Possible Clues:

• Tearjerker take-along
• Cloth used for personal wiping
• Tearjerker watcher's item
• It's useful if one breaks down
• Cryers convenience
• Cloth with tears in it?
• Piece of cloth that is attached to loop
• Big actor falling short -- that is what you need for a sad movie
• It may be given with a blessing
• Handful of hair perhaps that is something for wiping nose