sentimentality (which is excessive or contrived) n.: bathos
A weepie, in movie-speak, is a film that relies on a strong dose of sentimentality for its forward momentum. . . . But what of a weepie that doesn’t work? . . . [Autumn in New York] manages to pull out all the mawkish stops without prompting in its viewers so much as a half-hearted sniffle. [The movie is] equal parts perversity and bathos. (Adina Hoffman, “An Affair to Forget,” Jerusalem Post, 1/12/2001.)
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