The Evening Star (1996)

The Evening Star (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Harling

Written By:
Larry McMurtry
Robert Harling

Actors:
Shirley MacLaine ..... Aurora Greenway
Bill Paxton ..... Jerry Bruckner
Juliette Lewis ..... Melanie Horton
Miranda Richardson ..... Patsy Carpenter
Ben Johnson ..... Arthur Cotton
Scott Wolf ..... Bruce
George Newbern ..... Tommy Horton
Marion Ross ..... Rosie Dunlop
Mackenzie Astin ..... Teddy Horton
Donald Moffat ..... Hector Scott
Jennifer Grant ..... Ellen
China Kantner ..... Jane
Jack Nicholson ..... Garrett Breedlove
Shawn Taylor Thompson ..... Bump
Jake Langerud ..... Henry

Synopsis:

After her daughter Emma's death, Aurora Greenway raised her grandchildren in her devoted, but overbearing way. The results are mixed and she knows it. Still plugging away at thankless parenting, she battles with 18-year-old Melanie and prods the older brothers Tommy and Teddy, but they all regard her continuing guidance as relentless meddling. She still has to contend with the unwelcome interference and questionable influence of Patsy Carpenter, who was Emma's best friend and is Aurora's chief rival for the children's affection. Aurora and Patsy's competition for the attention of Aurora's younger therapist heightens the stakes in this dysfunctional family's feud.

Shirley MacLaine reprises her award-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to Terms of Endearment. Fifteen years after the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora is still keeping an eye on her three grandchildren and not having very good luck with it. Tommy (George Newbern) is currently doing time on drug charges; Teddy (MacKenzie Astin) has a job with no future and an ill-mannered child whose mother, Jane (China Kantner), doesn't believe in traditional discipline; and Melanie (Juliette Lewis) is bound and determined to put Aurora through as much grief as Emma did. Aurora has a number of other adversarial relationships to contend with; she often spars with Patsy (Miranda Richardson), a friend of Emma's dead mother, and her housekeeper Rosie (Marion Ross), who is having a tentative late-term romance with the next-door neighbor, Arthur (Ben Johnson). Aurora's own love life is not doing so well. Her affair with The General (Donald Moffat) is on its last legs, she ends up sleeping with her analyst Jerry (Bill Paxton), and she confesses to her former flame Garrett (Jack Nicholson) that she has yet to meet the love of her life. Like Terms of Endearment, The Evening Star was based on a novel by Texas author Larry McMurtry; this was the final film for actor Ben Johnson, who died before it was released and who received an Academy Award and made a major comeback for his work in another film based on a McMurtry novel, The Last Picture Show.

Sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. Aurora Greenaway, whose daughter died of cancer, faces trouble with her granddaughter.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 06 April, 2016.