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  • n  an excessively sentimental narrative

  • Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk.
  • Camille: For this version of Alexandre Dumas' famed tearjerker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assembled the three best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the .
  • Some watched the in-flight movie, Man, Woman and Child, a tearjerker about a married man suddenly discovering that he had fathered a son during an earlier affair.
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  • George Lucas in MSNBC
    It's not like the old 'Star Wars,' Lucas told theater owners at the ShoWest convention. "This one'sa little bit more emotional. We like to describe it as 'Titanic' in space. It'sa tearjerker."
  • Josh Lucas in San Diego Union Tribune
    It is a different 'Star Wars,'Lucas told the AP. "It is a tragedy. It's a real tearjerker. All the women who have seen it, some of the men that have seen it, cried through it."
  • Mike Oldfield in Times Online
    It's like an old-fashioned tearjerker. It was made for the right reasons and it was something everyone involved really cared about. There are important themes, I think, about forgiveness, what happens to love over time and an affair's effect on a... Bruce McCulloch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCulloch&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGzIPruVOARMYqEzl20jQLeECuLvQ Calgary Sun http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.calgarysun.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi%3Fp%3D170020%26x%3Darticles%26s%3Dshowbiz&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHhCaHOl4SSpyjL6fr00GRcHWu_xQ Jan 26, 2007 98541 130732 tearoom The old signposts were still there when I bought it, for the gift shop and the tearoom and all that," Oldfield says.

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