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Kate Charleson Janice as Janice. Tom Wees Dr. Budge as Dr. Paul Menzel Dr. Maise as Dr. James L. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Aurora and Emma 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, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. Did you know Edit. Trivia At the end of production, to congratulate him for completing his first movie, James L.

Brooks received a book of "Life in Hell" cartoons, drawn by Matt Groening. Brooks was so impressed that he asked Groening to create cartoon shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show , which led to The Simpsons Quotes Aurora Greenway : Excuse me.

Nurse : [walks away to give Emma the shot] Aurora Greenway : Thank you very much. User reviews Review. Top review. Quirky characters who eventually grow on you. But since then, TV sitcoms have been mining this kind of flippant, edgy, raw sense of dynamics "Roseanne" comes to mind , and "Terms" doesn't seem as fresh.

Watching it again the other night, I couldn't help feeling some of the juice was missing, or that Shirley MacLaine's Aurora Greenway was actually more of an irritant than a sympathetic harridan. But on closer inspection, the lives of these characters are quite endearing, and the tender music on the soundtrack always underlines a poignant scene at just the right moment. As for MacLaine, I think she makes a few missteps in her characterization, and I didn't like the scene where she leaves her own birthday party in a huff and finds herself at Nicholson's door--it feels put on--or her famous scene with Jack driving on the beach, which is highly improbable.

Aurora Greenway Debra Winger Emma Horton Jack Nicholson Garrett Breedlove Danny DeVito Vernon Dahlart Jeff Daniels Flap Horton John Lithgow Sam Burns Lisa Hart Carroll Patsy Clark Betty King Rosie Dunlop as Betty R. King Huckleberry Fox Teddy Horton Troy Bishop Tommy Horton Shane Serwin Younger Tommy Horton Megan Morris Melanie Horton Tara Yeakey Baby Melanie Norman Bennett Edward Johnson Jennifer Josey Young Emma Kate Charleson Janice Tom Wees Budge Paul Menzel Maise F.

William Parker Doctor Amanda Watkins Meg Buddy Gilbert Ratcher David Wohl Phil Shelley K. Nurse as Shelley K. Nielsen R. Bette Croissant Nurse Charles Beall Rudyard's Employer Lelise Folse Doris Sharisse Baker-Bernard Checkout Girl as Judith A. Dickerson Devon O'Brien Brooks had originally cast Burt Reynolds for the part of Garrett Breedlove, but Reynolds dropped out to star in another movie.

I know just how that guy feels. When Aurora and Garrett finally go out to lunch together, afterward he takes her for a drive in his sports car, and they end up in the Gulf. Garrett kisses Aurora and then gropes her. In a speech for the American Film Institute, MacLaine revealed that during the scene in which Aurora goes to Garrett's front door and discusses going out to lunch, with every take Nicholson did a different improvisation.

Once he did it with a hooker. Once he did it with nothing on. Another time he did it as though he was drunk. That was the brilliance in working with Nicholson, because you could never tell what he was going to bring out in the other actor.