Sentence:  [M]ostly the moviegoer has to put up with clumsily contrived fist fights, musical brogues spoken as though the actor were coping with an excess of tobacco juice in his mouth, mugging that plays up all the trusted <WSD>hokums</WSD> that are supposed to make the Irish so humorous-sympathetic, and a script that tends to resolve its problems by having the cast embrace, fraternity-brother fashion, and break out into full-throated ballads. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (An instance of) excessively contrived, hackneyed, or sentimental material in a film, television programme, theater production, etc.