Nothing I suffered approached what ultimately was Emma’s fate. I should mention that I was in the hospital a lot as a kid. Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson in the 1983 film "Terms of Endearment." Courtesy of the Somerville Theatre I grew up with some variation of this woman. But “Terms” is the type of movie I often watched on TV with Mom, what they used to derisively call “women’s pictures.” And Aurora was bigger than life, dramatic, and fiery. My relationship with my mom is nothing like the one between Debra Winger’s Emma and MacLaine’s Aurora in this tearjerker. Brooks’s Oscar-winning best picture “Terms of Endearment” (1983). It isn’t just Black characters that make me think of my mother. Not only is she one of my favorite movie moms - her movie is my favorite romantic comedy of all time. Like my mother, Claudine alternated between being nurturing and tender and being drill-sergeant strict. ![]() That life required a parent who was blunt, one who didn’t shield us from the hard lessons we needed to learn if we were to survive. Although we weren’t on welfare as Claudine’s family was, we were still broke as hell and living in a rough neighborhood. Still, I loved and feared Claudine as if I were her kid.Īs an adult, I finally understood why I had such a personal reaction to Carroll’s performance. Granted, Carroll’s comedic one-liners and threats were in a PG-rated movie, while my mother’s masterful, R-rated use of profanity could melt the wax in your ears. Claudine’s sharp tongue and her primary role as disciplinarian reminded me of my own mother.
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