feel-good film

The sweep represented a vote for traditional Hollywood values as the feel-good film triumphed over the rawer, more experimental "Pulp Fiction," which won only one award.

Alok Kumar of Planet Bollywood called it "a feel-good film that takes feeling good to new heights."

It is a feel-good film about feel-good films.

Director Penny Marshall, who made the joyous Big and the very moving Awakenings, has crammed as many cliches as is possible into this feel-good little film.

Interscope's most recent feel-good film, "Roommates," hit the theaters last February and sank without a trace.

The result is a feel-good film, "Mad Hot Ballroom," that follows three elementary schools as they compete with mounting passion for the ballroom dance trophy.

It isn't necessarily difficult to find feel-good films to screen.

Stephen Daldry's feel-good film combines gritty realism with Capra-style whimsy, reports Xan Brooks.

Following a pattern that goes way back, tear-jerkers, soap operas and feel-good films end up overtaking serious, substantial contenders.

Anna Nimouse of National Review wrote that the "film is praised as a 'feel-good' film, perhaps for moviegoers who like bamboo under their fingernails.