Terms of Endearment 1983 Watch Free in HD

The film covers 30 years of the relationship between hard-to-please Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger) as Aurora is looking for love while Emma has her own marriage problems.

Genre:

Drama, Comedy

Actors:

Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart Carroll, Betty King, Huckleberry Fox, Troy Bishop, Shane Serwin, ...»

Director:

James L. Brooks

Country:

United States

Release:

1983

IMDb:

7.4

Quality:

Duration:

132 min

TIME Magazine

Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

February 20, 2009

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Common Sense Media

Glossy, funny, and packs a real emotional wallop.

January 02, 2011

People Magazine

In his directorial debut, Brooks proves himself a master with actors.

January 10, 2014

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Chicago Tribune

Terms of Endearment is about three relationships and students of screenwriting would do well to study the way in which these three stories are told completely and effortlessly in a movie of average length.

January 18, 2013

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Radio Times

This is American mainstream movie-making at its best.

February 22, 2013

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Time Out

Then The Illness strikes, and the film changes gear completely, pulling out all the stops and almost incidentally delivering one of the best-acted, most moving death-bed scenes in recent memory.

June 24, 2006

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Christian Science Monitor

There's not enough substance to support the sentiment of this longish comedy-drama.

February 22, 2013

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Variety

Brooks' dialog is wonderful throughout and all the characters carry off their assignments beautifully, even down to Danny De Vito and Norman Bennett as MacLaine's other suffering suitors.

February 20, 2008

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Chicago Reader

[Writer-director James L. Brooks] has television in his soul: his people are incredibly tiny (most are defined by a single stroke of obsessive behavior), and he chokes out his narrative in ten-minute chunks, separated by aching lacunae.

December 17, 2006

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The tragi-comedy never made me reach for my hankie, never tickled my funny bone and it never found a way into my heart.

March 16, 2008

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Total Film

Its soppy story is freed from cheap tear-jerking by Brooks' confident direction, Larry McMurtry's poignant script and a flawless ensemble.

January 10, 2014

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New York Daily News

It takes all of perhaps five minutes to fall in love with the leading characters in Terms of Endearment and from that point on, the audience is just putty in the extremely capable hands of writer-director James L. Brooks.

February 22, 2015

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