And Mr. Butler can't always resist sentimental endings.

By the time viewers are dabbing their eyes at the inevitable sentimental ending - come on, it's Christmas - this feels more like a family feature film than a TV programme.

Movies like "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life" have sentimental endings designed to create ersatz feelings of good will in the holiday season.

Though the writing was mostly comical, dramatic moments and sentimental endings were included in several episodes.

But Nabb is too austere a writer to give her tale a sentimental ending.

However I've heard that the sentimental ending was wholly Kubrick's idea but as it doesn't fit in with our ideas about Kubrick it's best to dump the blame elsewhere.

Minuses: the film's New Age spirituality, its sentimental ending, and Cage's lack of acting range.

Plus a sentimental ending.

I am a reader who should have hated this novel; yet I found it enchanting, and affecting, too, in spite of its sentimental ending.

Bleaker and more terrifying than "Schindler's List," this inky, nightmarish film has the atmosphere of a horror movie up until its sentimental ending.