It was a bittersweet tale, pulling from his reluctant eyes trickles of tart brine that tasted like the sea.

It stars Billy Wirth and Jennifer Rubin in a bittersweet tale about 6 former classmates gathering 24 hours before their 20th high school reunion.

The fictions are typical Keillor, bittersweet tales of ordinary folks that remind us that nobody is ordinary.

The bittersweet episodic tale of an ultra-dedicated locomotive engineer uneasily transitioning into retirement provides warm and gently humorous entertainment.

Last year our reviewer, Bill Henderson, said these stories "are typical Keillor, bittersweet tales of ordinary folks that remind us that nobody is ordinary."

A bittersweet tale of a gourmet Italian restaurant on the Jersey shore that fails in the spaghetti-and-meatballs 50's, "Big Night" was an unlikely candidate for box office success.

It's the bittersweet, melodramatic tale of a beautiful young woman who comes to the big city (in this case Milan) to seek her fortune.

And yes, there is much to admire in this bittersweet tale of one woman's triumph of the will.

In short vignettes that each turn on a particular problem of early adolescence, June tells a bittersweet tale of wisdom hard won, without her mother, in a town not home.

It is a quest narrative, a domestic drama, a bittersweet tale of homecoming - and also, as every popular movie must be these days, an occasion for culture-war skirmishing.