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weepie

n. (context colloquial English) A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience.

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He asked Maxine what movie it was -- some Rock Hudson weepie -- in which a man was covered up this way.

How much easier if the miscreant would confess of his own free will, instead of compelling his friend to denounce him: a sentimental solution, I thought sardonically, which happened only in weepie films.