Terms of Endearment
Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms.
Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms.
Comedy, Drama
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1983
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Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
132 min
Release date:
20 Nov 1983
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$108,423,749
Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. 32 wins & 18 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It takes all of perhaps five minutes to fall in love with the leading characters in Terms of Endearment and from that point on, the audience is just putty in the extremely capable hands of writer-director James L. Brooks.
– Kathleen Carroll,
New York Daily News,
22 Feb 2015
fresh:
Terms of Endearment is about three relationships and students of screenwriting would do well to study the way in which these three stories are told completely and effortlessly in a movie of average length.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan 2013
fresh:
Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
20 Feb 2009
fresh:
Brooks' dialog is wonderful throughout and all the characters carry off their assignments beautifully, even down to Danny De Vito and Norman Bennett as MacLaine's other suffering suitors.
– James Harwood,
Variety,
20 Feb 2008
rotten:
[Writer-director James L. Brooks] has television in his soul: his people are incredibly tiny (most are defined by a single stroke of obsessive behavior), and he chokes out his narrative in ten-minute chunks, separated by aching lacunae.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
17 Dec 2006