From the archives: Our love of tearjerkers

Call them tearjerkers, call them weepies, call them “women’s pictures”: Movies with highly emotional stories aren’t, sadly, Hollywood’s go-to genre these days. In this “Sunday Morning” story that originally aired February 27, 2011, correspondent Mo Rocca talked with producer Lynda Obst (“Sleepless in Seattle,” “The Fisher King”) about what studio executives are likely to greenlight at a time when action films and superhero movies rule the box office. Rocca also talks with actor James Caan, who starred in one of the weepiest of tearjerkers, “Brian’s Song”; and with critic Leonard Maltin, who describes the value of having “a good cry” at the movies.

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