Sentences with phrase «tearjerkers of»

One of the biggest tearjerkers of the night came when Jane Locke told of a 5 - year - old girl who was helped by Locke's local Mt. Pleasant, S.C. - based charity, Carolina Children's Charity, which benefits kids born with birth defects.

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.

Field of Dreams — The tearjerker of this list, I defy any of you not to cry at the very end.

Barrymore and Collette often seem like they're fighting with the tacky material, but it's a fight they ultimately win; however many times you roll your eyes at Jess and Milly, you can't help but get caught up in their tearjerker of a story.

Not exact matches

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.

There's nothing cinematic about this turgid tearjerker except the slumming presence of movie star Harrison Ford.

Very good warmhearted and often humourous tearjerker about the relationship of cantankerous Polish - American baker and his grandson throughout 30 years.

And to a former newspaper reporter, like myself, who came up in the wake of the events it depicts, it's also a nostalgic tearjerker.

Critics Consensus: Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.

It's an honest tearjerker that treats its characters with respect, according them a great sense of wounded, tattered dignity.

Critic Consensus: Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.

It echoes back to tearjerkers like «Terms of Endearment,» with honesty and appeal.

There's no surer sign that awards season has begun than the arrival of a tearjerker like Freeheld.

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.

Monster movies, disaster movies, chick flicks, tearjerkers, conspiracy thrillers, they all have people who love them regardless of their financial viability at the box office.

A film so sappy you could pour it over your pancakes, «The Vow» follows formulaic suit of every mushy tearjerker that's ever existed.

Saoirse Ronan, «Brooklyn» The tearjerker performance of the field and as a former nominee she's played this game before.

Millions of readers know that the story's the kind of potent tearjerker that often leads to awards fare, and the trailer seems to suggest that it's handsomely done.

The talented actress - turned - director Joan Chen (Xiu Xiu) should get the lion's share of the credit as to why what would ordinarily be a routine tearjerker works somewhat, along with an endearing performance by Ryder.

Based on the true story of Iowa City's West High School girls» volleyball team who battled back from tragedy in 2011, «The Miracle Season» is a formulaic but rousing tale of teamwork, girl power and community, and a tearjerker to boot.

Treacle of the highest / lowest order, this embarrassingly sappy sci - fi tearjerker unfolds chiefly from the perspective of an earnest space boy (eternal sensitive adolescent Asa Butterfield) who leaves the Martian colony where he was born to find his real father on Earth, while also romancing an unconvincingly teenage love interest (Britt Robertson).

The question is whether the adaptation of this acclaimed young adult novel can be a cinematic tearjerker it needs to be to win over Academy members.

A sluggish fusion of a disease - of - the - week tearjerker with a comedic family crime romp that abounds in Boston - crime - movie details.

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.

Additionally, there are tearjerkers, such as «Postcards from the Edge,» perhaps the greatest musical of them all, «Singin» in the Rain,» and other feel - good fare, such as «The Princess Bride,» «Casablanca,» «Bye Bye Birdie» and «Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.»

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 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.

Despite all these grand concepts bouncing around, A Dangerous Method settles at the level of a male tearjerker, with Jung begging Spielrein not to move away to Vienna and study under Freud.

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.

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.

WHY: Based on Jojo Moyes» bestselling novel of the same name, «Me Before You» isn't much different than your typical Hollywood tearjerker; it's a cloying and all too predictable romantic drama from the school of Nicholas Sparks.

The lighthouse in Derek Cianfrance's tony tearjerker The Light Between Oceans is a multipurpose symbol, amenable to the interpretive gymnastics of hustling English majors and film critics alike.

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.

The first trailer features Jake Gyllenhaal like you've never seen him before and from the looks of the trailer, I'm sure this new film from Antoine Fuqua is going to be one heck of a tearjerker.

June 16th is chock full of new releases, with tearjerker «The Book of Henry,» shark - infested Mandy Moore thriller «47 Meters Down,» Disney - Pixar's speedy sequel «Cars 3,» R - rated party - comedy «Rough Night,» and the Tupac Shakur biopic «All Eyez on Me» all new in theaters.

The film comes to concern a selfless martyr before morphing, most absurdly, into a disease - of - the - week tearjerker.

It doesn't quite provide the punch of the «Beginning of Summer Tween / Teen Romantic Tearjerker», the surprise hit «The Fault in Our Stars», but it's close.

Brooks delivers zip and energy, plus good humor, never straying terribly long to the point of tedium in any one scenario, and does manage to pull off a couple of tearjerker moments near the end that are earned.

The Kick - Ass star takes on her first romantic lead role in tearjerker If I Stay, based on the smash hit book of the same name.

Consider this British would - be tearjerker the date movie equivalent of Batman v Superman: both ghastly and flat, and inert when it should be its most heart - stopping moments.

I'm very excited to see this, I'm in need of another Pixar tearjerker.

Director Josh Boone's adaptation of John Green's bestselling novel about two teenagers who meet at a cancer support group and fall in love, The Fault in Our Stars is engagingly plotted and anchored by rich characterizations — a swollen tearjerker that confirms the star presence of Shailene Woodley.

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

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.

From novelist Nicholas Sparks («The Notebook,» «Message in a Bottle») comes another romantic drama, a passionate story about love, family and forgiveness, a tearjerker about how one long weekend can change the lives of two people.

Even the tearjerker - ready conclusion hammers home the crocodile tears with its overblown closing image: reuniting characters in the foreground of a burning, orange sunset, which feels like the «Gone With the Wind» set.

If it sounds like the kind of beautifully lit period romance that usually arrives in theaters in the fall, well, it is — but look at this way: here's one less tearjerker that your wife or girlfriend will try and drag you to during football season.