Terms of Endearment (1983). One of the ultimate mother-daughter movies stars Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway and Debra Winger as her daughter Emma. MacLaine, in her Oscar winning performance, owns the screen as she pleads—or, rather demands—for the nurses to administer her daughter’s pain medication: “My daughter is in pain, can’t you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!”