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Terms of Endearment (1983)

PG | | Comedy, Drama | 9 December 1983 (USA)
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.

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Lisa Hart Carroll ...
Betty King ...
Rosie Dunlop (as Betty R. King)
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Younger Tommy Horton
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Melanie Horton
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Young Emma
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Storyline

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

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Come to Laugh, Come to Cry, Come to Care, Come to Terms.

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Comedy | Drama

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9 December 1983 (USA)  »

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La fuerza del cariño  »

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Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,498,813, 27 November 1983, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$108,423,489
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1.85 : 1
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This is one of only five films to receive two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In this instance, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. The other three films were All About Eve (1950), for which Anne Baxter and Bette Davis were nominated; Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), for which Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor were nominated; The Turning Point (1977), for which Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft were nominated; and Thelma & Louise (1991), for which Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were nominated. Of the actresses in question, MacLaine is the only one to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for the relevant performance. See more »

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Stop Trying To Pretend Like You Hate Me
6 March 2012 | by See all my reviews

I've heard many good things about James L. Brooks's 'Terms of Endearment' and finally I decided to give it ago. Honestly speaking I was expecting a typical melodramatic tearjerker that's sole aim is to emotionally manipulate the viewer. I was wrong. 'Terms of Endearment' is a slice of life that centres around a mother, her daughter and their respective lives. The film looks very authentic. The sets, makeup, costumes and art direction look genuine.

This is very much a character driven film. The dialogues are full of humour and wit but what's also striking is how deeply layered the words are. While the visuals are quite simplistic it's the characters that shine especially through the actors' natural performances. Their excellent non-verbal gestures, spot on line delivery and restrained performances are superb.

A sassy Shirley Maclaine and bubbly Debra Winger are spellbinding. Both actresses beautifully carry the film and they are brilliantly supported by fine actors like Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.

What particularly appealed to me about 'Terms of Endearment' is the depiction of the mother-daughter relationship and the dynamic of it. It definitely has its ups and downs and it does not involve the use of clichéd lines like 'I love you' etc but at the same time the unconditional love between them is wonderfully conveyed.


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