What the corpus says about Terms of Endearment (1983)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Terms of Endearment (1983) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Terms of Endearment (1983) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:23 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Terms of Endearment · lineage · Recommended as a James L. Brooks sad-comedy relative. · "terms of endearment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Terms of Endearment · verdict · One host says Terms of Endearment deserved Best Picture over The Big Chill. · "No, I think terms of endearment should have."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Terms of Endearment · verdict · Later the screenwriting Oscar is argued: Big Chill should have won over Tender Mercies. · "Nah, Big Chelsea should have won."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:33:20 · unknown (0.30)] Terms of Endearment ↔ Star Wars: Return of the Jedi · industry · Terms of Endearment was the second-biggest film of its year, behind Return of the Jedi (corrected from Empire). · "No, Return of the Jedi."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:46:03 · unknown (0.40)] Terms of Endearment ↔ Jack Nicholson · craft · Nicholson is unusually unvain and vulnerable, as discussed on the Terms of Endearment episode. · "he's so good at letting himself be like vulnerable and like foolish."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:16:16 · unknown (0.30)] Jack Nicholson ↔ Terms of Endearment · people · Brooks had already worked with Nicholson on Terms of Endearment, where he won an Oscar. · "he'd work with Nicholson on terms of endearment, he wins an Oscar."
[pairs] Terms of Endearment ↔ The Big Chill · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk. · "it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:31:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Franny and Zooey · lineage · The movie is a Salinger pastiche; Anderson would need a Salinger adaptation as IP cover today. · "he would have to make Franny and Zooey. Like he would have to make an adaptation of a Salinger novel"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Jean-Luc Godard ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the maker said so: Matt Zoller Seitz's book on the movie) · lineage · The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar. · "he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Louis Malle ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave directors listed among its influences. · "some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Francois Truffaut ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · French New Wave influence. · "Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums. · "it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read) · lineage · Salinger's Glass-family stories are the key literary influence. · "Zoe is like the key influence on this film"
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Terms of Endearment (1983); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Terms of Endearment (1983) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.