The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment
Winner:
Terms of Endearment
Story: Aurora (Shirley McLaine) and Emma (Debra Winger) 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 (Jack Nicholson), retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: The character of Garrett Breedlove does not appear in the novel and was written specifically with Burt Reynolds in mind by writer-director James L. Brooks. Reynolds loved the script but was already committed to star in Stroker Ace (1983).
So, tell me what you think? Did you like Terms of Endearment? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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What a completely depressing movie, I mean really, Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicolson in bed? eywwww. But seriously, why do they make so many movie about people that get untreatable diseases. Just imagine, you go get a flu shot, the doctor finds a lump, finds out it is malignant, trys the regular medicine that everybody else uses, but it doesn't work on you, you die, everyone is sad, Jack Nicolson sleeps with your mom. Wow.
The Big Chill, a group of college friends reunite at the funeral of one of their friends. (Depressing right?) Well I guess it is really about getting comforted by friends and stuff.
The Dresser is an episode from the Yankee Workshop were this victorian dresser is restored (Just Kidding). It is about a personal assistant of a deteriorating actor helping him through one last play (sounds depressing too).
Tender Mercies, an alcholic former country singer makes friends with a widow and her son that helps him resume his career. (sounds like it starts depressing)
The Right Stuff, my pick, about the original seven Mercury Astronaughts. A celebration of NASA. Whoo Hoo!
You're just prejudiced. I, on the other hand, think that any movie that has Jack Nicholson in it should never, under any circumstances, be nominated for, much less win, any award of any kind. I think the corpse in The Big Chill was played by Kevin Costner in his first starring (?) roll. Tender Mercies should have won just because it starred Robert Duvall and was about country music.
Kevin Costner was the corse in the title sequence, but all the flashbacks were eventually cut. The director was so upset that he had to do this, he cast Costner in Silvarado to make up for it.
As for Jack, well, YOU CAN"T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! sorry, just had to say that. I totally understand not liking an actor to the point were you will never see their movies. I will not watch anything with Hugh Grant in it. I don't know why, I just cringe when I see him act.
I love reading y'alls comments. Always making me laugh (hilarity ensues). So, out of the this list, The Big Chill and Terms of Endearment are the only two that I've seen and I would have picked Terms. The Big Chill seemed a bit slow (and depressing, well, they both were).
As for Jack Nicholson, I used to like his acting a lot, but after seeing him play the same role, the same way movie after movie he can get on the nerves. As for one of those actors that you won't see a movie because they're in it...we already know how I feel about Woody Allen, but it's also Nicole Kidman for me. I hate her overacting and she's a complete snob. I'm appalled that she one best actress that one time. Yuck!
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