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Melodrama in sentence

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Based on a popular novel by Robert Wilder and an adaptation by George Zuckerman, it had all the elements that make an excellent melodrama: nymphomania, a large oil fortune, alcoholism, incest and a mild touch of homosexuality.
In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies in France.
Like another reviewer said, this movie is not a heavy melodrama, but it deals with harsh realities.
Louise Brooks gives a wonderful performance in this well-made French melodrama.
This Hong Kong filmed potboiler packs in more melodrama than week's worth of 'The Young & The Restless'.
"Written on the Wind" is a Douglas Sirk's melodrama.
I do not appreciate the excessive melodrama and sentimental scenes that go hand in hand with most Hindi and Tamil movies.
An excellent period murder melodrama, with Fontaine effectively playing against her earlier naive wallflower type, in a role that reportedly Olivia DeHavilland turned down.
Had this been the original 1914 version of TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (also starring Mary Pickford), I probably would have rated it a lot higher, as this sort of extreme melodrama and sentimentality was pretty typical of the teens.
Director Alfred Green's melodrama "Baby Face" with Barbara Stanwyck ranks as one of the more notorious of the Pre-Code movies.
However, it hardly matters, the melodrama Saura tries to impose upon his Carmen, because the Flamenco dancing and guitar music of the rehearsals_ which are 95% of the film _by some of the best known Flamenco dancers and musicians, more than repays the price of entry.
It's a complex role that Garfield carries off memorably in a great performance that keeps one watching in spite of the ever present syrupy melodrama.
Verhoeven's overheated, over-egged melodrama is a delicious blend of Hitchcock and David Lynch, full of OTT eroticism and religious imagery and an awful lot of the colour red.
There's magic kung-fu, college romance, sports, gangster action and some weepy melodrama for a topping.
Replete with unscientific EVERYTHING, scantily clad girls and plenty of melodrama, it's an enjoyable film, to those who appreciate this kind of stuff.
This period melodrama is one of Griffith's earliest claustrophobic films.
An overblown melodrama typical of its period (mid-1950s) and appropriate matinée food.
However, any further comparisons with neorealism would be misguided, for 'Panic in the Streets' is pure melodrama, of the best kind.
John Cusack gives a subdued and generally flawless performance, without going into caricature of a New Orleans dialect, or sliding into melodrama during the films climax.
mature intelligent and highly charged melodrama unbelivebly filmed in China in 1948.
First time screenwriter Kelly Masterson (with some modifications by director Sidney Lumet) has concocted a melodrama that explores just how fragmented a family can become when external forces drive the members to unthinkable extremes.
While her fight scenes were memorable, most of her acting reeks of melodrama.
But this is a totally character and emotional based drama, bordering on melodrama (however, without the conventions that bog down lesser ones), and with the style in the finest path of the budding film-noir movement, Visconti creates a debut that's as involving as any other neo-realist film.
Although technically a melodrama, we see lots of activities Eskimos are involved in, such as hunting, dancing, building igloos, etc.
The Matador is a witty, dark humored and suspenseful melodrama that rises way above mediocrity thanks to two very engaging and earnest performances from Pierce Brosnan, who has never ever been better than here, and the always reliable Greg Kinnear who has his best role here since playing Jack Nicholson's gay neighbor in As Good As It Gets.
WRITTEN ON THE WIND, directed by Douglas Sirk and released in 1956, is like all of Sirk's mid 50's films- pure melodrama.
Gundam wing lacks all of that stereotypical melodrama that you might think of when you think of anime, since the number of jokes made over the 17 hours would only be in the double digits, Gundam Wing gets right down to business.
Sam Wood adds some subtle touches to this well above average melodrama; Fontaine's luminous face supplies the rest.
Tarantino once remarked on a melodrama from the 1930s called Backstreet that "tragedy is like another character" in the film.
The same could be said- and not withstanding bringing up Tarantino- for Sidney Lumet's best work in years, a melodrama where character is of the utmost concern not simply because of what's at stake with the cast involved.
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