George admits to Ellen that the reason he loved Kate was that she was full of light shining through everything, and he could not bear the thought of her light slipping away.Īs her mother is dying, Ellen tells her she loves her, and Kate says she knew it and always had.Īfter Kate's death, the autopsy reveals that Kate actually died of a morphine overdose. Ellen also learns that her father's philandering days have become lonely nights of drinking at a local bar to numb the pain of never again achieving success with, nor even being able to complete, further novels. Over time, Ellen grows closer to her mother and learns more about her parents' marriage-including realizing that Kate has known about George's affairs all along. She realizes she always brushed her mother aside and idealized her father, despite his self-centered focus on his career and, she discovers, a longtime habit of having flings with his female students.Įllen attempts to find a place for herself in her parents' life while struggling to continue writing on a freelance basis and maintain her relationship with her boyfriend in New York. However, she eventually agrees, caving in to her father's appeals and inducements.Īs Ellen helps her mother with domestic chores while her father goes about his usual business without helping much, Ellen begins to reassess her views of her parents.
Ellen is taken aback by this request, knowing it could jeopardize her career and love interest. When it is discovered that Kate has cancer, George pressures Ellen to come home and take care of her mother. Ellen has always viewed her as a ditzy Stepford Wife. It becomes obvious that she deeply admires George, a once-celebrated novelist and literature professor at Princeton University, but Ellen has barely restrained disdain for her mother Kate and the domestic life she lives. Ellen is visiting her family home for her father George's surprise birthday party. The film was shot in Morristown, New Jersey and Maplewood, New Jersey, as well as at the campus of Princeton University.Įllen Gulden has a high-pressure job writing for New York magazine. The track was first released on Midler's 1998 album Bathhouse Betty.
Bette Midler sings the lead song, " My One True Friend", over the end credits. The film stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott. The script was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen, with the story being based on Quindlen's own struggle with the death of her mother, Prudence Pantano Quindlen, from ovarian cancer in 1972. It tells the story of a woman in her 20s who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother, who is dying of cancer. One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin.
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