This movie was nothing I would except Anne Hathaway to even do. Its a very dark movie very boring too. It looks like someone was walking around with a camera recording people. At time you can get sick watching it.
Clancy's script is better than his direction, with several high points in both dialogue and scene construction. The material is darkly funny but not so dark as to be vicious.
Terms of Endearment is about three relationships and students of screenwriting would do well to study the way in which these three stories are told completely and effortlessly in a movie of average length.
Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Gerwig's dreamy style worked in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, because the movie created an eco-system of oddity in which that style could thrive. But here it just grates.
I had a preference for the original \u201CThe Goodbye Girl\u201D with Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason (1977) which this is NOT. Yet the Patricia Heaton\/Jeff Daniels combo did reasonable justice to Neil Simon\u2019s brilliant play.\nThe ONE really worth watching in this set of four (forget the other two films), is the Billy Crystal \/ Debra Winger \u201CForget Paris\u201D. The structure of the story left you wondering\u2026.what had happened\u2026 till the conclusion of the film. Well crafted.