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  1. The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Harling, adapted from the 1992 novel by Larry McMurtry. It is a sequel to the Academy Award -winning 1983 film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar in the original film.

  2. Dec 27, 1996 · The Evening Star” is a completely unconvincing sequel to “Terms of Endearment” (1983). It tells the story of the later years of Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine), but fails to find much in them worth making a movie about. It shows every evidence, however, of having closely scrutinized the earlier film for the secret of its success.

  3. Jan 1, 2001 · One way to judge the public ambivalence toward this novel, though, is that the movie made from Houston novel No. 3, Terms of Endearment, has an 81 percent approval rating among critics (on Rotten Tomatoes) while this final novel only earned 25 percent critic approval.

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    • Board Book
    • Guy Bellamy
  4. Jack Nicholson who a best supporting actor Oscar for Terms Of Endearment makes another appearance as a retired but quite randy astronaut. In the first film he showed he had more character than originally thought and keeps the tradition here. The Evening Star did not get as much rave reviews as Terms Of Endearment.

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    • Comedy, Drama, Romance
    • Robert Harling
    • 1996-12-25
  5. Jan 1, 1975 · Terms of Endearment and The Evening Star are two of McMurtry's best known novels, but many readers don't realize that they are actually books #3 and #6 of his Houston series. I was one of these readers, originally, and I read this novel alone, and liked it, but I spent more time comparing it to the famous movie then I did focusing on the ...

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    • Paperback
  6. In which Daniel & Henry talk about Terms of Endearment (1983) and The Evening Star (1996)Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-franchise/id11228...

    • 97 min
    • 27
    • The Franchise: A Film Podcast
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  8. Jan 9, 2019 · In honor of the film’s 35th anniversary, here are 10 endearing facts about the film. 1. James L. Brooks created Jack Nicholson’s astronaut character. In Larry McMurtry’s book, Aurora has a ...