Sentences with phrase «jerker film»

This is a tear jerker film of the upteenth degree but as others have said, this is a story about sisters and true love.

Not exact matches

While a considerable number of women favor tear - jerkers or love stories, men find their enjoyment from action films or adult entertainment like Adult Avenue DVD's.

This 1953 tear - jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big.

All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most truthful and one of the best war films of all time, and a true tear jerker.

To call the film a tear - jerker is to miss the point somewhat, and perhaps the same goes for reducing Lee's grief to just maleness (though that is tempting).

Because Fault in Our Stars deals with heavier issues, it should leave a stronger impression on people than Boone's first outing as director; if handled well, the film could be a moving tear - jerker - if not, this one could easily feel cloying and / or manipulative.

This year, the crop of fifteen films headed to DOC NYC include Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's marvelous collision of media and politics Weiner, Roger Ross Williams» tear - jerker Life, Animated, and Ezra Edelman's eight - hour saga OJ: Made in America.

It's no secret how the film ends, yet Me and Earl and the Dying Girl remains a tear - jerker and one of the best films that 2015 had to offer.

Reportedly something of a cold fish, he has nevertheless made three of the warmest and most thrilling fiction films about animals of all time: the undisputed classic The Black Stallion, the messed - up but still remarkable Never Cry Wolf, and the exhilarating tear - jerker Fly Away Home.

Indiewire's Anne Thompson tweets her initial reaction to the film, an endorsement that bodes well for both its commercial prospects and its Oscar chances: «Labor Day is that rare thing these days, a well wrought drama, a love story and a tear jerker.

The best - selling British writer, whose tear - jerker One Day was a dark horse hit back in 2009 and later became a film starring Anne Hathaway, returns this fall with a second novel that follows one man's attempt to rescue his broken marriage.

Matheson's oeuvre includes I Am Legend (which has been adapted for film three times since its 1954 publication, notably The Omega Man in 1971 and Will Smith's 2007 loose adaptation); A Stir of Echoes (made into the 1999 Kevin Bacon film); Bid Time Return (which inspired the 1980 Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time); and What Dreams May Come (which was adapted for the 1998 Robin Williams tear - jerker)-- among many, many others.