One True Thing

“Love What You Have.”

Ellen Gulden (Renée Zellweger) is a young journalist who wants her professor father's approval and has spent years chasing it. Then her mother, Kate (Meryl Streep), is diagnosed with cancer, and Ellen has to leave her work and come home to take care of her. Carl Franklin keeps the story in that house, where a daughter who thought she knew her parents starts to see how little she did.