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Terms of Endearment is a 1983 drama comedy film, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson.
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60 of 191 · most liked firstIsn’t it wild how Terms Of Endearment was the second highest grossing movie of 1983? Like the only thing that made more than it that year was Return Of The Jedi
neutral · AI labelView post →Ella McCay is a visible mess that includes one of the worst I'm-back-for-the-reshoot wigs in film history but the thing is, James L. Brooks has not one but four lifetime passes (MTM, Simpsons, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News), so maybe you will watch this some night and remember those and smile.
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Age of Hollywood star Shirley MacLaine celebrates birthday, 4/24/34. Legend! Won Oscar, Emmy, 6 Golden Globes, 2 BAFTAs in incredible film legacy. 6 Oscar nods: 58 Some Came Running 60 Apartment 63 Irma la Douce 75 best doc short 📖🎬 77 Turning Point 83 Terms of Endearment (w) #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →June 3, 1984: CBS reports that Jack Nicholson flew from Boston to Los Angeles on the same commercial flight as the Boston Celtics after Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The in-flight movie was Terms of Endearment, starring Nicholson—seen here, courtside, smoking a cigarette at 0:14:
neutral · AI labelView post →For movie night the first movie is Terms of Endearment. I love this movie and always tell people who haven’t seen it that it’s not what you think (well at least until the very end, then it kinda is)
positive · AI labelView post →Fave 1st watches of March Totally Fucked Up (1993) Mickey 17 (2025) Rats! (2025) Black Bag (2025) Dim Sum (1985) Running on Karma (2003) The Valiant Ones (1975) Tattooed Life (1965) Terms of Endearment (1983) The Sword (1980) The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Only one King... Happy Bday, Jack Nicholson 4/22/37 12 Oscar nods: 69 Easy Rider 70 Five Easy Pieces 73 Last Detail 74 Chinatown 75 One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest (w) 81 Reds 83 Terms of Endearment (w) 85 Prizzi's Honor 87 Ironweed 92 Few Good Men 97 As Good As It Gets (w) 02 About Schmidt #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →My last four for Friday: War Of The Worlds (2005) Terms Of Endearment (1983) The Parallax View (1974) Cinderella Liberty (1973) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Age of Hollywood star Shirley MacLaine celebrates birthday, 4/24/34. Legend! Won Oscar, Emmy, 6 Golden Globes, 2 BAFTAs in incredible film legacy. 6 Oscar nods: 58 Some Came Running 60 Apartment 63 Irma la Douce 75 best doc short 📖🎬 77 Turning Point 83 Terms of Endearment (w) #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 24 April 1934, actress Shirley MacLaine. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed and eccentric women and a six-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama film Terms of Endearment (1983). #ShirleyMacLaine
neutral · AI labelView post →Only one King... Happy Bday, Jack Nicholson 4/22/37 12 Oscar nods: 69 Easy Rider 70 Five Easy Pieces 73 Last Detail 74 Chinatown 75 One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest (w) 81 Reds 83 Terms of Endearment (w) 85 Prizzi's Honor 87 Ironweed 92 Few Good Men 97 As Good As It Gets (w) 02 About Schmidt #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →for whatever reason my dad fucking loves this movie and whenever he's in Houston visiting me he's like "by the way we're near the Terms of Endearment House"
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983). Director: James L. Brooks. Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger. Brooks' Oscar-winner is masterpiece of tone. At once, soapy, outrageously funny, and emotionally authentic...not an easy balancing act. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →June 3, 1984: CBS reports that Jack Nicholson flew from Boston to Los Angeles on the same commercial flight as the Boston Celtics after Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The in-flight movie was Terms of Endearment, starring Nicholson—seen here, courtside, smoking a cigarette at 0:14:
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997). Director: James L. Brooks. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt. In my world, Brooks' TERMS OF ENDEARMENT & BROADCAST NEWS are pitch perfect. This follow-up always felt more cartoonish to me. Let's see if my mind has changed. Nicholson & Hunt won Oscars. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a better chance of me walking on the moon yesterday. In the words of Jack Nicholson in the movie Terms of Endearment, after his abysmal date with Shirley McLaine, when she invites him in for a drink. He answers, “I would rather stick needles in my eyes.”
