One True Thing

1998 film by Carl Franklin

One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film about a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. The movie stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott.

Directed by Carl Franklin. Written by Karen Croner, based on the novel by Anna Quindlen.

George

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  • Your mother needs you, Ellen! Jesus Christ, you've got a Harvard education, but where is your heart?

Kate

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  • It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Dialogue

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Kate: [dressed as Dorothy] Welcome! There's no place like home!
Ellen: [silently, to herself] Thank God.
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