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Terms of Endearment (1983)

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

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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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$8,000,000 (estimated)

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$108,423,489 (USA)
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John Lithgow was called in to replace another actor and his part was filmed in only three days during a break from filming for Footloose (1984). See more »

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When Emma is standing outside the restaurant in front of the Statue of Liberty, the area behind her is obviously a set, as the city background is very distorted from what a background in the city would really look like. See more »

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Garrett Breedlove: I like the lights on.
Aurora Greenway: Then go home and turn them on.
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Referenced in Roseanne: Terms of Estrangement: Part 1 (1992) See more »

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That Old Black Magic
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Quite good, but overrated
24 March 1999 | by (North Bay, Ontario) – See all my reviews

After looking forward to seeing this film for many years, I finally have watched it, and was left a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but I expected so very much more. I found the plot to be rather thin for a movie this long, and after some thought, I'd have to say that the script was average at best. With a weaker cast, I suspect that I wouldn't have even liked it. Fortunately, this film is blessed with a spectacular cast, and this film deservedly received Oscar recognition in the acting categories. It just didn't deserve the best picture Oscar that it also won.


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