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Film · Paramount · 1983

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Terms of Endearment

66Worth an evening.

Bring a tissue, and do not pretend the hospital is a pep talk.

The review

They fight for years, a mother and a daughter, and then there are not years left. I did not experience that turn as a lesson in pluck. The daughter's marriage is imperfect and real. A neighbor who used to be an astronaut supplies the comedy, which the film needs, because the hospital is not a joke and not a rally. It is a mother who will not let the nurses be slow.

Put it on when you can bear a sickbed without turning the sickbed into a speech. I laughed at the astronaut and then felt the laugh get smaller. What the film trusts is the long argument between two women who were never smooth, and the way that argument becomes care when time runs out. You do not get a fixer. You get a mother still demanding the next right thing from the people paid to help.

Journal

Keep Terms of Endearment in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Babe

73 instead of 66

Babe is still a drama film, and it scores 73 instead of 66. What you gain is industry: The work of herding, practiced.

The eight

5
Industry
An ex-astronaut next door is the joke, and the nurses' pace becomes the crisis.
9
Household
A mother and daughter who fought for years, and a marriage that is imperfect and real.
7
Piety
Love shows up as a mother who will not let the nurses be slow.
7
Courage
They face the end of the years without turning the hospital into pluck.
5
Republic
She treats the hospital as a place that owes her daughter speed and care.
6
Temperance
The film refuses the rally and lets the comedy stay with the neighbor.
8
Truth
The long fight was real, and so is the fact that they do not have years left.
6
Stewardship
No years are left to pass down, only a mother still demanding care.

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Film · Prime Video · 2012

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ParaNorman

66Worth an evening.

Fear faced by understanding, not by a spear. Good for a child who can take a ghost.

The review

Norman is bullied for a gift that is mostly the willingness to hear. The town prefers a mob and a story about a witch. The film's turn, that the cursed child was a frightened child and the curse was the town's, is the right turn. It does not ask you to pretend the dead are cute from the first minute. It asks you to stop the torch.

Some of the jokes are ruder than the fable needs. The fable holds. A house can watch it near Halloween and come out less eager to chant at the odd boy. That is a rare result for a cartoon with zombies.