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Terms of Endearment

Movie (1983)

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.

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Released:	Nov 20th, 1983
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Terms of Endearment Main Cast

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Shirley MacLaine
plays Aurora Greenway

Debra Winger
plays Emma Horton

Jack Nicholson
plays Garrett Breedlove

Danny DeVito
plays Vernon Dahlart

Jeff Daniels
plays Flap Horton

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Debra Winger behaved erratically on the set of this film because she was trying to get over a severe cocaine addiction. At one point, she and Shirley MacLaine got into a shoving match.
Jodie Foster turned down the role of Emma Horton, due to her commitment at Yale.
Although not specifically stated, the bulk of the story takes place over a span of several years during the late 1970s (a 1979 wall calendar is visible midway through the movie). Interestingly, as the character Garrett is an astronaut, this particular time period was exactly when his services would be least needed by NASA. The final Apollo mission was in 1975 and there would not be another manned spaceflight until the first Space Shuttle mission in 1981.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Garret's glasses during one conversation with Aurora.

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Movie Series/Collection

1983
- Terms of Endearment

1996
- The Evening Star