
7.7
2006

Little Miss Sunshine

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Movie
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
6.5
2002

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

Movie
Big Fish
7.8
2003

Big Fish

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

Movie
Love Story
6.8
1970

Love Story

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.

Movie
Dying Young
6.7
1991

Dying Young

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Movie
Medicine Man
6.0
1992

Medicine Man

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

Movie
Raspberry Magic
4.2
2010

Raspberry Magic

Eleven-year-old Monica Shah is a brainy schoolgirl whose science fair project about growing raspberries becomes a touching emotional crusade. After her dad leaves and her mother falls into a funk, Monica decides it's her job to rescue the family.

Movie
Marvin's Room
6.7
1996

Marvin's Room

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

Movie
My Sister's Keeper
7.4
2009

My Sister's Keeper

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

Movie
The Elementary Particles
6.1
2006

The Elementary Particles

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.

Movie
The Darjeeling Limited
7.2
2007

The Darjeeling Limited

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

Movie
The Making of a Superhero Musical
2015

The Making of a Superhero Musical

A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the production in a rather unusual way.

Movie
Thirsty
3.0
2025

Thirsty

An Oakland mayoral candidate struggles to figure out her personal and professional lives.

Movie
The Whole of the Moon
6.0
1996

The Whole of the Moon

When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him, losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty - a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia. Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience everything.

Movie
Where Did the Adults Go?
2025

Where Did the Adults Go?

Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the family summer home to reminisce and have brunch at their parents’ favorite restaurant. But the siblings have never fully gotten along, and to make matters worse, Cynthia is in a financial rut this year. When she proposes to sell the summer house, Bryce pushes back with full force. The two turn to Miles for the deciding vote, but Miles doesn’t care all that much about the house: he is hung up on the fact that his longtime girlfriend, Gabby, recently left Thus, the weekend unfolds with the siblings’ relationships unravelling into dramatic, conflicted fever dreams of self-identity, broken bonds, and repressed love.

Movie
Madea's Destination Wedding
6.1
2025

Madea's Destination Wedding

Madea packs her best floral dresses and a whole lot of chaos when the Simmons family heads to the Bahamas for her grandniece's whirlwind wedding.

Movie
The Boys Are Back
6.3
2009

The Boys Are Back

When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Dolphin Reef
6.9
2018

Dolphin Reef

Echo is a youngster who can't quite decide if it's time to grow up and take on new responsibilities-or give in to her silly side and just have fun. Dolphin society is tricky, and the coral reef that Echo and his family call home depends on all of its inhabitants to keep it healthy. But Echo has a tough time resisting the many adventures the ocean has to offer.

Movie
The Opposite of Sex
6.1
1998

The Opposite of Sex

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Movie
Marvin's Room
6.7
1996

Marvin's Room

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

Movie
The Miracle Worker
7.9
1962

The Miracle Worker

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

Movie
It Runs in the Family
6.0
2003

It Runs in the Family

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Movie
I Got Life!
6.1
2017

I Got Life!

Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.

Movie
Abandon
4.9
2002

Abandon

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

Movie
Deceiver
6.0
1997

Deceiver

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

Movie
Boyzone: Back Again... No Matter What - Live
9.5
2008

Boyzone: Back Again... No Matter What - Live

Comeback tour by Irish boy band Boyzone.

Movie
The Worst Christmas of My Life
5.9
2012

The Worst Christmas of My Life

Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.

Movie
Serena
5.6
2014

Serena

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

Movie
Colette
6.9
2018

Colette

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Movie
Wild Things
6.4
1998

Wild Things

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

Movie
Out of Africa
7.2
1985

Out of Africa

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Movie
Luckiest Girl Alive
6.5
2022

Luckiest Girl Alive

A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

Movie
What's in a Name
7.3
2012

What's in a Name

Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable...

Movie
The Italian Job
6.8
2003

The Italian Job

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Movie
The Giver
6.6
2014

The Giver

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Movie
Us
7.0
2019

Us

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

Movie
The Green Mile
8.5
1999

The Green Mile

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Movie