Terms of Endearment

Factual error: Emma gets her cancerous lymph node removed without preceding or at least following chemotherapy. Later, when she finally gets chemotherapy, she keeps her full hair till the end.

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Suggested correction: Not all chemo, even during the time this film was made, causes hair loss.

Factual error: Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson both live in River Oaks (very ritzy neighborhood in Houston) and are traveling to Brennans restaurant in downtown Houston maybe 5-10 miles away - but they go by way of Galveston which is about 45 miles south of Houston - which needless to say is way way out of the way... (00:50:40)

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Emma Horton: Momma, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that.

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