Lilly (Alison Walter) has finally escaped a horrible relationship and has found the courage to tell the world on social media. That’s something that Tom (Sam Brittan) is just licking up. I mean, he literally is, because he’s the Tearsucker of the title, a maniac who lives for the taste of women’s tears.

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Tom is the kind of guy that goes to support groups to do homework to better figure out how to break women down. So when Lilly falls for him, you want to warn her. And when she quickly decides to go away for the weekend with him, you want to scream at her.

Director Stephen Vanderpool fixates on tight shots of faces often in this and it works. He’s working from a script by  Brittan that gives more to its antagonist than its protagonist, although her one speech online is heart rendering. The romance moves a bit fast from Lilly being shattered to her falling for a stranger, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Even if it’s to lick the salty tears off someone’s face.

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