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)
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Storyline
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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
Another near perfect blending of the smile and the tear...
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT is an undeniably gripping and emotional film experience that will have you rolling on the floor during one scene and weeping uncontrollably during the next. This film follows the complicated relationship between an icy, Texan widow named Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine)and her slightly-off-the-wall daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), who at the beginning of the film is marrying a man named Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels), whom her mother clearly hates, seemingly just to get away from her. The film follows Emma's marriage through three children, infidelity, and unexpected tragedy but it never lets go of the unspoken bond between Aurora and Emma...a bond so strong that it transcends telephone lines, geography, and even dialogue at times...there are moments in the story where you see Aurora and Emma communicate without saying a word to each other. Writer-director James L. Brooks won a pair of Oscars for writing and directing this funny and heartbreaking story that stretches over a long period of time but never fails to hold interest and trust me, the last 20-30 minutes of this film will have you weeping. Shirley MacLaine finally won her long-overdue Best Actress Oscar for her controlled performance as Aurora and Jack Nicholson won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as a retired astronaut who moves in next door to Aurora after Emma moves out and begins a hilarious and touching relationship with Aurora. Debra Winger is explosive and unpredictable as Emma and Jeff Daniels is fully invested in the unsympathetic role of Flap. A truly unique motion picture experience that will leave you limp.
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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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