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 20 Movie makes me cry Terms of Endearment youtu.be/sSY3YUrdSJI?... This tragicomedy hurts SO good. Great story, great performances, not the least sappy. I've thoroughly enjoyed every bit of every re-watch, even though I always get teary. 😏
positive · AI labelView post →I was born in 1980... I'm choosing one movie per day from each year to today. Terms of Endearment… this movie makes everyone cry… but, it’s soooo worth it. Follow it up with The Evening Star… you won’t regret it. #filmsky #moviesky #moviechallenge 4 of 45 1983
positive · AI labelView post →11 non-horror movies to get to know me: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Terms of Endearment The North Avenue Irregulars Synecdoche, New York Tommy Making Love The Muppet Movie Original Cast Album: Company Mildred Pierce Barbie Longtime Companion
neutral · AI labelView post →Burt Reynolds was originally offered the role of the retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove in the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. Director James L. Brooks specifically wrote the part with Reynolds in mind, but Reynolds turned it down to star in the racing comedy Stroker Ace instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1980s. Shirley MacLaine, Aurora Greenway, "Terms of Endearment" (directed by James L. Brooks). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #shirleymaclaine #jameslbrooks #termsofendearment
positive · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day 29 - Someone Taking Medicine in a Movie Terms of Endearment
neutral · AI labelView post →If TCM has a sense of humor they will get Ben & Mario to film an intro/ outro for Fort Apache ...and run that whenever they do the make-good on Terms of Endearment #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Taking a Junesploitation break to rewatch TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and I’m still of the mind it’s James L. Brooks’ 2nd best movie, the kind of thing that doesn’t get made anymore
positive · AI labelView post →Disney+has released a list of essential movies to watch before Avengers:DOOMSDAY -Mystery Men -Hero At Large -Meteor Man -Blank Man -Toxic Avenger -Orgazmo -The Lego Batman Movie -Chronicle -Hancock -Unbreakable -Terms Of Endearment
neutral · AI labelView post →Directed by James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment premiered across the U.S. on this date in 1983. The tear-jerker claimed the Oscar for Best Picture. The movie had massive star power: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow & Danny DeVito.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Day 4 Cashier or Grocery Checker in a movie Terms Of Endearment (1983) The movie was filmed in Nebraska. This scene's punchline played well in my home state. youtu.be/MLZrV8M7blU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm traveling, so missed posting my #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched on time. As you can see, half of these are from the Criterion Channel 90s Soundtrack collection. OVERLORD is also from CC, with several extras. My little local film club enjoyed TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, which holds up well.
positive · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge Day 20 Astronaut in a movie Terms Of Endearment (1983)
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge Day 16 Film that makes you cry Terms Of Endearment (1983)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1980s: 1980 - 9 to 5 1981 - Superman II 1982 - Grease 2 1983 - Terms of Endearment 1984 - The Muppets Take Manhattan 1985 - Clue 1986 - Little Shop of Horrors 1987 - Outrageous Fortune 1988 - Big Business 1989 - Troop Beverly Hills
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t remember Shirley Temple and John Wayne in Terms of Endearment. And is that Henry Fonda?? What movie is this? 🤨 #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, and Jeff Daniels, premiered in NYC on November 20, 1983. Among accomplishments, this movie marked the 1st time an actor portraying a character named Aurora took Oscar.
neutral · AI labelView post →At the 1984 Academy Awards the following April, Jane Alexander, who movingly portrayed mother Carol Wetherly, competed for Best Actress with Shirley MacLaine (“Terms of Endearment”), Debra Winger (“Terms of Endearment”), Meryl Streep (“Silkwood”), and Julie Walters (“Educating Rita”). MacLaine won.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw Terms of Endearment for the first time and no movie has made me feel more “we used to be a country.”
positive · AI labelView post →Forget TERMS OF ENDEARMENT; if there's anything that I like it's a FAST AND FURIOUS movie that makes me cry. deadline.com/2026/08/vin-...
neutral · AI labelView post →For @omacolt.bsky.social and #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 2: Movie set or filmed in Texas... Terms of Endearment (1983) was filmed in Houston weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie you’ve seen four or more times. What were you expecting? Terms of Endearment?
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day I discovered that Jack Nicholson was 5 years younger than I am right now for the movie The Witches of Eastwick. And 9 years younger than I am now for Terms of Endearment.
