One True Thing
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Carl Franklin
Jeffrey Scaperrotta
Joanna Hoty Russell
Julie Janney
Mary Catherine Wright
David Byron
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Few moments in life are as powerful, emotionally charged or rife with humor as returning home to visit your parents as an adult. For ambitious New York journalist Ellen Gulden, the journey back to her quaint hometown in the midst of a crisis is all of those things. Returning home to help her father care for her terminally-ill mother, Ellen must confront a relationship with her mother that has always been strained. While Kate is a homemaker with small town hobbies, Ellen worships her father as an intellectual who nurtured her own writing aspirations. But when her father's behaviour is revealed as less than perfect, the balance of her family is altered. In the face of her mother's impending death, Ellen is forced to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about her family, her past and even her life itself.
Cast
Jeffrey Scaperrotta
Joanna Hoty Russell
Julie Janney
Mary Catherine Wright
David Byron
Tom Everett Scott
James Eckhouse
Paul Schroeder
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Meryl Streep
Nancy Tkacs
Todd Cerveris
Sloane Shelton
Marylouise Burke
Susan Stout
James E Graseck
Phil Gamble
Diana Canova
Barbara Savino
Rosemary Palmer
Ashley Remy
Anna Alvim
David Hutchings
Rebecca Raines
Scott Spray
Hallee Hirsh
Ruth Egner
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Rich Morin
Julianne Nicholson
Cathy Comiskey
Nicky Katt
Yolande Bavan
Kirk Driscoll
Amber Kain
Chris Sterling
Wolodymyr Smishkewych
Kathryn Walsh
Benjamin Andrews
Greg Hedtke
Mary G Sims
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William Hurt
Linda Hutchings
Lizabeth Mackay
Stephen Peabody
Peter Zimmerman
Gerritt Graham
Paul Pimsler
Christian James
Bruce Lee Gross
Jay Stollman
Michele Shay
Wilbur Lewis
Doug Allen
Saul Williams
Normana Schaaf
Renée Zellweger
Barbara Russell
John Deyle
Lauren Toub
Patrick Breen
Gina Piccolo
Bobo Lewis
Lauren Graham
Annette Mulholland
Crew
Ernie Acquavella
Randle Akerson
Doug Allen
Doug Allen
Joe Amoruso
Amy Andrews
James Archer
Harold Arlen
Tony Arnaud
Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Jesse B'franklin
David J Babcock
Erica Bamforth
Edward Battista
Jack Bavaro
Daniel Beaman
Daniel Beaman
Tom Beattie
Maureen Beitler
Eyde Belasco
Jim Belletier
Ed Bentz
Patrick Bentz
Lisa Bergen
Lynne Bergen
Martin Bernstein
James R Bilz
Zoran Blazevic
J P Blonshine
Andrew Bock
Mark Bodnar
J Boinghton
Bruce Botnick
Henry Boyle
J. C. Brotherhood
Alexandra Kipani Browne
Joe Buda
Richard Burton
Allan Byer
Colleen Callaghan
Kymbra Callaghan
Carmen Campolo
Paul Candrilli
Anne Carroll
Jerry Carter
Andrew Casey
Andrew Casey
David Chacon
R Carl Clifford
Toni Coburn
Simon Coke
Robert Collins
Danny Coss
Karen Croner
Michael Curry
Steven Curtis
Robert Dawson
Sandy De Crescent
Eugene Depasquale
Ellen Doak
Christopher Dolan
Richard N Dolan
Richard Bryan Douglas
Peter J Dowd
Warren Drummond
Ted Duncan
Jeanne Dupont
Cliff Eidelman
Alyson Evans
Frank Eyton
Karen Reuter Fabbo
Robert Fajardo
Andrew Farley
Joe Farulla
John Featherstone
Ken Ferris
Joan Finlay
Frank Fleming
Joe Flynn
Richard Ford
Tom Ford
David Foster
Marcus Franklin
Laura Franses
Ralph Fratianni
Steve Fratianni
Bobby Freeman
James French
Marie Gabriel
Jim Galvin
John Gaskin
Gary Gegan
Dan Genetti
John D Genovese
Sheila Gentile
Stefan Gesek
Nerses Gezalyan
Alex Gibson
Michele Giordano
Don Givens
Mike Gonzales
Roy Grace
Gloria Grant
Dennis Green
Johnny Green
Moonstar Greene
Nancy Griffith
Denise Gurkas
Remi Guyton
Darrell Hall
Gudrun Halt
Terry Ham
Albert W Hamilton
E. Y. Harburg
Kevin Harrigan
Barbara Harris
Kimberly Harris
Meredith Haut
Gary Hecker
J. Roy Helland
Donna Hernandez
Edward Heyman
Ryan Hintz
Sam Hoffman
Steve Hollingsworth
Tina Hong
John Hunt
Matthew Iadarola
Sharon Ilson
Michael Iriarte
Mai Iskander
Mai Iskander
Anthony Jamison
Jim Jelardi
Gregory A Jennings
Robin Johnston
Richard S Kamin
Doc Kane
Joe Kelly
Stuart Kelly
Brendan Kennedy
Phil Kennedy
Steiner C Kierce
Carole King
Steve Kirshoff
Cliff Klatt
Robert Klatt
Mark Klingman
Robin Koenig
Gabor Kover
Jason Lanci
Hector Lavoe
Hector Lavoe
William Linhart
Melanie Lynch
John R Macdonald
Todd Macnicholl
Kim Maitland
Bernie Martin
Edgar Martin
Lewis A Martinee
Leslie Martino
Christine Mayer
Buddy Mcbride
Maureen Mccomsey
James Mccullagh
Jeffrey D Mcdonald
Brita Mcveigh
Darius Menard
Rob Merk
Robert Merk
Kay Michaels
Bette Midler
Wayne Miller
Karen Minahan
Charles Mingus
Jerry Mitchell
John Mitchell
Leslie Morgan
Vincent Mourou
Matthew W. Mungle
Charlie Murphy
Scott P. Murphy
Denis Murray
George Nadramia
William V Nesherbon
Bob Newlan
Paul Nickason
Dale Pierce Nielson
Jason Ninness
Mark Nissenholz
David Noble
James Nolan
Chris Norr
Heather Norton
Pepper O'brien
Thomas J. O'connell
Elaine O'donnell
Kevin O'neill
Mobolaji Olambiwonnu
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Actress
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall September 18, 1998
Released in United States on Video March 16, 1999
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States February 1999
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (out of competition) August 27 - September 7, 1998.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (out of competition) February 10-21, 1999.
Project was previously in development at Fox 2000.
Completed shooting January 27, 1998.
Began shooting October 14, 1997.
Released in United States Fall September 18, 1998
Released in United States on Video March 16, 1999
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (out of competition) August 27 - September 7, 1998.)
Released in United States February 1999 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (out of competition) February 10-21, 1999.)