Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROSTITUTION, HEROIN, imprisonment, rape, unhappy love affairs: the elements of Billie Holiday's life sound like a soap-opera maker's dream and any serious film based on it would have to be handled carefully so as not to result in a tear-jerker. However, while the Berry Gordy production avoids melodrama and the extravaganza often used in filming the life of a legend, some inconsistencies exist that are so extreme as to be incongruous...
Love Story, Paramount's blockbuster lackluster tear-jerker. Harvard Square. 2:15, 5:55, 9:35. With Plaza Suite, 4 and 7:40. Until March...
...warm and likeable even if their characters are not, and by tenderly framing their creamy faces and soulful gazes, Hiller saves a pretty stale marriage. The director of Airport knew what he was about even if Segal didn't: a shrewd remake of a Claudette Colbert-Bette Davis tear-jerker, a wet and sloppy romantic interlude which ends in no good for one more tough American broad. Although the death watch exploits Ryan O'Neal as the rebellious scion with a lump in his throat, the real focus of this 1940 star-posturing is Ali McGraw. (Had she worn...
...Segal's a terrific fellow, terrific," Gordon said, "and his book is the greatest thing that has happened to Harvard in recent years. I saw a preview of the movie. It's an unbelievable tear-jerker. And I met Ali McGraw there. Said I was a friend of Segal's and buttered up to her. She said. 'You run in the Boston Marathon with Segal, don't you?' Made me feel great...
Then in Love Story, which, judging from the out-takes, is certain to be a real tear-jerker, O'Neal plays the preppie hockey star from Winthrop House...