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Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family tragicomedy film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway ...
Dec 9, 1983 · Terms of Endearment: Directed by James L. Brooks. With Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito. Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
- (66K)
- Comedy, Drama
- James L. Brooks
- 1983-12-09
Widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), have a strong bond, but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) against her...
- (110)
- James L. Brooks
- PG
- Shirley Maclaine
Children grow up into adolescence, Flap gets a job as head of the department in Nebraska, the astronaut turns out to have genuine human possibilities of becoming quasi-civilized, and mother and daughter grow into a warmer and deeper relationship.
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Over the next few years, Emma has two children with Flap, a college professor who relocates the family to a university in Des Moines, Iowa, separating the family hundreds of miles from Emma's meddlesome mother. Emma later telephones to ask her mother for money when she is pregnant with her third child.
Terms of Endearment. An audience favorite about hard-to-please Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) who is looking for love, and her daughter (Debra Winger), who has her own set of family problems. Also starring Jack Nicholson and winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 3,524 IMDb 7.4 2 h 9 min 1983. X-Ray PG.
