Directed by Robert Harling
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.
Shirley MacLaine Bill Paxton Juliette Lewis Miranda Richardson Ben Johnson Scott Wolf George Newbern Marion Ross Mackenzie Astin Donald Moffat Jennifer Grant China Kantner Jack Nicholson Shawn Taylor Thompson Jake Langerud Sharon Bunn Clement von Franckenstein Antonia Bogdanovich Jimmie Lee Balthazar Melinda Renna Mark Walters Ann Hardman-Broughton Woody Watson Larry Elliott Donny Caicedo Connie Cooper Laura Cayouette John McCalmont John Bennett Perry Show All…
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It is essentially the Lifetime-ready weepie Terms of Endearment so skillfully avoided becoming, but Shirley MacLaine does justice to the continuing evolution of Aurora regardless. She makes even the most sitcom-y scenes feel dignified, which is no easy feat.
It doesn't give me the same gut wrenching and tear jerking reaction that the first movie 'Terms Of Endearment' gave me but I think it does a good job developing Aurora and furthering that character that was played so well in the first.
"Everyone needs to experience happiness even if it doesn't last".
Sometimes you just cry your fucking eyes out for the last ten minutes of a mediocre movie, okay. Reunions, deaths, loves, renewals, inevitabilities all have their impact. The implications of the last film's ending seem erased here, though, in some ways, and the struggle feels at times like a rehash, redirected from lovers to family in the end. It's a weak facsimile of the original, itself a flawed by emotionally powerful movie. Shirley MacLaine reigns here, and her relationships with Rosie and Patsy especially feel worth exploring. But we don't see enough of Rosie (despite this, that arc is what made me cry the most), and Patsy is less a character than a recurring gag up til the end. This should have been left alone, she says as she wipes the stain of salt and water from her face.
Kathleen's VHS Collection 2017: 88/100
I bet most people didn't even know "Terms of Endearment" had a sequel let alone have even heard of this before. "The Evening Star" is one of the most unnecessary and pointless sequels ever made that's inferior to it's predecessor in every way. It ruins the ending of the first film and takes it's characters in directions that just didn't feel like natural progressions for them. This feels and is shot like a made for TV program and some of the storylines feel like they were pulled right out of a melodramatic lifetime movie. It even rehashes elements of the first film that don't work at all and the emotion feels so forced and manipulative this time around.
This isn't…
A sequel to Terms of Endearment, more like a remake in some ways though. Almost shot-for-shot with certain scenes. Juliette Lewis is a pretty good Debra Winger replacement.
A lot of wasted food in this one. People chucking boxes of brownies in the bin, plates full of painstakingly handcrafted cuisine left to rot in the dumpster. Even a scene where Shirley MacLaine and Bill Paxton sit down and order two dishes filled to the brim with chips and pork and then just leave it. What a waste. Never heard of 'waste not, want not'?
Wonderful characters in another pointless sequel.
i honestly don’t know which one is the saddest, terms of endearment and this movie are equally sad in my opinion.
"The Evening Star" has to be one of the most unnecessary sequels I've ever seen. Its heart is certainly in the right place, and there's plenty of nice little moments sprinkled throughout, but unlike the fabulous original film, a lot of the emotions of this film honestly feel rather contrived, as good as the performers are. The first film told such a well accomplished, completed story, and not only does this sequel even undo some of that film's beautiful ending, there's nothing really here that is compelling enough to justify this film's existence. Shirley MacLaine is by no surprise still pretty great here and while I do not at all like what they do with his character, Nicholson's few scenes with her are again a highlight. The cast all work well together here, it's just unfortunately not a sequel story worth telling.
The Evening Star is a flawed but entertaining sequel to Terms of Endearment. It's little more than an overly long drama-sitcom. Juliette Lewis plays Aurora's granddaughter who wants to make things as difficult for her grandmother as her late mother. In the meantime, control freak Aurora (MacLaine) still can't find love, so we have to wait for Jack Nicholson, who eventually appears, delivers some powerful lines and disappears again, after which the film continues for a long time. It has good scenes, but it could have been shorter - with less storylines. Good to see Marion Ross, tough.
Despite a tenacious lead it feels like a sitcom, all sorts of situations, funny, sad, unerving but it feels like the ending of seasonal show. The music compensated the laugh track. It even had a guest star cameo!
the cast was doing overtime to make this script work while under the duress of uninspired directing... and they did, idgaf! vampy miranda richardson should have been an oscar nom
Oh, okay, so I might have made ('might have' is an understatement) a mistake of not watching Terms Of Endearment first, but alright, what can I do, I had no fucking idea. However, even watched and observed as a standalone? It's pretty fine.