Probably won't appeal to teens.

The script shifts audience sympathies about quite adroitly, though it's a pity all the men had to be such humbugs.

A well-oiled machine manufactured to tap our welled-up ducts.

Perilously light on drama and overly reliant on kooky comic mugging from Renée Zellweger, "One True Thing" is a film that is at least briefly enlivened by Meryl Streep before collapsing under the weight of its bizarre quasi-mystery framework.