A tightly wound Midwestern family brought together by the death of their mother sounds like a recipe for a bad three-hanky picture.
It may not send you out of the theatre on a high, but this is a genuine three-hankie theatrical experience.
A minor-league icon, her popularity had little to do with her acting, resting instead on appearances in a few great films and an off-screen life as tumultuous as a three-hankie melodrama.
James writes what she likes to read, intense three-hanky stories which take advantage of their historical setting to create and sustain the conflict between hero and heroine.
Hardcore romantics will be won over regardless, but it would have been nice if Jeunet have exercised greater discipline in telling his two lovers' three-hanky story.
All the three-hanky flicks are there to tell us to seize the day and not let opportunities or friendships pass you by.
The whole film culminates in a three-hanky scene that is entirely satisfying from a narrative stand-point but feels utterly hollow.
If there is such a thing as a three-hanky film, A Woman of Paris is it.
A special romance takes off from there, and proceeds to a three-hanky ending.
When I saw the cover of Crystal River, I was expecting a tired, three-hanky melodrama.
Even though Terms Of Endearment has many three-hankie moments, it's got a very offbeat sense of humor that men might enjoy.
I can think of no better way to start the new year than by pointing to this three-hanky weeper.
While the reviews were rather mixed, the film would endure as a cult romance, now cherished as a three-hankie classic.
Paul Cox's wise, open-hearted story of a man and woman who meet many, many decades after they first fell in love is a three-hanky weepy of the highest order.