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What does melodrama mean?

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Noun
  1. (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
  2. (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks
  3. (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
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Hidden somewhere deep in these two gushy hours of melodrama lie the makings of a vaguely watchable film.
Both films are based on the juxtaposition of farce and melodrama and the comedy that arises from role-playing and role-switching.
By giving her a love interest, the movie fits into more traditional representations of women in the filmic genre of the woman's melodrama.
Instinctive, impulsive melodies meet melancholia and melodrama in gay tales of arch commentary and frank observation.
It invites us to join the melodrama, keying our responses to the silly excess of the movie itself.
Only the writers get the virtual slap on the wrist for artificially inserting too much melodrama into a story that should have been a comic romp.

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