Terms of Endearment
“Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms.”
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Terms of Endearment performed
Budget
$8.0M
Worldwide Gross
$108.4M
Gross Profit
$100.4M
Return
13.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Aurora Greenway
Shirley MacLaine
Aurora Greenway
Emma Greenway Horton
Debra Winger
Emma Greenway Horton
Garrett Breedlove
Jack Nicholson
Garrett Breedlove
Vernon Dahlart
Danny DeVito
Vernon Dahlart
Flap Horton
Jeff Daniels
Flap Horton
Sam Burns
John Lithgow
Sam Burns
Patsy Clark
Lisa Hart Carroll
Patsy Clark
Rosie Dunlop
Betty King
Rosie Dunlop
Teddy Horton
Huckleberry Fox
Teddy Horton
Tommy Horton
Troy Bishop
Tommy Horton
Younger Tommy Horton
Shane Serwin
Younger Tommy Horton
Melanie Horton
Megan Morris
Melanie Horton
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