Terms of Endearment

Buy This Item Terms of Endearment by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-16-2008     Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (<I>As Good As It Gets</I>). 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. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine is considered a tearjerker and wonderful epic but I hate to say that statement isn't what I think as well. Although MacLaine's performace is almost flawless, it's Debra Winger who has an unlikable and disconnected performance, I can't stand to watch her in this movie, she makes it unbearable to feel sympathy for her. The relationship between mother and daughter is strained and even though they fight, in the end they do deeply love each other. This movie has a lot of uneven moments, it's too long and cliched. People love this movie but for me, it's just ok.

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