He's the director and star of " The Horse Whisperer, " what seems, at first glance, to be this summer's designated romantic weepie.
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"For Love of the Game " is a women's baseball weepie as surely as " Field of Dreams " was a three-hankie hitter for men.
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And Almodovar, being to the weepie born, presents this womanly melodrama with an empathy to recall George Cukor's and an eye-dampening intensity to out-Sirk Douglas Sirk.
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But then there's the bad part _ a kind of glorified TV-movie weepie where Lanie learns to be a better human being . ( ERG ) 1 hour, 44 minutes.
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And Torre whips the picture into a weepie's fury as the moody score detonates into a noirish crescendo of saxophone and strings, a chic approximation of Oliver Nelson's film music.
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In many ways, it's a standard, predictable weepie, but there's a " Memento-ish " twist and, at the end, Garner will break your heart.
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In the 1970s, it was the lusty makeout classic " Go All the Way " ( with power pop group the Raspberries ) and the solo weepie " All by Myself ."
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Interesting what-might-have-been trivia : Veronica Cartwright ( the big-eyed weepie ) was originally slated for Weaver's role, and the first-choice director was Walter Hill.
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But basically, " An Affair to Remember " struck me as a good example of a certain kind of glossy Women's Weepie that was immensely popular in the'40s and'50s.
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But " Fleeing the Night " is the kind of old-fashioned, grown-up weepie in which the hearts of men and women are cracked, and the shards flutter through the story.
