Plot
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Release Year: 1998
Rating: 6.9/10 (6,300 voted)
Critic's Score: 63/100
Director:
Carl Franklin
Stars: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt
Storyline When a tough New Yorker's mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother and father and her life along the way.
Writers: Anna Quindlen, Karen Croner
Cast: Meryl Streep
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Kate Gulden
Renée Zellweger
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Ellen Gulden
William Hurt
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George Gulden
Tom Everett Scott
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Brian Gulden
Lauren Graham
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Jules
Nicky Katt
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Jordan Belzer
James Eckhouse
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District Attorney
Patrick Breen
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G.A. Tweedy
Gerrit Graham
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Oliver Most
David Byron
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Senator Sullivan
Stephen Peabody
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Harold
Lizbeth MacKay
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Dr. Cohen
Mary Catherine Wright
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Clarice
Sloane Shelton
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Evelyn Best
Michele Shay
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June
Taglines:
Love What You Have.
Release Date: 18 September 1998
Filming Locations: Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $30,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $6,606,455
(USA)
(20 September 1998)
(1590 Screens)
Gross: $23,245,840
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Goofs:
Continuity:
Ellen's nightdress changes between shots when she answers the phone in bed.
Quotes: Kate Gulden:
Thank you for the world so sweet.Thank you for the food we eat.Thank you for the birds that sing.Thank you, God, for everything.
User Review
Fabulous!
Rating: 10/10
The reason I think this movie is fabulous is that it has so many layers
of emotion. From the script and the fabulous acting you can tell that
there is a history behind all of the feelings that there are. You
understand why the characters take certain actions and why the do not
make others. You can feel sympathy and joy and love and sorrow for them
all at once. You see humanity at its best AND at it's worst. You can
relate to the characters because although you may have never been in
their exact situations before you see qualities and downfalls in them
that you see in yourself. To a certain extent this movie kind of keeps
you wondering but then at the end it explains itself and you feel a
certain peace and understanding not only in you but for the characters.
I will say that I have have never EVER cried so much in my life nor
have gotten so much out of something. I implore you to watch this movie
and take it's meaning to heart. That there is only one true thing and
that is... love.
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