Terms of Endearment (1983) 4K Restoration
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Director: James L. Brooks Run Time: 133 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1983
Starring: Danny DeVito, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Shirley MacLaine
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay.
Widow Aurora Greenway and her daughter, Emma, have a strong bond, but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton against her mother’s wishes. When the marriage grows sour due to Flap’s cheating, Emma eventually splits from him, returning to her mother, who is involved with a former astronaut. Soon, Emma learns that she has terminal cancer. In the hospital, supported by Aurora, she tries to make peace with Flap and her children.
“The most remarkable achievement of Terms of Endearment, which is filled with great achievements, is its ability to find the balance between the funny and the sad, between moments of deep truth and other moments of high ridiculousness.”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
About the filmmaker:
James L. Brooks is a writer, director, and producer who has has won three Academy Awards, received eight Academy Award nominations, and won fifteen Emmy Awards during his long and prolific career. He began his career working in television as a writer on shows like The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons before creating the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970, and in 1990 he created The Simpsons with animator Matt Groening. Brooks’ directorial debut, Terms of Endearment (1983), was a hit with critics and audiences; the film earned 11 Academy Award nominations and five wins in 1984, including the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay. His following films were met with similar success—his sophomore film Broadcast News (1987) received seven Academy Award nominations and As Good as It Gets (1997) earned seven Academy Award nominations and won two.
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