A Monster Calls review: J.A. Bayona directs and Liam Neeson voices a tree in the his fantasy tear -
jerker which may just have taken the...
Not exact matches
It's not an emotionally driven tear -
jerker like «Saving Private Ryan,»
which couldn't even win Best Picture by killing a school teacher played by Tom Hanks.
Much anticipated items include the latest from Wash Westmoreland (Colette) and should make for an emotional preem without the departed co-creator Richard Glatzer, Debra Granik «s third feature
which is no longer going by the book title of My Abandonment, Gus Van Sant (could be a tear -
jerker of a drama with Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot) & Zellner Bros. with the long awaited Damsel.
With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated tear -
jerker aimed squarely at young teenage girls, who definitely deserve better than a movie
which makes The Lovely Bones look like a neo-realist classic.
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.