Paramount Pictures
Terms of Endearment Collection
Terms of Endearment
Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms.
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
- Original title
- Terms of Endearment
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Revenue
- $108,423,749
CinemaSerf
Jun 24, 2022 · via TMDB
I hated the story, let's get that out of the way first. This film is about character acting at it's best, though, and Shirley MacLaine ("Aurora") and Jack Nicholson ("Garrett") bring us charisma and entertainment in spades which thankfully rescues the really pedestrian plot from abject mediocrity. Since her birth, "Aurora" has fussed over her daughter "Emma" (Debra Winger) and upon the death of her husband, settles down to a rather vicarious existence living life through her daughter, her husband "Flap" (Jeff Daniels) and their children. She is a strong willed woman, with love that can be gentle and kindly, or that can be rude and interfering with much of the frequently sardonic humour emanating from her disinclination to let them live their own lives. Next door we find "Garrett", a somewhat disreputable womaniser. A former astronaut who trades well on his erstwhile status, but who takes a bit of a shine to "Aurora" - and that's another source of lively comedy as the two clash with engaging regularity. The last hour descends rather quickly into melancholy, though, as the young "Emma" has to deal with her own problem husband, and an illness that starts to focus the attention from all concerned onto what really matters with their relationships. MacLaine is always good with these rough-round-the-edges roles and here there is plenty of chemistry on the sparing occasions in which she and Nicholson feature. Sadly, for me anyway, the rest of this hovers way too close to melodrama and though at its best it is really good, for the most part I was rather underwhelmed by the family antics that underpinned so much of the (over-long) story.
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Shirley MacLaine
Aurora Greenway
Debra Winger
Emma Greenway Horton
Jack Nicholson
Garrett Breedlove
Danny DeVito
Vernon Dahlart
Jeff Daniels
Flap Horton
John Lithgow
Sam Burns
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Lee Anne
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Albert Brooks
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Polly Platt
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Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director of Photography
Kristi Zea
Costume Design
Jeannie Epper
Stunts
James L. Brooks
Director
Richard Marks
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Ellen Chenoweth
Casting
Juliet Taylor
Casting
James L. Brooks
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Michael Gore
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Kevin O'Connell
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Larry McMurtry
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James L. Brooks
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