Sentences with phrase «for tearjerker»

«Ask WHY he never took the dog to the vet if it was dying, instead videotaped it, for the tearjerker points and the funds that poured in.

Same goes for the tearjerker The Impossible, though its chances will likely be less solid if it fails to make a mark on the box office.

Just be careful with your movie selection — it could be a little too soon for a tearjerker!

While the script buries him in the Patch Adams - isms, Ellefsen somehow rises out of the tedium with a more likable character than many of the previousones patently made for tearjerkers.

Not exact matches

There are only two occasions when it's acceptable for a grown man to cry: while listening to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech and while watching Brian's Song, the 1971 tearjerker about Bears halfback Gale Sayers and his doomed teammate Brian Piccolo.

The scene where they finally become parents is a tearjerker, for sure.

«Til then, she's writes about tearjerker topics like loss and grief for xoJane, The Huffington Post, Modern Loss, Glamour, and on her blog, Sally's Circle.

«Til then, she's writes about tearjerker topics like loss and grief for xoJane, The Huffington Post, Modern Loss, Glamour, and on...

But, while the original «Finding Nemo» was an epic tearjerker and uniformly recognized cinema classic, for many the second installment isn't getting the same reaction.

Also playing well in Toronto was Weinstein Co's Oscar pick for this year, Garth Davis's tearjerker «Lion,» starring supporting Oscar contenders Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman in a true story about a man who lost his family when he was five years old and uses Google Earth to try and find them again.

Brown is best - known for MGM family tearjerkers «The Yearling» (1947) and «National Velvet» (1946), which starred young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, who also starred in Brown's nominated William Saroyan story «The Human Comedy» (1944).

He is perhaps remembered best for his intense and exquisitely shabby social melodramas (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)-- heavily influenced by Hollywood films, especially the female - driven tearjerkers of Douglas Sirk, and featuring misfit characters that often reflected his own fluid sexuality and self - destructive tendencies.

A patriotic film that moves from tearjerker to inspiring, Max is seemingly tailor - made for America's heartland.

You might suppose that he was trying for a hit PC tearjerker like Rain Man or The Eighth Day, but his movie is far too sincere and poetic to make this plausible.

The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's funny and bruising Sundance sensation is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The Herald's George Byrne and 2fm movie buff Brian Lloyd talk Disney sports drama «Million Dollar Arm» and getting the hankies out for shameless tearjerker «If I Stay».

The gist The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The Citizen Kane of teen - cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

It's a great week for movie lovers: two Quentin Tarantino movies, two lion - centric Disney films, a screecher, a screamer, a tearjerker and a great adventure all come to Blu - ray.

A remake of a 1968 Sandy Dennis tearjerker that no one really remembers (and for good reason), Sweet November is a grotesquely maudlin bit of unforgivable tripe that has as its only surprise the shocking fact that it was directed by Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends) and not Nora Ephron or Chris Columbus.

The «Citizen Kane» of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's funny and bruising second movie is like «The Fault in Our Stars» remade for arthouse movie - lovers.

Terminally ill Earth mother Charlize Theron makes things easy for uptight business - dude Keanu Reeves in 2001's Sweet November, an appropriately maudlin remake of the 1968 tearjerker.

Never sappy, it confronts fear with tongue - in - cheek resilience, right up until its quietly satisfying conclusion... almost certain to be a tearjerker for anyone who invests in this drama.

Payne plays the character's pidgin English for broad, borderline racist humor, while also supplying her with not one but two bathetic tearjerker monologues.

Thus does Here On Earth, a tearjerker for teens, strain our suspension of disbelief.

That is a dubious distinction for any film but especially for one whose unofficial theme song is the Sex Pistols» «Pretty Vacant,» which is not exactly a tearjerker.

It's a movie about a boy, a horse and the setbacks that befall them — so you can be forgiven for walking into Lean On Pete and immediately thinking you've just landed right smack dab in the middle of Tearjerker Central.

No, he's only going for epic period romance action effects extravaganza tearjerker.

The MTV Movie Awards occupy a unique niche in the awards show pantheon — one where sci - fi fantasies, teen tearjerkers, serious dramas and dystopian YA blockbusters all vie for movie of the year honors.

Taking a few pages from the tearjerker playbook, the film tugs at the heartstrings with heated spousal arguments in kitchens, nostalgic home videos and even some daddy issues for good measure

I do realize that there will be viewers out there that will curse me out for laughing during the tearjerker moments that had them sobbing in tears.

Actors Milo Ventimiglia (L) and Lonnie Chavis accept the Tearjerker award for «This Is Us» onstage during the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on May 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (Random House) Some people might think I'm crazy for recommending this tearjerker to a person going through a breakup, but I have my reasons: This is an engrossing story of a powerful friendship between two women, and it can be refreshing to read a book that portrays a meaningful, non-romantic relationship.

I am SO excited today to FINALLY reveal the STUNNING cover for a THOUSAND BOY KISSES, my upcoming Young Adult Tearjerker novel.

That tearjerker about your secretary's ailing grandmother could just mean a sale for your eBook on How to Choose a Nursing Home.

It was very well written, and a terrible tearjerker for me.

The most cited tearjerker from this series is probably Mass Effect 2's post-jump cinematic, where you go off on the suicide mission and your team's survival is determined by the side missions you've conducted, but that never really hit home for me.

As for the games, UC will be great and probably a tearjerker if Drake is killed off.

1994's Super Metroid for the Super NES is the tearjerker in question.

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I felt like having a good, long therapeutic cry about it yesterday, without having to pay $ 160 to a therapist for the privilege, so I resolved to watch a tearjerker movie to get my tears flowing.