tearjerker

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tearjerker
    n 1: an excessively sentimental narrative
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "tearjerker":
      bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers,
      maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby,
      namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania,
      oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment,
      sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush,
      soap opera, sob story, sweetness and light

    

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