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Yes, I am sentimental, and yes, I love movies where kids are the better humans.
The story is personal, and at times sentimental, and is supported by strong digital animation and narration that involves the viewer in this science fiction story.
The actresses work was excellent and there was never an indication that their work would slip into the purely sentimental.
Jouvet practically stole the movie with wonderfully cynic and sentimental in the same time performance.
The story of the tough street kid discovering classical music and changing his ways was great to watch, without being sentimental or too unbelievable, although some details had me scratching my head (Frankie and his dog can live in the basement of the school without any of the students or teachers discovering him?
A sentimental, heart-tugging family film set in England of the 1920s.
It is a feel good movie, sentimental, positive, uplifting.
I guess I didn't find this movie to be "sentimental hogwash" as so many did, because it felt very real to me.
The characters are believable, the story poignant and the ending realistic, but not sentimental.
I heard and saw a powerful, exquisite, sometimes haunting, sometimes touching, lyrical, sentimental (in the truest way) and absolutely stunning blend of music and musicians.
I have seen this film on 3 different occasions.On the first occasion,I was bowled over by this film.It appeared as a very kind film to me.I hated this film as a sentimental garbage on my second viewing.However my third viewing reasserted my belief that it is a good film.There is a lot of emotional power in this film especially scenes of emotional confrontation between Mr Kramer and Madam Kramer.There are some scenes in which Meryl Streep appears a cruel person despite the fact that she is a beauty in real life.Dustin Hoffman appears as a lost hero unable to grapple with the recent task of his child's custody.There was even a controversy on the sets of this film.According to the master cameraman Nestor Almendros there was a shot in which he just escaped getting hurt as the character of Mr.Kramer,in order to show the intensity of his anger,decides to break a glass hard.Luckily nothing happened to Nestor.Kramer versus Kramer shows the destruction of a family structure.It also tells how family must be maintained if there are kids involved.
Instead this movie was not some sentimental mess.
He is financially irresponsible (spending, for instance, £15 of his last £20 in the world on a cute little terrier whom he names George), but open, wildly generous, contemptuous of lucre, irreverent in the politest possible way, and hopelessly sentimental.
A warmly sentimental tale from the author of The Waltons.
I am a lover of sentimental movies and this still hangs in my head after 35 years- it is that good.
It's inspirational, and even though some parts are a bit overly sentimental, that is easily forgiven.
This makes for an interesting view.....also in the fact that the script wasn't too sentimental or overdramatized - it's almost like looking at a slice of the past.
Although it is somehow typically German-movie-like sentimental, I think it's a great and very funny movie.
Even though he is required by the plot to sing some of the most mawkishly sentimental songs ever written, he does them so well one doesn't mind.
This is a sentimental favorite because it was my first Mel Brooks movie.
As in WATER, FIRE is deeply spiritual, even if it technically falls into the mode of sentimental melodrama (where WATER, much like the weight of the word, carries a stronger meaning that ultimately transcends its definition).
This movie will likely be too sentimental for many viewers, especially contemporary audiences.
At the beginning Leonard himself says he is not sentimental about his past, and then for the next hour and a half the film emphasizes all the worst sentimental elements of Leonard's songs.
Two: Horrible, overly sentimental script that could have been used in a Harold Lloyd movie its so cliched.
Even for farce, its silliness is lumbering, not much makes sense from scene to scene, and its sentimental messages are as phony as Affleck's grin.
The plot is sentimental mush.
I'm astonished that so few have commented on how utterly jingoistic, sentimental and trite the dialogue in this film really is.
Even as a made-for-TV documentary, the sentimental piano solos accompanying interviewees sitting in front of flower arrangements in hotel rooms and the pompous, pseudo-literary narration rang more true of a sleepapedic bed Infomercial.
A sentimental school drama set in Denmark, 1969, "We Shall Overcome" offers a pathetic Danish take on US culture.
I put it in my VCR and started up: Man this movie is really bad! Sylvester Stallone says like 3 words in the entire movie (except for that awful sentimental speech at the end), and has the same expression on his face all the way.
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