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When her character (played by Winona Ryder) leaves the psychiatric institution never to return, the film takes a turn toward the tear-jerker.
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Directed by Aroona Irani who also acts in it, its hour long-episodes have of late been hitting enough of an emotional pitch to delight those who love a well-made tear-jerker.
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At times, the book is reminiscent of a Victorian tear-jerker.
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The concluding episode was a total tearjerker and had brilliant writing and acting.
The Sun
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What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
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Now for the two: The Field of Dreams clip is a tear-jerker, and from one of the two or three best baseball pictures ever; the Psycho Shower Scene is a true watershed in American filmmaking — the younger horror film watchers today, with their virtual immersion in sex and gore, simply have no true idea of the impact this scene had when it was first released.
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I think I may give the Victorian tear-jerkers a miss from now on, though, and turn to some good, sigh-raising Torch Songs.
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That's pretty good for what some critics considered a mere "potboiler" or "tearjerker" -- but had it been just that, it wouldn't have had the impact that it had.
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Grab the tissues, because this is a tearjerker all too close to home.
The Sun
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It's not that the movie was sappy or even a tear-jerker.
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A nifty tear-jerker featuring extortionists, some fine Robin solo work, the backfiring of Bruce's playboy pose, and (I have to admit) some questionable family-law procedure.
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I say this although I did not especially like the film, which I found a tear-jerker of the old school.
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In particular, the latter is a blues-rock tear-jerker with a gentle, memorable chorus.
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The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
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But people with class don't talk about it in public, and they certainly don't do it in a two-part tear-jerker with the AP.
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It was a tear-jerker all right, but not for the reasons you expect.
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Yet they were also the subject of tracts, sermons, poems, memoirs, illustrations, and not a few Tin Pan Alley tearjerkers.
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It's not as hokey as a lot of films, and it's not a tear-jerker really, but it's good on more levels than just the jokes, that's for sure.
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It's not that the movie was sappy or even a tear-jerker.
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A real tear-jerker is the scene where Madelon, an old woman who has already lost her son and a grandson in the war, offers her last grandson as a soldier.
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For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept.
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Grab the tissues, because this is a tearjerker all too close to home.
The Sun
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The kid who collected Spider-man" .... absolutely the best tear-jerker.
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That's not to say it's devoid of feeling, it's just there are no cloying resolutions or scenes written as tear-jerkers.
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The production houses that churn out soaps for the mini-screen in quick succession have taken it for granted that tear-jerkers and low comedy are in great demand among family audiences.
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Sylvia was a tear-jerker supreme, and a born flirt with an incomparable sense of humour.
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As a tear-jerker, the film could tug at the ducts a little less fervently and still maintain its desired effect.
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With the serial makers trying all the tricks in their hats to impress the audience, already inundated with tear-jerkers, more encounters like this could be in the offing.
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I'd recommend that you take a pile of tissues with you when you see that film - it's a real tear jerker!
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Cue a bronze-medal display and a copper-bottomed tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the serial makers trying all the tricks in their hats to impress the audience, already inundated with tear-jerkers, more encounters like this could be in the offing.
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It's not as hokey as a lot of films, and it's not a tear-jerker really, but it's good on more levels than just the jokes, that's for sure.
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To learn more about the formula for a tear-jerker, a few years ago Dr. Guhn and his colleague Marcel Zentner found musical excerpts—from Mendelssohn's "Trio for Piano" and Barber's "Adagio for Strings," for example—that reliably produce the chills and then measured the physiological reactions heart rate, sweating, goose bumps of listeners.
Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker
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History is rewritten and tidied up to give a swelling tearjerker of an ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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You get the year's most unlikely tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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A must-see tearjerker featuring some brilliant acting.
The Sun
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Part of the JM Barrie biopic was filmed at Richmond Theatre, giving Birrell a special affinity with the tear-jerker.
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Considered to be an immense literary figure, he earned his place in history with a simple tearjerker.
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Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.
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The movie is a really smart tear-jerker without the sappy syrup of a traditional chick flick.
