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Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
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TERMS OF ENDEARMENT This family-comedy-turned-melodrama appears regularly on lists of Texas films even though it lacks some of the local flavor of the McMurtry novel on which it is based. Prominently featuring Houston (it was shot there and in Nebraska), Terms of Endearment follows an emotional mother-daughter relationship over the years, and the film adaptation owes its success to rich characterization. MacLaine has burned sharp-tongued yet loving mama Aurora Greenway into our collective subconscious, and Debra Winger is a perfect example of the rebellious daughter that really never leaves the nest. The best part of the movie, the acidic repartee between Aurora and her love interest -- the equally biting ex-astronaut/neighbor Garrett Breedlove (Nicholson) -- serves as a compelling distraction to the tragic events that turn Terms of Endearment into an unrivaled tearjerker.
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