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Film · 1983 · Romantic drama
Terms of Endearment
Directed by James L. Brooks
1983
★ 5.4 editorial score
A mother and daughter argue on the telephone across three decades, and James L. Brooks makes it enormous: nobody else has moved this fluently between a joke and a gut punch.
“"Terms of Endearment" is a funny, touching, beautifully acted film that covers more territory than it can easily manage. It's the 30- year saga of a mother and daughter; the story of a charmingly eccentric woman who, in her 50's, finally permits herself to fall in love; and the chronicle of a troubled marriage between a young professor and his whimsical bride.”
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1983Depicts 1980s
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