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters (GIFs in reply). 3/20 #filmsky #filmchallenge #films 📽🎥🎬 Terms of Endearment
neutral · AI labelView post →Heartfelt sympathies to the family & friends of former child actor George Miller “Huckleberry” Fox, who played the youngest son of Debra Winger and Jeff Daniels in Terms of Endearment. Anyone who saw the film knows he stole every scene he was in. www.richardamselmovie.com/single-post/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I have been informed by the wonderful @thesix.bsky.social .social that it is, in fact, Shirley MacLaine accepting an Oscar for Terms of Endearment, which is a fabulous movie.
positive · AI labelView post →For @omacolt.bsky.social ... catch-up Friday for #OctoberMovieChallenge... #Filmsky #Moviesky #TVsky.. Cashier in a movie... Terms of Endearment... Debra Winger has money problems and so problems with a cashier when it's time to pay... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1980s 1980: The Shining 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: E.T. the Extraterrestrial 1983: Terms of Endearment 1984: Terminator 1985: Clue 1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (what a year for movies!) 1987: The Princess Bride 1988: Heathers 1989: The Abyss
neutral · AI labelView post →Out now on the podcast, we review the James L. Brooks classic "Terms Of Endearment" which stars Albert Brooks off screen in the opening scene of the movie, then he's dead in the following scene. Good thing that the rest of the movie is pretty dang great!
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge (May) #MovieSky #Filmsky #nightflight May 30 Movie character who is a mother of three children Terms of Endearment (1983)
neutral · AI labelView post →We did a similar thing when like a couple of us went out to rent the movie for the night and we came back with Terms of Endearment but by the end of THAT fucker I was sobbing I actually love that movie
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite #JackNicholson film is As Good as It Gets (1997). Both leads won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Nicholson) and Best Actress (Helen Hunt). Only 7 films have won both. Nicholson has won 3: Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment,
neutral · AI labelView post →THE EVENING STAR fascinates me. A legacyquel to a family drama, ~15 years after the original: the excellent, multi-Oscar-winning TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, not the kind of film they make sequels for. What other families do we wanna check up on? I am wondering how these guys are doing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thoughts on the sequel to Terms of Endearment … The Evening Star (1997) weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Terms of Endearment because it's supposedly famously melodramatic. Why is everyone in this movie so horrible/creepy. John Lithgow has such an innocent and smooth face though E: how was this such a popular movie, so much schlock. I hate almost everyone in this. So manipulative! What a sign of changed morals...
negative · AI labelView post →As much as I hate to speak ill of my favorite (Criterion Channel) the thumbnail image for the Shirley MacLaine collection lists Terms of Endearment and that film is NOT currently showing on Criterion* *this doesn't actually matter so much because I own a copy but like what if there'd been EXTRAS
positive · AI labelView post →My fav film from each year of the 1980s: 1980- Empire Strikes Back 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 - Tootsie 1983 - Terms of Endearment 1984 - The Terminator tie Ghostbusters 1985 - The Breakfast Club 1986 - Aliens 1987 - Raising Arizona 1988 - Mississippi Burning 1989 - When Harry Met Sally
neutral · AI labelView post →Jeff Daniels - 📽️ Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983) Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson won Oscars; Debra Winger and John Lithgow were nominated. Daniels was deserving too as the other major role, Professor Flap Horton. He has a tender, subtle redemption and killer chemistry with Winger.
neutral · AI labelView post →www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ell... Beloved ‘Terms of Endearment’ Director James L. Brooks Delivers Epic Flop With ‘Ella McCay’
neutral · AI labelView post →This looks fun. A James L Brooks (BROADCAST NEWS, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT film , with Emma Brooks , Jamie Lee Curtis ,Woody Harrelson ,Kumail Nanjiani, and Albert Brooks . I hope that it does well this Christmas season youtu.be/vRE6Iobir8k?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just incredible This is the work of an old auteur & in film an authorial voice often gets lost when they get older But here pretty much from the first lines he’s back. You feel Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Early Simpsons For those who love James L Brooks, it’s “Welcome home”
positive · AI labelView post →The individual elements of the movie “Terms of Endearment” that make it a masterpiece: the dialogue (with specific quotes from characters), the interplay between Aurora and Flap, the small cinematic elements that shape the tones of scenes + underscore the range of emotions the characters express.
neutral · AI labelView post →To quote Jack Nicholson from a line in a movie, “I’d rather stick needles in my eyes”… from “Terms of Endearment”
neutral · AI labelView post →The NO1 movie on Sunday, January 1st 1984 was: Terms of Endearment... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/f...
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