You Must Remember This: Terms of Endearment (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 7)

July 07,2020

Karina Longworth’s award winning and acclaimed podcast series about Hollywood

Polly’s third marriage falls apart, and she enters more than one destructive affair. During these tumultuous times, Polly establishes a new collaboration with a male writer-director, James L. Brooks, and together the two turn another Larry McMurtry novel into a classic film: Terms of Endearment. Once again, while working on this film about a combative mother-daughter relationship, Polly finds that art and life are intertwined. Polly’s own story starts showing up in other people’s movies, including Irreconcilable Differences — starring Ryan O’Neal as a version of Peter Bogdanovich.