He's one of the best, though not necessarily when dealing with Big Issues, which, as in " Schindler's List " and " Amistad, " he simplifies and sentimentalizes.
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Worse, the film sentimentalizes him as a soulful family man, whose most important priority would have been to be a good father to his daughter if the government weren't being so obtuse about this drug thing.
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Arguably the world's longest greeting card, " The Bridges of Madison County " sentimentalizes the four-day affair between an Italian-born, middle-aged farm wife whose passionate nature has long been dormant and a ridiculously romantic drifter.
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The film sentimentalizes his mother, Julia ( you might as well stop counting song titles ), who lived nearby with her new husband and family but taught John the guitar by playing the banjo and who was hit by a car and killed when he was 17.
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But some close to Charles take issue with the factual liberties in " Ray . " David Ritz, who co-wrote Charles'1978 biography, " Brother Ray, " recently wrote in the online magazine Slate that the film sentimentalizes Charles'troubled marriage and eventual divorce.
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"Boogie Nights " sentimentalizes its characters enough to be popular and dances away from the sleazy and dangerous side of the porn industry, although it does include a scene in which another backer, played by Robert Ridgely, is jailed because one of his underage consorts ODs.
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While this emphasis places the immigrant urban working class at the center of the American story _ a fairly radical notion in itself _ the film hardly sentimentalizes the insurrection, which was both a revolt against local and federal authority and a vicious massacre of the black citizens of New York.
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But unlike, say, " The Hangover ", which sweetens and sentimentalizes its man-child characters allowing them to run wild and then run home to Mommy " Hot Tub Time Machine " is honest in its coarseness and pretty tough on the fellows who are the agents and objects of its satire ."
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Golda Meir ( portrayed by Bancroft ) enjoys comparable status as the country's dominant matriarch, a human dynamo and genius at fund-raising and statecraft . But the movie sentimentalizes her relationship with President John F . Kennedy, implying that her Jewish maternal hominess seduced him into avowing a special relationship between the United States and Israel.
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You can bracket the arc of the Western with two shots of John Wayne's face _ open, hopeful, and energized in " Stagecoach " ( 1939 ), twisted by hate and alienated from civilization in " The Searchers " ( 1956 ), arguably Ford's greatest Western because it strips away any hint of bonhomie that sentimentalizes the racist violence behind the so-called winning of the West.
