One True Thing tells the story of Ellen Gulding, an ambitious writer living in New York who has to move back in with her parents because her mother is dealing with cancer. Ellen always idolized her father, a professor of literature, and didn't quite understand what he saw in her mother. As the cancer progresses, Ellen grows closer to her mother and begins to resent her father's habit of putting his career first. Her mother begs her to help end her life, but Ellen is unable to go through with it. Her mother takes her own life, and Ellen goes back to writing, her life forever changed.
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