Widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), have a strong bond, but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton against her mother’s wishes. When the marriage grows sour due to Flap’s cheating, Emma eventually splits from him, returning to her mother, who is involved with a former astronaut (Jack Nicholson). Soon, Emma learns that she has terminal cancer. In the hospital, supported by Aurora, she tries to make peace with Flap and her children. With Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito, John Lithgow.

“‘Terms of Endearment’ is the rare commercial picture that sets audiences to laughing hysterically and crying unashamedly, sometimes within consecutive seconds, and then shoos them out of the theater in contended emotional exhaustion.” (Globe and Mail)

“There’s something enlightening — and disturbing — about a motion picture that is so well written, so well-acted and so wise and knowing in its scope that you become swept up in the lives of its characters.” (Chicago Daily-Herald)

“Terms of Endearment is a movie of heart. And not a pink one cut from satin; a heart of muscle and blood shuddering away in its encasement of bone and sinew. A real heart.” (Baltimore Sun)

“A classic tearjerker, ‘Terms of Endearment’ isn’t shy about reaching for the heartstrings — but is so well-acted and smartly scripted that it’s almost impossible to resist.” (Rotten Tomatoes)

Sunday, May 14
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:20 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Advance tickets HERE

It’s Mother’s Day – Moms get in FOR FREE!

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (James L. Brooks, 1983 / 132 mins / PG) Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter’s family problems.

*Minors permitted. Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
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