Soap opera, often

• Manipulatively maudlin movie
• Pathetic play
• Moving picture?
• Excessively sentimental tale
• "Terms of Endearment" e.g.

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alt. (context informal English) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, real-life story, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance. n. (context informal English) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ His latest movie is a typical Hollywood tearjerker .

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" Tearjerker " is the tenth episode of the fourth season of the animated comedy series American Dad! . It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 13, 2008. As the episode follows a story based entirely from a James Bond film, each American ...