Time of tenderness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Time of tenderness |
| Original title | Terms of Endearment |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James L. Brooks |
| script | James L. Brooks |
| production | James L. Brooks |
| music | Michael Gore |
| camera | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| cut | Richard Marks |
| occupation | |
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Time of tenderness (Original title: Terms of Endearment ) is an American drama from 1983 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry .
action
The film tells the story of mother and daughter over a period of 30 years. Aurora is a headstrong woman who cannot break away from her daughter Emma, with whom she has an unusually close relationship. Emma has a hard time asserting herself next to her dominant mother. Always paying attention to dignity and honor, the widow has rejected several marriage proposals since the loss of Emma's father in order to devote herself to her daughter.
When Emma wants to lead a life of her own and, against her mother's wishes, marries the young professor Flap, whom Aurora hates, the widow is suddenly alone. The couple move to another city, Emma has three children, and Aurora is not at all happy about her grandmother role.
She has an affair with her neighbor and friend Garrett. The drunkard and former astronaut helps Aurora give up her outdated views and stand by her feelings. While Aurora is enjoying her happiness, Emma separates from her unfaithful husband and returns to her mother with the children. Aurora takes in her daughter and grandchildren, but Emma becomes ill with cancer and dies.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of November 23, 1983 that the most important achievement - of many - was that the film had a balance between the funny and the sad moments. It is a "wonderful" film and the portrayal of Debra Winger in the final scenes is "great".
“A mixture of boyish comedy and soulful melodrama; a bit too smooth and superficial, but insightful in the psychological development of the characters and played excellently in all roles. "
Awards
Zeit der Tärtlichkeit has received numerous awards and in 1984 received five Oscars in the categories of Best Picture , Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay . The six other Oscar nominations included those for John Lithgow and Debra Winger, for the soundtrack, for the editing, for the sound and for the best production design.
The film for Best Motion Picture Drama , with Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine and James L. Brooks as screenwriter, won the 1984 Golden Globe Award . James L. Brooks as director and Debra Winger were nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Shirley MacLaine received the Premi David di Donatello in 1984 and was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 1985. James L. Brooks won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1984 .
background
Debra Winger, who tried to overcome a severe cocaine addiction while filming, behaved erratically on set. This created tension between her and Shirley MacLaine, which led to intense, sometimes physical, arguments.
In the sequel, Years of Tenderness , which Robert Harling directed in 1996, also based on a novel by Larry McMurtry , only Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson played from the original . Besides took Bill Paxton , Juliette Lewis , Miranda Richardson , Ben Johnson and Scott Wolf roles.
After its theatrical release on November 23, 1983, the film grossed over $ 108 million in the United States alone, with an estimated production budget of $ 8 million. In West Germany , where the film started on June 4, 1984, it was seen by 1,223,179 cinema viewers, making it 16th among the most successful films of the German cinema year 1984.
literature
- Larry McMurtry : Time of Tenderness. The book for the film (OT: Terms of Endearment ). German by Peter Prange and Andreas Heering. Knaur, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-426-01175-1
Web links
- Terms of Endearment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Terms of Endearment atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Time of Tenderness in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 11, 2016
- ^ Terms of Endearment (1983). Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Terms of Endearment (1983) on boxofficemojo.com , accessed April 4, 2012
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1984 on insidekino.de , accessed on April 4, 2012