What is a tearjerker?

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Noun
  1. (informal) 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.
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For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept.
The author recounts this moving affair, which is a true tearjerker, in a new way.
The unsubtle way that this obvious tearjerker attempts to align us against the corporation is almost unbearable.
How do you prevent a film about such a delicate subject as children's cancer from becoming a tearjerker?
George Cloooney is the firm's 4-5 favourite for his role in Hawaiibased tearjerker The Descendants with Brad Pitt the 28-1 outsider.
Kinart put it into words, 'A single theme can become a tearjerker in one poem and something truly emotional, universal or poetic in the other.

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