Terms of Endearment
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Movie Reviews of Terms of Endearment
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Summary: 5 Stars
Was very pleased with the movie, it arrived quick. Very pleased with the service.Movie Review: a Fan *+#<*%g Tastic Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
Just as good now, or even better than when we first saw it way back when.Movie Review: love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
reminds me of somewhat of my life.
a great movie.
Movie Review: Very interesting characters.
Summary: 4 Stars
Summary:The movie is essentially about the relationship between a mother and her daughter but almost comes across as two separate movies because it follows the two women separately for a large part of the movie and then brings them back together at times.
Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) is Emma Greenway Horton's mother (Debra Winger). Aurora is over-protective and controlling, but Emma eventually finds her way out of her mother's home when she marries Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels). Emma and Flap move away from Aurora so Flap can pursue his career as a professor. Emma, meanwhile, is a stay at home mother and has three kids. While Flap and Emma are away, Aurora, who has constantly had suitors visiting her, finally decides she is going to develop a relationship with her neighbor, Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), who is a former astronaut and is now a drink-crazed womanizer. As it turns out, Garrett is just the person Aurora needs to come out of her shell and their relationship turns into something more than is expected at the beginning.
While Aurora is finding someone to love, Emma and Flap are doing the same - they just aren't doing it with each other. Both end up having affairs (at least, so we think). After discovering that Flap is becoming involved with a woman, Emma goes to the doctor for a flu shot for her and her daughter and finds out that she has cancer.
Emma ends up dying, Flap goes off with the other woman, and the three kids end up with Aurora back in Texas who is continuing to develop her relationship with the slightly calmed Garrett.
My Comments:
The movie kept my attention throughout though it isn't particularly exciting (except when Garrett is around). What makes the movie so interesting is the characters - which should make most movies interesting. After watching it with some friends, I asked them what they thought and one of them said that they were all really screwed up people. I couldn't help but think that they probably were no more screwed up in their own way than most other people are. I think we are all strange and weird in our own ways. And, even though the characters in this movie might be a bit more extreme than some people, they are still people just trying to find people that love them.
The acting was great throughout - with the exception of some of the child actors and Emma. I think I would have given it a higher rating if I had been more convinced by Debra Winger's character. Perhaps it was the portrayal, or perhaps the portrayal was great and I simply didn't like the character, either way, I think Emma was my least favorite character even though she is the leading character. The worst part about her was her laugh - it drove me nuts. But, for some people that is probably be the best part about the movie.
Overall, the movie really is very well done. The story is simple and plausible and entertaining. It leaves you with the feeling that this really could happen, and, more poignantly, really does happen. People die, people cheat on their spouses, and people are not always nice. Life is like that.
Movie Review: COMING TO TERMS WITH PARAMOUNT DVD!
Summary: 4 Stars
By all accounts Debra Winger wasn't easy to get along with either on or off the set. But before she disappeared from Hollywood she proved that she was, among other things, one hell of a good actress. In ?Terms of Endearment? she plays Emma, a newlywed, stricken with cancer and forced to grapple with the antics of her philandering husband, Flap (Jeff Daniels). The film is a potpourri of finely wrought performances and it really gets to the heart of the oddly confrontational relationship between a mother and daughter. On this occasion Emma?s mother, Aurora Greenwood is played by Shirley MacLaine. As the grieving, scheming, ultra-concerned, overly protective and manipulative mother, MacLaine is superb. It's really no wonder or surprise that she took home the Oscar for this performance. Jack Nicholson costars as has been astronaut, Garrett Breedlove, known more for his roving eye and noncommittal, devil-may-care attitude toward the ladies than his prowess in the cockpit. His love/hate stance with Aurora blossoms into a genuinely poignant relationship as the film progresses. Danny Devito also appears in a cameo as one of Aurora?s potential suitors.Paramount Home Video has issued this movie in anamorphic widescreen. Colors are well balanced, though details get lost in darker scenes. The characteristic of the picture, overall, is one of dated 80s quality with film grain, grit and some smearing of colors and fading of fine details. Still, it's free of pixelization, edge enhancement and shimmering artifacts. The sound is flat but nicely restored. There are no extras.
BOTTOM LINE: GREAT MOVIE! GOOD BUY! SOME WORK LEFT TO BE DONE OVER AT THE 'MOUTAIN'!