Sentences with phrase «made tearjerker»

Marc Webb follows up his Spider - Man movies with a sensitive and well - made tearjerker about a child genius.

Not exact matches

She took off her wig during the British show First Dates to make a point about beauty — and her date's sweet response is a tearjerker.

If you, along with 18 % of our survey respondents think that a rom - com should make you cry, then watch this film as it is the ultimate tearjerker.

Shawn Levy, who directed such lucrative disasters as the Steve Martin remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen, has been brought in by Steven Spielberg to make this conflation of The Champ (the 1931 tearjerker about a drunken boxer redeemed by his long - estranged son, Jackie Cooper) and Rollerball, the futuristic action flick built around a violent popular sport.

That sound alone makes Landline skew more toward comedy than drama, but it's also as heart - stoppingly human and sympathetic as any 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.

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.

It packs in a raft of creepy moments, making it one of the most chilling flicks ever made, and somehow also manages to be a massive tearjerker at the same time.

That could be the reason why it didn't resonate with audiences as much as expected, but it likely has more to do with the fact that, despite having the makings of a real tearjerker, the movie lacks emotional punch.

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.

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.

A film that's not a tearjerker but may very well make you cry, it's a drama / character study that brings so much to the table that it sneaks up on you.

Movies about people falling in love when one of them is dying is a particular sub-genre of romantic drama, and the latest entry into the field is Me Before You, a tearjerker adapted by Jojo Moyes from her novel of the same name, and directed by Thea Sharrock, a stage director making her feature film debut.

Sterling K. Brown made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (March 8) and dished about his role in Black Panther and the upcoming season finale of This Is Us being tearjerker.

Sure, AC3 is more akin to a summer Hollywood blockbuster than a powerful indie tearjerker, but it entertains throughout with good historical insight (mostly) and gameplay that makes you feel like a god among men.