The tender story, with its frank and unashamed assault on the emotions, still has its effective moments at times when the sentiment doesn’t grow a little too thick.
If anything, it has hauled back much too briskly on the strings of the heart and has strained a few muscles in the process.
60
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
This one, directed by Mervyn LeRoy for MGM, can get more than a little sappy as we watch this house of pretty adolescents take pretty steps toward their destinies, but it's also affectionately rendered. [15 Dec 1994, p.20]