Word: mawkish
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...Front), who has collaborated with Cinematographer John Alonzo and Production Designer Robert Luthardt to paint the colorful Louisiana and New Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...
Sally and Luke's romance is the heart of Coming Home. Though the illicit affair of a beautiful woman and a cripple is potentially mawkish stuff, Ashby usually does not allow his story to become overly sentimental. He does not view the couple's relationship as a panacea for all their emotional problems, and he refuses to shy away from harsh detail. When Luke finally leaves his wheelchair to join Sally in bed, the hero's handicaps bring the ensuing sex scene an added poignance...
...mawkish finale that seems inspired by Who's Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf?, the film calls attention to all of Wertmuller's worst habits. Characters are forever letting loose with faddish and fatuous pronouncements about the connections between love and power. Loud music and pounding drums on the sound track accent the script's most histrionic moments...
Short Eyes Shot at "the Tombs" house of detention in New York City, this film offers a brutally honest slice of prison life, and it is completely devoid of the mawkish hand wringing that has characterized most other American jailhouse movies. There are no bad-guy guards to hiss at, no latter-day Birdmen of Alcatraz to root for. Writer Miguel Pinero, who served five years at Sing Sing for armed robbery and is currently under indictment for other crimes, asks the audience to see his characters for exactly what they...
...currently packing them in at movie theaters all over America, makes a decent stab at exposing the high-pressure, win-at-all-costs nature of intercollegiate sports, a topic deserving of much scrutiny. On that level, One on One is fine; unfortunately, it descends to the level of mawkish boredom in detailing the march to maturity of its main character, a hotshot basketball player portrayed by Robbie Benson...