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From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Terms of Endearment (no spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 18:08:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 18:08:55 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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I am surprised no one has reviewed "Terms of Endearment" here, but I will
take a stab at it. (Not a stab at the movie, a stab at a review. :-) )
Both Shirley MacLaine as Aurora and Debra Winger as Emma, her daughter brought
a remarkable amount of energy to this film.  The film depicts the relationship
between a mother and daughter as they grow (together + apart)+ as friends
(I use formal language theory notation because they go back and forth a number
of times greater than one, and I won't tell you where they end up because
I have been bothered by other reviews which describe the movie any further.)
Trust me, it is interesting to watch these two believable characters develop.
You will laugh, and at times you might cry.  (I cry at a lot of movies, and
I laughed about ten times more than I cried during this one.  Could that be
a new rating of movies: laugh to cry ratio? :-) )  Jack Nicholson does a sexy
job of portraying a decadent ex-astronaut.  I guess what I liked so much about
this movie is that I believed that every character was real and that they
reacted as I expected they would when confronted with a situation.  I wouldn't
be surprised if this movie took a number of Academy awards particularly for
best actress (I think Debra Winger should get it), best supporting actor (or do
you consider Nicholson to be a best actor?), and best motion picture.  Warning:
I saw this with my father and my sister.  Although my father thought it was a
fine movie, my sister and I seemed to enjoy it more than he did. A 'must-see.'
-- 
Beth Katz at Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Dept. of Computer Science
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