(This is a grossly sentimental movie posing as irreverent.)

He didn't want the project to come off, he adds, "as too sentimental or a buddy movie."

This sentimental movie - defined mostly by staring attention to photographs of Goldman - doesn't clarify much.

This would normally be a recipe for a disastrously sentimental movie.

As I understand it, that is the normal experience of the human race, popular novels and sentimental movies that rely upon lucky coincidence nothwithstand-ing.

They see an idyllic, sentimental movie, with beautiful landscapes, showing a rare white man who respects American Indians.

And make sentimental movies about it.

This sentimental movie is one of those potential crowd-pleasers that want to wrap old age and death into a cozy blanket.

Now the actor has gone that final step, as the star and director of "Bridges," a purely sentimental movie.

Contrary to what countless Hallmark cards and sentimental movies have claimed over the years, such an emotion is, in fact, quantifiable.