This DVD item from Paramount was reviewed on 24-Mar-2009.
Terms of Endearment Reference DVD. Classifications : General Comedy Genres DVD Video James L. Brooks Comedy Directors Comedy Genres DVD Video General Drama Genres DVD Video 4-for-3 Comedy 4-for-3 DVD Custom Stores Specialty Stores DVD Video 4-for-3 Dram . Click the following link to view the cover of Terms of Endearment. Related topics: 1983-11-23. General. Comedy. Genres. DVD. Video. James L. Brooks. Comedy Directors. Comedy. Genres. DVD. requestid: f465f478-26c9-4cfc-b35e-a02d34d82d74
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1) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. Just as good now, or even better than when we first saw it way back when.¤ 2) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. This one was a real tear jerker. But in order to get to the tears, we had to get to really know the characters and like them.
James L Brooks´ screenplay did just that. Based on the wonderful novel by Larry McMurtry, the screenplay condensed it for the screen and Mr Brooks´ direction delivered it beautifully to the screen.
A lifelong relationship between a mother and her daughter is depicted.
Giving us their great talents as actors are Shirley MacLaine as Aurora, Debra Winger as her daughter, Jack Nicholson, as Aurora´s neighbor boyfriend, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow.
The direction, the music, the photography were all perfect.¤ 3) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. I swear, this is the movie that makes me cry the most. Every single time I see this, no matter how many times i´ve seen it, it always, always, always makes me cry. This movie is the biggest tear fest on the planet. Anyone who could get through this movie without crying (heaven forbid) is probably the strongest tear holder in the world!!!¤ 4) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. I have always enjoyed this film.
What made the film for me were the characters & performance BOTHER OSCAR WINNERS FOR Shirley as Aurora & Jack as Garrett.
Winger & Daniels characters I just hated. Why did she stay with him after the cheating? His cheating made it OK for her to cheat with John Lithgow´s character? 2 wrongs do NOT make a right.
The oldest son Tommy. It took till near the end with him walking out of the hospital with his grandmother till an adult stood up to him for his behavior. Parents NEVER did a thing about it.
Danny De Vito & his small part. Never did figure out why he was with the family when Emma was in the hospital near the end of the film. His character did NOTHING.
Still a good film after the passage of time. Although, does not have the impact it did when released.
As for the DVD package.
SO LACKING & BAD. A CD with 4 songs-2 I know & like the others I have never heard of before do NOT make up for what else is NOT included.
There is NO brochure/pamphlet inside, any sort of information on the film. Film makers, this was a big hit & Best Picture winner for 1983. NO DELETED SCENES OR BLOOPERS. Nothing. No chapter search list.
AND, THESE HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE DVD CASES WITH THE 2 UNNECESSARY LITTLE FLAPS.
¤ 5) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. I generally leave this type of tear-jerker to my mother, and I honestly had no real desire to ever watch it. So, when I was roped into seeing this film and found myself actually caring about what happens to the characters, I was pleasantly surprised. The performances, especially Shirley MacLaine´s, are very emotionally charged, yet believable. I found myself really liking and really disliking each character in turn, but that´s what makes them real. The plot bounces right along and the film is all-together very watchable (even for a seasoned chick-flick hater such as myself). Larry McMurtry always had a penchant for entertaining story-telling, and this movie is no exception. The only character I had trouble believing was Garrett Breedlove. As much as I respect Jack Nicholson´s ability, not even he could make his corny antics work. Garrett the astronaut stuck out like a sore--albeit sometimes amusing--thumb among all the other "ordinary" people. Nicholson did what he could with it, but the subplot itself just seemed like it belonged in a different movie. All in all, a good flick, even if you typically don´t go in for movies that try to evoke the full gamut of human emotion in two hours flat.¤ 6) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. The story of a mother and daughter and their relationship over a thirty-year time span.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 29-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD¤ 7) DVD DVD Terms of Endearment by Paramount. 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¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 21-Apr-2009, 079217156X094632192929, 126-KKB-F6B-FAB-FDB-7DB-JKB-ASB-8 
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