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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 61987
Released: August 5, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Terms of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable insightful story of two captivating people mother and daughter unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year relationship. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbor a boozy womanizing former astronaut. Winner of five Academy Awards®: Best Picture 1983; Best Actress Shirley MacLaine; Best Supporting Actor Jack Nicholson; Best Director and Best Screenplay Adaptation James L. Brooks.System Requirements:Running Time: 131 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 097361381244 Manufacturer No: 138124
Description of Terms of Endearment:
Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets). Nevertheless, it is entirely winning, with Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger playing a combative mother and daughter who see each other through various ups and downs in love and loss, and most especially through a terminal illness endured by Winger's character. Jack Nicholson deservedly won an Oscar for his supporting role as a free-spirited astronaut who backs away from a romance with MacLaine and then returns in the clutch. As he always does, Brooks keeps things from getting too soapy with his intense concentration on the soulful evolution of his characters. --Tom Keogh
Terms of Endearment Reviews:
Good to watch for many reasons 
2009-10-02 - This movie has phenomenal acting from four lead actors and actresses, a thing that is hard to find in almost any movie. Jack Nicholson is hilarious, he plays his role to perfection, expect his same old acting, but on a slightly higher scale, his Oscar was deserved. Jeff Daniel shines from start to finish, at the end his silence and staring says more than words ever could, great. Debra Winger is the main character, she is great at the beginning and holds her own the entire movie. Shirley MacLaine is probably the greatest character in this movie, she can be funny, serious, annoying, undesirable, desirable, and cruel. This is a good movie to watch, it could inspire a few people on how to make movies, what you would have done differently and such, a lot to learn from this picture. Rent it, you will not be dissapointed.
Weepiest chick flick ever 
2009-05-31 - This is the ultimate weepy chick flick. I have always disliked Debora Winger, and this flick is most of the reason. Even Jack Nicholson could not save this bomb. Despite what amounts to an all-star cast, this one is destined to live in infamy. This is a terrible movie.
A gal I was dating dragged me to this flick decades ago. I never forgave her and rightly not. The only movie I've ever seen that was worse than this one was "Yentl" which the same woman inveigled me into seeing. A worse bomb than Yentl has never graced the Silver Screen, but TOD comes close enough. Ghastly.
A Classic
2009-05-06 - What can you say...This is a classic. Buy it with the second chapter, "The Evening Star" And you have 4 hours of laughter and tears. Do yourself a favor and buy both, you wont be sorry.
Terms of Endearment CD
2009-04-25 - Received the CD in very short time and in excellent condition! Thank you Amazon once again for helping me find what I was looking for!
a Fan *+#<*%g Tastic Film!
2009-02-25 - Just as good now, or even better than when we first saw it way back when.
