One True Thing

Family Affair is an American film drama directed by Carl Franklin from the year 1998. Arose from a novel by Anna Quindlen.

Action

The film begins with a brief flashback to the youth of the protagonist Ellen Gulden. In it we learn that the father places a lot of emphasis on literary education, the mother, however, does not take much for sure. It is obvious that Ellen rather emulate their father than their mother. Shortly thereafter, the now grown- Ellen is seen in an office as a prosecutor describes the distant relationship with her mother. The following discussion is happening at home guilders are using flashbacks, rolled up in chronological order. It is the discrepancy between the described and the actual events only gradually visible. It all starts with the fact that Ellen, now a successful journalist, along with her best friend Jules goes to the birthday of her father, a renowned professor of American literature, returns to her hometown. On the day of her arrival, she learns that her younger brother Brian has fallen through the final exam in American literature, but he concealed his father. The mother, however, is as ever in good spirits and has a surprise party for her husband prepared which opens into an apparently successful party. The next day, Ellen learns of her father, but that her mother Kate is suffering from cancer. Her father puts her close to give up her job and to take care of her mother. Ellen experienced great internal struggles, as the decision could mean the end of their career. Your boss offers her a promotion because he believes the stories about her dying mother had a disguised request. Ellen is horrified. Then she decided reluctantly to return to the small town. Now Ellen receives insights into the daily lives of her mother with the simultaneous krankheitsbedingrten expiration thereof. During the next few months, Ellen comes to her mother closer and began to distance himself from her father. Finally culminate the events that Ellen learns to love their mother and their father entglorifizieren. She also begins the true relationship of their parents to understand each other.

Ultimately suspected the prosecutor daughter and father to have given to the mother a lethal morphine overdose. In the final scene, however, it is clear that obviously the mother was the only one that had the strength to do it in the proverbial sense to afford euthanasia.

Reviews

Filmdienst ". A sensitive film about a intrafamilial healing process that sent the balance between closeness and distance to the characters keeps and finds a compelling unit by the ideal casting of the main characters "

Awards

Meryl Streep was nominated for her performance for an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award in 1999. She was also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Satellite Award. The film was nominated for the sound editor for the Golden Reel Award in 1999.

Background

The cost of production was estimated at 30 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 23.2 million U.S. dollars.

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1998 in film Screenplay Film score Cliff Eidelman Declan Quinn 1999 in film
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