Well, perhaps I am not that old (it depends who you ask), but I am a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to this film. I know that TONS of people love this movie and it won the Best Picture Oscar, but it left me cold. In fact, the only part of the movie I really liked was the bizarre scene where Jack Nicholson was driving along the beach (you just have to see it). I never really felt much about the rest of the film. So, as folks weeped during the sequences where Deborah Winger played a woman battling cancer, I didn't particularly care. The film felt, to me, manipulative and I didn't think much about the characters or the mother-daughter relationship. But, as I said, I am a curmudgeon...and I also didn't like "Steel Magnolias", either. It isn't that I won't watch 'disease films' (after all, I am a cancer survivor), but not ones where I am not invested in the folks in the film. Sorry, but that's just my two-cents worth.
Review of Terms of Endearment
