tearjerker
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John Cho delivers a heartbreaking performance in the terrific if bittersweet father/daughter tearjerker, "Don't Make Me Go," directed by Hannah Marks.
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Streaming services and syndication promise that we should always be able to find it until the next broad-appealing tearjerker reveals itself, whenever that may be.
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Other tearjerker moments are products of artistic license, as one is apt to liberally employ in a show like this.
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As a child I found it long-winded, melodramatic, and a manipulative kind of tearjerker, even if I didn't use those exact words.
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I think of tragic movie characters in tearjerker films.
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