Pardero sat to the side of the recreation hall, watching a comic melodrama on the holovision screen.

Mr. Leconte's spare, weighted comic melodrama is satisfying in a high-protein, low-carb sort of way.

Ms. Marnich does send clues that she is after something more profound than a feel-good comic melodrama.

Seen apart from its musical-comedy context, this comic melodrama seems an awkwardly constructed fragment from a longer entity.

Moments of comic melodrama are scored with the sort of music favored by soap operas.

Philip Neal made his debut in this comic melodrama.

Mr. Cuarón has returned to Mexico to fashion another corrosive, comic melodrama.

This exaggerated angle gives the commanding backward lean of Rodin's original pose an air of comic melodrama.

If you didn't know any better, you might assume that the comic melodrama "Dinner Rush" was the work of a prodigy.

These two preliminary films depict the nurse in comic melodramas involving men in positions of power and traditional female romantic roles.