Terms Of Endearment

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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

Director	James L. Brooks
Producer	James L. Brooks; Penney Finkelman Cox
Writer	James L. Brooks; Larry McMurtry

Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma Greenway (Debra Winger) have a close, but sometimes different, relationship. Aurora raised Emma on her own, so she always tried to keep her close as her only family. When Emma marries Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) and moves away, Aurora begins a new life as a single woman on the dating scene. Although she dates a series of men, she never finds that special one, but former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson) comes very close. Over the years, Emma can always turn to her mother, even when she and Flap break up. One day, Emma is diagnosed with a terminal illness and they both must face losing one another and the big decisions that have to be made.