One True Thing

(Universal)

It's Oscar time and Meryl Streep is up for Best Supporting Actress, but the one true thing in this adaptation of Anna Quindlen's family portrait is Renée Zellweger as Quindlen's fictional alter ego, an up-and-coming journalist in New York City whose career is stalled when her controlling father (William Hurt), a small-town college professor, beckons her home to nursemaid her cancer-stricken mother (Streep).