THE LINE: “I don’t know what it is about you, but you do bring out the devil in me.”
THE FILM: Nicholson plays the astronaut neighbor (and more) to Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger’s mother-daughter protagonists in this 1983 tearjerker. But, even though he’s not part of the central duo, romantic affairs taking backseat (in a convertible) to familiar ones. Nicholson won an Oscar for his role.
