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Terms of Endearment

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Terms of Endearment

1983

James L. Brooks

Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito ...

6.8

21,715

Drama. Comedy An account of the complex and difficult relationship between a mother (Shirley MacLaine) and a daughter (Debra Winger) as they face life's challenges over three decades.

	Author	Review
United States	James Harwood Variety	"Enormously enjoyable (...) adding bite and sparkle when sentiment and seamlessness threatens to sink other parts of the picture."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A funny, touching, beautifully acted film that covers more territory than it can easily manage."	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"[An] utterly captivating movie that (...) dares to deal with the joys and frustrations of maintaining a mother-and-daughter relationship at a time when the average Hollywood movie is concerned mostly with over wrought computers."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The most remarkable achievement of 'Terms of Endearment', which is filled with great achievements, is its ability to find the balance between the funny and the sad (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A tear-jerking ending that would make Freud cringe"	NEG
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"No-wonder Jack was so keen to land this role. It was simply perfect for him (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Pirie Time Out	"This ambles along quite amusingly but unremarkably (...) The emotional wipe-out is impressive, confirming Winger as one of the major stars of the '80s. But it also unbalances the film"	NEU
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"The writing secret revealed here is to leave enough wordless passages so that the actors have time simply to be their characters (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"This is American mainstream movie-making at its best (...) [Brooks] largely succeeds in keeping sentiment the right side of mawkish in this story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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