Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[dwanollah]

gingerdangerous said:

Can I ruin it for you? In the book, Papa stays dead.

Are you serious!?! What kind of children's book is that! Ew.

His best friend, Sara's "Uncle Tom," is the one with brain fever in the book, and adopts her. Of course, in this day and age, having Papa's "best friend" adopt you is skeevy. And back then, if the book was written by anyone but Burnett, Sara would've grown up and married Uncle Tom.

[jennipoo]

I don't know if anyone remembers this movie but I bawl like a baby whenever I watch Savannah Smiles. When she returns to her parents and has to say goodbye to Bootsie? Man, it just kills me.

I had no idea that other people knew about this movie! My babysitter had it on those huge laser disks when I was a kid. I had to stop watching it the older I got... it just wrenched my heart out.

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Sound of Music always makes me cry when Captain V. T. sings Edelwiess, chokes up, and Mrs. VT has to finish it up with him. I love their marriage and am also deeply patriotic.

We Are Marshall made me cry super hard, too.

I don't like sappy stuff, I only cry at what my husband calls "boy things" like sports movies and patriotic things.

And since losing my grandfather and observing the advanced age of my grandma--all things grandparent kill me.

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ernestine said:

In Mask when Cher is trying to write a letter to her son who is at camp but she's too high to do it and she's so flustered and she dictates this really childish letter to Sam Elliott to send for her. It's so pathetic, and you really get the feeling that despite what a lowlife she is, she really does adore her son and want to do right by him, she just has no idea how to do it. I always start crying during this part.

Cher deserved an Oscar for this movie.

I agree.

The scene at the camp always makes me cry. Rocky shows a blind girl what colors "look like" by using things like cotton balls for white, and a cold baked potato or cold dirt for brown, and they have a great romance then her parents come to get her and see his face and I just lose it.

[fantagrape]

Speaking of crying at sports things, mrsbowling, I cry in Field of Dreams when Burt Lancaster walks into the corn and from the time Ray realizes the catcher is his father until the end.

Word to the tearjerker scenes in Steel Magnolias, The Color Purple, and The Sixth Sense. Also:

The Killing Fields multiple times: When Dith Pran has to leave the French Embassy, when Schanberg is watching film of the fighting while listening to the Nessun Dorma, and when they meet again at the end.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - at the end when Chief smothers McMurphy and throws the basin threw the window and escapes and Christopher Lloyds character is cheering silently
Dead Poet's Society at the end when Ethan Hawks character stands on the desk, and says "Oh Captain My Captain" and the other students join him.
Titanic, never for Jack and Rose, but when the quartet starts 'Playing Nearer My God To Thee" and the mother is reading to her children in bed and the old couple lay down in bed together and hold each other.

[muffinette]

Only two movies, ever, have made me cry. What can I say? I am dead inside.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was the one of the only movies I had ever seen that showed a relationship realistically, with all the emotional nuances. For the first time, I believed in a movie couple. Of course the hubby was 4,000 miles away on a business trip, and I had the flu so bad that I couldn't muster up the energy to get up off the couch, and I was so lonely. I cried throughout that whole entire stupid movie. I have never been able to watch it again.

And, um.... Um. The other movie, is, um.

Babe 2. When that horrible woman across the street calls the animal control people, and they come and take the animals away. And the animals try to run away, but they can't outrun men with giant nets, and they keep trying to run and hide and the men hunt them down one by one. It's sad, I tell you!

[aims]

The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. I've seen it tons of times already but I cry every single time Aslan dies.

[RabbitEars]

Watership Down. My username is an ode to my pet rabbits, and a friend years ago bought me the movie, thinking I would like it. I bawled my eyes out during Simon & Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" scene, and I never, ever watched it again. I gave it away, and I won't even listen to the song itself. Apparently, I can't handle harm coming to fluffy little rabbits.

Lilo & Stitch. It was on TV one night when my then-boyfriend was out of town, and when the little monster was imitating the story of the ugly duckling, going to the woods to call out, "I'm lost!" hoping for others of his kind? I was a mess. I think I was a mess for the rest of the weekend.

[india7]

My God.... with all due respect to your friend, why would *anyone* think that a rabbit-lover and owner would enjoy Watership Down? I mean, didn't they see what happens to the bunnies? I'm sure your friend meant well, but I can understand why you got rid of it!

[duskwolf]

rabbitears said:

Lilo & Stitch. It was on TV one night when my then-boyfriend was out of town, and when the little monster was imitating the story of the ugly duckling, going to the woods to call out, "I'm lost!" hoping for others of his kind? I was a mess. I think I was a mess for the rest of the weekend.

See, I'm just like you there...I mean, every time I see it, I always well up around that time. And I keep thinking I'm gonna be strong and not cry this time, but then Nani is trying to tell Lilo that Lilo is going to be taken away the next day (actually, I think it's the other way around, but I swear...double whammy of sad right about there) and BOOM! Tearsville ahoy!

Also, I get really teary during Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind when JC and KW are under a sheet and JC is trying to hold onto that one memory of them and he says something like "Please let me keep this one." Gah!