FUCK ME!
I HATE to cry, I am using the word HATE here. Do not watch that movie! No, watch it. Like The Garden of Eden, you have to to feel. You have to read Garden and deal with it and you have to watch Endearment and cry and deal with it. I did not REMEMBER how it ended!
Debra Winger was the star. Absolutely the star. Shirley Maclane was magnificent.
Jack was Jack. Won or was nominated for Best Supporting actor in this movie. He was Jack, the greatest actor of our time.
I'm done, I'm not going to the end. I still have to re-read the elephant part from Garden. And look at the fucking time! See the movie. Or see it again as I did. This is real. This is the humanity for good and bad in us. Can you God bless a film? Well, God bless Terms of Endearment and everyone associated with making this amazing movie.
I HATE to cry, I am using the word HATE here. Do not watch that movie! No, watch it. Like The Garden of Eden, you have to to feel. You have to read Garden and deal with it and you have to watch Endearment and cry and deal with it. I did not REMEMBER how it ended!
Debra Winger was the star. Absolutely the star. Shirley Maclane was magnificent.
Jack was magnificent.
What an all-American personality Debra Winger had. God bless her.
Debra and Shirley Maclane hated each other on the set. I remember that. They had great chemistry when the director said Action! But they hated each other.
Jeff Daniels had the toughest role. A cold role. He played it with Texas and then mid-Western forebearance but it was a narcissistic role. His character Flap Gordon was the only one that went unredeemed. That's fucking tough.
The camera focuses on Debra for her exquisite reaction shots. GAWD that girl could act. She was the best actor in this movie FILLED with great actors. Look at that face. (Did my bug-up-her-ass prim and proper mother just say SEX was FUN-FUCKING-TASTIC!?
There are so many...endearing!, emotional, real frissons in this picture. This is one of them, when Shirley mentions in passing "I love you" and then walks back to her car after dropping Jack off at the airport.
There she goes. But she can't let that go! Tough broad, Shirley Maclane, tough broad character Aurora Greenway. God, the casting in this flick. It could not have been more perfect.
Here she comes back. Garrett!!
Come here! Jack: "Oh SHIT!"
Emma, her daughter, Debra Winger, is dying. "Garrett Breedlove" (Breedlove, are you serious!) is a slam-bam-thank-you-bimbo ex-astronaut.
Other actors could deliver that line but Nicholson delivers it best with his impish, devilish grin.
Look at him. "I don't know what else to say,"
Slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am, back to the twin blonde 16 year-olds.
"Which is?"
Gonna ball again!
Jack was Jack. Won or was nominated for Best Supporting actor in this movie. He was Jack, the greatest actor of our time.
I'm done, I'm not going to the end. I still have to re-read the elephant part from Garden. And look at the fucking time! See the movie. Or see it again as I did. This is real. This is the humanity for good and bad in us. Can you God bless a film? Well, God bless Terms of Endearment and everyone associated with making this amazing movie.
