Terms of Endearment with Mac Blake

This is a movie that now feels like a fairly mediocre network television drama. There must have been something positively sparkling about it in 1983 when it won practically every award out there, but aside from one or two iconic Jack Nicholson scenes and a handful of good lines, this is a plain old ramble of a movie through a standard divorces-and-dates plot. It does end with cancer, which must account for its reputation as a tear-jerker, but Mac and I were not moved to much beyond confusion. The most difficult part is just figuring out WHEN the movie is taking place, with confusing time jumps and visual cues about era that are way lost on a 21st century audience. Not a bad movie, but definitely not a barnstormer in its old age.

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