Terms of Endearment (Widescreen): Amazon.ca: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart Carroll, Betty King, Huckleberry Fox, Troy Bishop, Shane Serwin, Megan Morris, Andrzej Bartkowiak, James L. Brooks, Richard Marks, Martin Jurow, Penney Finkelman Cox, Larry McMurtry: DVD

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Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets). 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. --Tom Keogh

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best movies ever, Jan 4 2010

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Robyn McIntyre (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This movie is older, but they don't make them like this these days. It's laugh out loud funny & an entire tissue box tear-jerker. Shirley MacLaine is pricelessly perfect in this unforgettable role. Buy it, buy, it, buy it! You won't regret it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat cold, but still wonderful., May 14 2004

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Ryne Williams (Cleveland, TN USA) - See all my reviews

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I saw this movie after I had seen Steel Magnolias, and to be honest it did not impress me as much as Steel Magnolias did. They are both classics in the film world, but I found Magnolias better and more heartwarming. Shirley Maclaine did a wonderful job acting in this film as the troubled mother of a sickly daughter. The movie comes together in the end but at some points the movie lacked that sense of heart and home that Steel Magnolias had. See it and make the judgment for yourself. I do reccomend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tear-jerker, Dec 24 2003

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Peggy Vincent "author and reader" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews
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Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger play mother and daughter who are alternately at love and war with each other as they go on the roller-coaster of life. On a routine visit to the pediatrician for one of her sons, Winger's doc is more interested in her swollen glands than he is in her son's ear ache - and the next thing we know, Winger's diagnosed with a terminal illness. The pathos is well played, and I challenge anyone to emerge dry-eyed from the scene in which she says good-bye to her sons, esp to the one who is so angry and uncommunicative.
Everyone comes thru in the end, including the lumpish ex-husband, and Jack Nicholson, playing a free-spirited astronaut who is MacLaine's love interest, deservedly won an Oscar for this performance.
Excellent book by McMurtry; great movie by James L. Brooks.

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