Words similar to tear-jerker

Example sentences for: tear-jerker

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Reviewers concede the made-for-TV tawdriness of this AIDS movie starring Robert Sean Leonard, Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, and Whoopi Goldberg: pat characters and a tear-jerker plot.
Critics call this tear-jerker manipulative and trite, deriding its mandatory sing-along-to-Motown-hits female bonding scene, stiff-upper-lipping by Sarandon, etc.