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Melodrama in sentence

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Mitchum smolders, as usual, though his character here is just a thumbnail sketch, and the melodrama inherent in this scenario is far beneath him.
Story-wise, it would have been better off set anywhere between the Fifties, because technically it's akin to the much better FAR FROM HEAVEN in melodrama, or even when this type of movies came into vogue during the period going from the late Seventies into the early Nineties.
How strange that this Pro-Serb melodrama and the over the top Saving Private Ryan, are held up as the two great 1990's films about war.
Battle Cry - from beer to eternity- this Raoul Walsh directed ode to the marines is a long slog-148 minutes- and most of it is spent following the marines on liberty and their love lives.Some of it works- Aldo Ray is surprisingly effective as big lumberjack who falls for the New Zealand gal - but for the most part this overwrought melodrama follows lesser lights like Tab Hunter.Based on a script by Leon M. Uris and featuring a score by Max Steiner this movie is over-sentimental and a middling soap opera.James Whitmore does a good job as Mac the Sargent and Raymond Massey is fine in his cameo as a general-but for the most part this is a less glamorous and more plodding retake on the From Here to Eternity vibe.The DVD has a trailer and text retrospective on Walsh's directorial career.Avoid this like a landmine.
Although I heard that there were many differences between the real life Rocky Dennis and his movie counterpart and in spite of melodrama and some cloying touchy feely cuteness , "Mask" often feels like real life , which can be both comforting and disturbing, especially considering that real people can and did have the disease presented in the movie (with frighteningly realistic makeup).
Jeff Daniels, an ordinarily fine actor, is totally wasted is this plotless melodrama which was apparently written by someone who couldn't sleep.
This is a turgid melodrama, very loosely based on a Maugham story and designed to appeal to people during the Second World War.
The difference between making the movie today, than back then, would be the lack of melodrama between the William and Damita character (heck! it was the era of the woman's picture) Formulaic stuff but good formula all the same with an unusually expensive look (good cinematography, tons of location shooting, great sets, lots of wide shots) for a WB thirties picture tells you this was probably an expected blockbuster in the year of 1932.
Aloof, disjointed melodrama has stars Kirk Douglas, Deborah Kerr and Faye Dunaway suffering in a well-heeled vacuum.
There are many timeless issues and interesting characters in this first-rate melodrama.
"Forbidden" is no doubt pure melodrama.
Surely, the Joan Crawford in this laughably over-the-top 1953 melodrama must have been Faye Dunaway's direct inspiration for her lacerating impersonation of the screen legend in "Mommie Dearest".
It is a well-made melodrama that exposes little about the 'real' Hollywood.
Talk about over use of melodrama.
I'm not a big fan of Crawford, but I truly believe she is a better actress than what people give her credit for and I think she tries her best to improve this ridiculous melodrama.
The famed Otto Preminger produces and directs this melodrama written by Ben Hect and Andrew Solt.
If 'Vengo' was screened on some world music channel, the viewers would have objected to the useless melodrama that deprived them of some thirty minutes of great music and dance.
The rest is a very skinny gypsy revenge melodrama, not complex and interesting enough to sustain a big screen movie.
While audiences left the cinema entranced by the glorious melodrama of "Imitation of Life" and "Written on the Wind", they would have left "There's Always Tomorrow" feeling a lot less secure about their own lives, since it's a film that touches on a fair amount of "dangerous" territory, calling into question the very foundations of the American family.
How can you fix a film that has... -too much opera for horror fans, -too creepy ending for opera fans, -too little action for Karloff fans, -too much Karloff for melodrama fans, -and a director who seems content with showcasing his lavish sets and the relatively new Technicolor process?
It features uncharismatic leads, soapy melodrama, generic club music, and teeth-gnashing dialogue.
Cheesy melodrama set during the time after the fall of Battista in Cuba.
One of the greatest casts ever assembled help this, otherwise turgid, melodrama to chug along for over two and a half hours, (three, if you are unlucky enough to catch the US video version), but they still can't manage to lift it above the level of a second rate television movie.
But LAMERICA's lessons are taught without moralizing or melodrama or preachy dialog.
Not being sufficiently versed in the actual history I suspect the relation between Marie and Powers' Count Axel was blown up or perhaps even invented for drawing power, and indeed I find the film's weakest parts the rather purple moments between the two which do seem to encroach into the realm of melodrama.
Most of this movie is the sort of mindless melodrama Hollywood and Paris produced in abundance in the 1930s.
Still, there's enough fluttery melodrama on display in the picture's first-half to make it worth-seeing for Davis-buffs, though the second-half concerning a spreading epidemic lacks urgency.
Exceptional, affecting melodrama about small-town life in America.
An attempt to make a modern-dress Gothic melodrama that is just not successful.
Once upon a time there was this sincere, but painfully dated, hippie era melodrama called SUNBURST about life and love and the importance of getting back to nature to find yourself... Then comes the video boom era of the 1980s and a rising star emerging in the horror genre for playing a certain facially-scarred predator who kills teenagers in their sleep.
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