Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
- Won 5 Oscars
- 32 wins & 22 nominations total
Betty King
- Rosie Dunlop
- (as Betty R. King)
- Director
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- TriviaDebra Winger behaved erratically on the set because she was fighting severe cocaine addiction. At one point, she and Shirley MacLaine got into a shoving match.
- GoofsDuring the opening credits, set in the 1950s, a 1980s station wagon is parked in a driveway in the background.
- Quotes
Aurora Greenway: Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?
Garrett Breedlove: I was just inches from a clean getaway.
- SoundtracksAnything Goes
By Cole Porter
Performed by Ethel Merman
Produced by Jule Styne (uncredited)
Orchestrated by Buddy Bregman (uncredited) and Nelson Riddle (uncredited)
Courtesy of National Broadcasting Company
Featured review
I've heard many good things about James L. Brooks's 'Terms of Endearment' and finally I decided to give it ago. Honestly speaking I was expecting a typical melodramatic tearjerker that's sole aim is to emotionally manipulate the viewer. I was wrong. 'Terms of Endearment' is a slice of life that centres around a mother, her daughter and their respective lives. The film looks very authentic. The sets, makeup, costumes and art direction look genuine.
This is very much a character driven film. The dialogues are full of humour and wit but what's also striking is how deeply layered the words are. While the visuals are quite simplistic it's the characters that shine especially through the actors' natural performances. Their excellent non-verbal gestures, spot on line delivery and restrained performances are superb.
A sassy Shirley Maclaine and bubbly Debra Winger are spellbinding. Both actresses beautifully carry the film and they are brilliantly supported by fine actors like Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.
What particularly appealed to me about 'Terms of Endearment' is the depiction of the mother-daughter relationship and the dynamic of it. It definitely has its ups and downs and it does not involve the use of clichéd lines like 'I love you' etc but at the same time the unconditional love between them is wonderfully conveyed.
This is very much a character driven film. The dialogues are full of humour and wit but what's also striking is how deeply layered the words are. While the visuals are quite simplistic it's the characters that shine especially through the actors' natural performances. Their excellent non-verbal gestures, spot on line delivery and restrained performances are superb.
A sassy Shirley Maclaine and bubbly Debra Winger are spellbinding. Both actresses beautifully carry the film and they are brilliantly supported by fine actors like Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.
What particularly appealed to me about 'Terms of Endearment' is the depiction of the mother-daughter relationship and the dynamic of it. It definitely has its ups and downs and it does not involve the use of clichéd lines like 'I love you' etc but at the same time the unconditional love between them is wonderfully conveyed.
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- Mar 5, 2012
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La fuerza del cariño
- Filming locations
- 3060 Locke Lane, Houston, Texas, USA(home where Aurora lived)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $108,423,489
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,498,813
- Nov 27, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $108,423,749
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