The plot of the film goes deeply into the current problems of any family. A couple with two children, both studying, the lady very well but the boy doing someething different of what his father wants from him, the mother as a housewife happy organizing parties and other social activities and also aware of what his husband beside his work is doing. She felt sick with cancer, and she does not want to be helped, she wants to work and to do what every day she does. Her daughter, already a professional inspired in the example of her father who is a professor, started to take care of her mother but also noticed that her father was doing something wrong out of the family. They discussed in a violent way publicly, and the mother before her death asked her to accept the life as it is and his father too. If you analyze the plot you may find that the situation drawn here is common in several other families all over the world. Life goes more or less smoothly until one of the member starts decaying, the family goes well but need all elements functioning, nobody is perfect and it is necessary to co-exist with the problems of the others making the life of each one compatible in the family and in the society. So the content of the film is quite interesting, but we should also acknowledge the acting of Meryl Streep, who in every film shows her extraordinary class, she is probably among the all-time five best actresses of cinema, while young Renée Zellweger did a work even much better than the one she did in "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001). Her acting was so natural that at certain point I thought she was real. Certainly she is better to star in dramas than in comedies. William Hurt, as usual, acted also splendidly.
Review of One True Thing