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Unfortunately, the only film on the list with sci-fi chops is the 1999 animated tear-jerker The Iron Giant.
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The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
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A must-see tearjerker featuring some brilliant acting.
The Sun
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I'd recommend that you take a pile of tissues with you when you see that film - it's a real tear jerker!
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The concluding episode was a total tearjerker and had brilliant writing and acting.
The Sun
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Sounds like this series will be quite the tearjerker.
The Sun
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(I didn't watch this, but have it on good authority that it is a major tear-jerker.) -- Anne rs gold says, "When you play games, you really thought about the Department of your equipment w ...
November 2009
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Talk about a tear-jerker, imagine 300 pages on the subject of crying.
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You get the year's most unlikely tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's not to say it's devoid of feeling, it's just there are no cloying resolutions or scenes written as tear-jerkers.
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Part of the JM Barrie biopic was filmed at Richmond Theatre, giving Birrell a special affinity with the tear-jerker.
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Cue a bronze-medal display and a copper-bottomed tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd recommend that you take a pile of tissues with you when you see that film - it's a real tear jerker!
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The one that really got me going, though, and far more suitable for my bass-baritone, was a real tear-jerker of the kind we loved way back when.
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The production houses that churn out soaps for the mini-screen in quick succession have taken it for granted that tear-jerkers and low comedy are in great demand among family audiences.
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Talk about a tear-jerker, imagine 300 pages on the subject of crying.
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A nifty tear-jerker featuring extortionists, some fine Robin solo work, the backfiring of Bruce's playboy pose, and (I have to admit) some questionable family-law procedure.
Happy anniversary, you old bat | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Sounds like this series will be quite the tearjerker.
The Sun
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History is rewritten and tidied up to give a swelling tearjerker of an ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a tear-jerker, the film could tug at the ducts a little less fervently and still maintain its desired effect.
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In particular, the latter is a blues-rock tear-jerker with a gentle, memorable chorus.
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The unsubtle way that this obvious tearjerker attempts to align us against the corporation is almost unbearable.
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The one that really got me going, though, and far more suitable for my bass-baritone, was a real tear-jerker of the kind we loved way back when.
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Don't be fooled, though, this is a shameless tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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When her character (played by Winona Ryder) leaves the psychiatric institution never to return, the film takes a turn toward the tear-jerker.
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Worst of all, for a tearjerker, it is a strangely unemotional experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't be fooled, though, this is a shameless tearjerker.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think I may give the Victorian tear-jerkers a miss from now on, though, and turn to some good, sigh-raising Torch Songs.
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A tearjerker of an episode, demonstrating how this show flexes its emotional muscles with ease.
The Sun
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A real tear-jerker is the scene where Madelon, an old woman who has already lost her son and a grandson in the war, offers her last grandson as a soldier.
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At times, the book is reminiscent of a Victorian tear-jerker.
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Directed by Aroona Irani who also acts in it, its hour long-episodes have of late been hitting enough of an emotional pitch to delight those who love a well-made tear-jerker.
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Worst of all, for a tearjerker, it is a strangely unemotional experience.
Times, Sunday Times
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I mean, the NYRB does publish a lot of great stuff, but it also publishes a lot of self-indulgent preachy leftist hot air and cliquish puff-piece circle-jerkery.
Will Saletan’s Moderation
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What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
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It was a tear-jerker all right, but not for the reasons you expect.
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Neither a boffo smash, nor a miserable dud or pandering tear-jerker, although one could be spotted sitting behind the president.
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It is a philosophical tearjerker, a poignant romance for the intellectual set, and a touching character study.
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I say this although I did not especially like the film, which I found a tear-jerker of the old school.
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A tearjerker of an episode, demonstrating how this show flexes its emotional muscles with ease.
The Sun
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With "Someone Like You," Adele and Mr. Wilson not only crafted a perfect tear-jerker but also stumbled upon a formula for commercial success: Unleash the tears and chills with small surprises, a smoky voice and soulful lyrics, and then sit back and let the dopamine keep us coming back for more.
Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker
