Word: mope
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...Sister's Keeper which may have infuriated as many people as it moved). In theory, losing someone you love shouldn't be any less universal than finding someone to love, but it tends to be such an inwardly focused experience - most of us just hole up in pajamas and mope - that it's an enormous challenge to portray on film without teetering into the mawkish. Which unfortunately, is just what The Greatest does...
...also the umpteenth recent movie to deal with grieving over a lost loved one (Brothers, A Single Man, Broken Flowers, even Up) and at least the fourth (after The Lovely Bones, Creation and Nine) in which the dead communicate to the living. Audiences may have tired of the high mope factor in these movies; they'd prefer to see an action star spending less time at seances and more at old-fashioned ass-whups...