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Terms of Endearment
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Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito View AllCrew
James L. Brooks (Screenplay), James L. Brooks (Director) View All
Release: Nov. 20th, 1983
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes
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I think what I found most upsetting about the film was the way that we watch the damaged dynamics of Aurora and Emmas relationship filter down into the relationship between Emma and her own children.

And I don't mean they are awful, as in, they are horrible people and I don't want to watch a movie that has horrible people in it.

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 (Aurora d....