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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: TERMS...why so great? (SPOILER)
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 01:33:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 01:33:05 1984
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I agree -- this movie was just `OK', a few good laughs, but little
character development.  It was never clear to me if Flap really was
having an affair or this woman was just following him around a lot.

Also the joking around seemed to relieve us of having to deal with
peoples' feelings, which I think was a cop-out.

Another disturbing thing was Flap's just handing over his baby to
his wife as if that were that -- did he really not care about the
child or what?

The death scene was a mixed-bag.  I felt the mother's (Shirley MacLaine)
line "I thought I'd feel better when she died but I don't" (or something
to that effect) most touching, but the melodrama elsewhere put me off.
The daughter waves bye-bye (or was she reaching for Flap?) and then
appears to drift off to sleep.  Pure Hollywood.  Terminal cancer patients
don't usually die nice calm deaths -- it's sometimes awful to watch --
but this is pretty lightweight film anyway.

See `Silkwood' instead.