![]() ![]() Shown at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival. Locations in New Jersey were used to create the film's Eastern coastal college town. But tensions erupt as long-buried family secrets emerge. Ellen's attitude changes when it becomes apparent this probably will be the final Thanksgiving and Christmas with all family members present. Once Ellen arrives back home, she's dismayed to find herself caught in the web of her mother's Middle America activities. In truth, Ellen is uncomfortable with her mother's various ladies club lunches, and holiday preparations, and she finds communication with her mother awkward. Ellen needs to get away from the problems of her relationship with her boyfriend Jordan (Nicky Katt), but she plans to continue work on the magazine article from home. ![]() He tells Ellen she's needed at home to care for her mother, Kate (Meryl Streep), who's due for surgery. One True Thing : Anna Quindlen : Random House Trade Paperbacks : A Novel : : 320 : USD 13. Anna Quindlens novel One True Thing (1994) examines the domestic politics and family dynamics of an American middle-class nuclear family confronted by the. In 1987-88, independent Ellen Gulden (Renee Zellweger), a Harvard grad, is working on a New York Magazine investigative article when she hears from her father, George (William Hurt), a literary critic and university professor. ![]() Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother. ![]()
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