But as the title suggests, the film is also about overcoming adversity and arriving at emotional uplift, a formula not unfamiliar to its co-writer and director, Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote and directed the Kevin Costner movie "Field of Dreams".
Jenson Button said his family and friends had made his "last" race in Formula One an emotional experience here on Sunday.
All this adds up to a formula for enhanced emotional well-being and physical health as well.
So a simple formula, and the emotional lyrics they tend to encapsulate, unites Adele's unfiltered love letters, Barry Manilow's show-tunesy ditties, and Poison's gravelly insights.
Skilled facilitation of interactive discussions with individuals, families or groups regardless of feeding intention, which cover the practical and emotional realities of breast and formula feeding and involve parents who have had feeding difficulties and not always lived up to ideals.
The problem here is that the equity risk premium is driven not by some fixed mathematical formula but by shifting emotional preferences for or against uncertain earnings (with potential opportunity) versus safer fixed-income flows.
Think New Coke and the way they successfully reintroduced Coca-Cola Classic in 1985 when they 'discovered' the strong emotional connection consumers had with their original formula.
"It was never going to work," Blair writes of Brown's three years in No 10, arguing that the former chancellor had "zero emotional intelligence" and fatally abandoned the New Labour formula.
Physicians have used this formula for depression and for emotional problems.
Uproar greeted revelations about Facebook's "emotional contagion" experiment (where it tweaked mathematical formulae driving the news feeds of 700,000 of its members in order to prompt different emotional responses).
Our instructions to speakers include: substance matters more than performance; personal connection may be good, emotional manipulation is not; and there is no formula.
