tearjerker

But viewers may be more inclined to weep at how this would-be tearjerker relies on its remarkable star to uplift an otherwise insufferable film.

That plot description doesn’t exactly suggest a heartfelt tearjerker of a movie.

Haigh’s work does for me what the filmmaker says a torch song or a tearjerker does for him: “That is the thing that makes me feel less alone,” he says.

The dying professor has our concern, though this is not a medical drama or conventional tearjerker by any means.

In the series, Mazin and Druckmann create a romantic backstory for the two characters, creating one of the series’ most talked about tearjerker episodes.