Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[hobbes]

This is embarrassing, but I'm a sucker for parent/child relationship development in movies. So I admit, I bawled, like a baby at the end of both Big Fish and Life as a House. Realizing your parent was more than you ever gave them credit for? Gah.

Also, Glory, the very end, when you see Matthew Broderick charge in slow-mo, followed by Denzel? And after the final battle, with the mass grave and they're buried together? Niagara falls, Hobbesy-Angel.

[indygirl]

This isn't nearly as dramatic a moment, but I was watching Nanny McPhee last night and the scene where the would-be step mother snatches the silver rattle--a lone treasure from the children's deceased mother--out of the hands of the baby, I just teared up. The look of surprise on that baby's face just caught me off guard.

[andreajersey]

I seriously burst into tears watching Forrest Gump on TBS last night. Bubba had just been killed and Forrest said "Bubba was going to be a shrimp boat captain, but instead he died by a river in Vietnam." God, I am so lame.

[Shanmac]

No, andreajersey, I cannot watch "Forrest Gump" because of Bubba. And it just breaks my heart when Forrest says that -- so effing sad, but he's so matter-of-fact about it. Tom Hanks just knows how to make me cry -- I cry during the opera scene in "Philadephia," and I bawled like a baby when his character in "Saving Private Ryan" died. Oh, and he made me cry in "The Terminal" too -- when he's watching the scenes of chaos in his home country on TV, the look on his face is gut-wrenching. He's terrified and confused, and it reminded me so much of watching 9/11 unfold, and ... yeah. Cried like a little girl.

And I haven't seen "Nanny McPhee" yet, but the mental image of the rattle-snatching is so sad!

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What Dreams May Come, when Robin Williams is first in heaven and sees his dog.

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barrie said:

What Dreams May Come, when Robin Williams is first in heaven and sees his dog.

No matter how many times I have seen that it never fails to me me cry. Probably because I am hoping that when I die the first things I see I want to be all my pets.

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That movie doesn't make me cry, it makes me sob.

[mariposalabrown]

Ha!! I just came in here to say I cried my eyes out last night watching Forrest Gump. However, I cry at everything. Man, I was bawling the other night watching Cars when people started coming back to the old dusty town.

The hardest I ever cried, though, was in Bram Stoker's Dracula when Winona cut his head off. She did it out of love, people!! Man, I was a wreck the first time I saw that. I'm not even going to get into Home Alone, Hotel Rwanda, The Notebook, and Finding Nemo.

[andreajersey]

mariposalabrown said:

Ha!! I just came in here to say I cried my eyes out last night watching Forrest Gump. However, I cry at everything.

There are so many parts of that movie that make me cry; besides what I already mentioned, there's when Forrest meets his son for the first time, when Jenny dies, when Mama dies...no matter how many times I see it or how cheesy I know it in my heart to be, I freaking bawl every time.

[glitzee]

Most of the time when I cry during a movie, I kind of expect it to happen because it's a weepie. But what really gets me are scenes in movies like Children of Men when it totally comes out of left field.

The scene when Theo and Kee are making their way down the hallway in the refugee camp building with the baby? I totally lost it when one of the refugee women started singing, and also when I saw the reactions of the soldiers and other refugees.

Big Fish was another unexpected crying jag too. The first time I saw it in the theater, I was on a date and was mortified at my reaction. The next time, I was on a plane and should have known better, but I cried even harder!