Terms of Endearment 1983 123movies

Watch: Terms of Endearment 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways..
Plot: 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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	7.4/10 Votes: 61,030
	81% | RottenTomatoes
	79/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 617 Popularity: 11.873 | TMDB

Reviews:

A little heavy, but with astonishing performances.
A well-observed, well-made drama (with occasional comedic moments), that may not be exactly “high art” (it’s neither profound nor original), but DOES feature some great acting and manages to pull you in.

Debra Winger gives an extraordinary performance; she has a naturalness and expressiveness that you rarely see on the screen. When her character is happy, her whole face brightens up and her joy becomes infectious; when she’s sad or confused or embarrassed, the emotions come across strongly, although she never goes over the top. Considering that she lost the Oscar to her co-star, Shirley MacLaine, who is reasonably good but far more one-note, I’d say we had a major Academy Award injustice there. Jack Nicholson is fun to watch and has some amusing lines, and most supporting roles, like those played by John Lithgow and Danny De Vito, are also first-rate and completely believable.

So overall it’s a good film, directed almost flawlessly, although in the final 20 minutes it needlessly wallows in melodrama. (***)

Take a whack at the steel magnolia that is Aurora.
When the film version of “Steel Magnolias” came out in 1989, there were plenty of people who must have commented on the similarities of that plot to “Terms of Endearment”, especially since Shirley MacLaine, after winning an Oscar for that film, took on a character supporting part with two time Oscar winning Sally Field taking over the role of the long-suffering mom. Fields’ M’Lynn is as far from Aurora Greenway as Debra Winger’s Emma is from Julia Roberts’ Shelby, but indeed, this is a film about the relationship of mothers and daughters that seems quite poignant in light of the recent Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds tragedy. MacLaine’s Aurora is really her first middle aged crank, moving from her eccentrics of the 1950’s and 60’s to what she would perfect as Ouiser Boudreaux. Aurora Greenway is a kinder, gentler version of Ouiser, but she’s no wimp and she’s probably even more uptight than Ouiser was. It will take a lot of drinks to kill the bug she has, and that comes thanks to the astronaut neighbor who annoys her at first with his drunken carousing but opens her up to a world of middle age sexual awakening when somehow he endears himself to her.

That astronaut is Jack Nicholson, played with brassy vigor and well deserving of another Oscar. Certainly, he’s fat and disgusting at times, but that’s the joy of his character; He knows he’s fat and disgusting, but he loves life and isn’t stopping for a moment of sobriety and chastity under any circumstance. MacLaine is first seen worrying over baby Emma, assured unsuccessfully by her husband that it hasn’t died of crib death, and MacLaine hardly mourns her husband without even a single tear. She tolerates Lisa Hart Carroll as Patsy, Emma’s best friend, but can’t stand Emma’s choice for a husband to be, the handsome but prankish Jeff Daniels who stands up to MacLaine with every nasty remark she dishes out. MacLaine’s Aurora is temperamental, but not without heart, and as the film unravels, she becomes a fascinating amalgamation of moods and personality traits.

As for Winger, it’s a very direct performance, and while MacLaine steals the film right out from under her, it is probably the real off screen animosity between the two that made them better. Dislike of any kind brings out passion, especially in actors, and in fact, they seem more like mother and daughter than Field and Roberts did in “Steel Magnolias”. That film was far more colorful and flamboyant with its ensemble cast of family and friends surrounding them, but “Terms” is quite direct. John Lithgow, coming off his flamboyant role as the transgendered ex-football player in “The World According to Garp”, is a pillar of quiet strength who helps Winger through some rough times involving Daniels’ infidelity as she helps him deal with his own inner storm surrounding his own wife who is unable to have sex.

MacLaine is of course best known for the “Give her the shot!” scene when the film takes its soap opera twist at the end, showing the strength that women have when it comes to dealing with family trauma and the undying loyalty they have for their children. It’s certainly as poignant as Fields’ “I wanna know why!” cry for understanding in “Steel Magnolias”, and perhaps the reason Fields did not get the Oscar nomination many (including myself) felt she deserved for that was that the memory of MacLaine in “Terms of Endearment” overshadowed her. This was recently re-written as an Off Broadway play (starring Molly Ringwald!) that in light of the movie’s less than stellar cult status seemed unnecessary to be done. I can’t get enough of the musical theme by Michael Gore, and indeed, the script and direction by Joseph Brooks is excellent. However, after much thought, I find that “Terms of Endearment” does not hold up as the Best Picture of 1983, although I couldn’t imagine anybody else winning an Oscar for Best Actress that year other than Shirley MacLaine.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 12 min (132 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 108423749
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director James L. Brooks
Writer Larry McMurtry, James L. Brooks
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Country United States
Awards Won 5 Oscars. 32 wins & 18 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Cameras by Panavision
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,600 m, 3,640 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm