Movie Moments that Make You Cry

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Parts of the Black Stallion still make me misty-eyed today.

The part that does it for me is the final race, where Black has a memory of just galloping on the desert island beach. My eyes are leaking now! I know that if I were watching it for real, my tears would be projectile sobs.

Also, the bookstore scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where the books slowly start turning backwards ruined me.

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And when I saw The Wedding Singer for the first time, I cried when Robbie sang to Julia on the airplane. That was freakin' beautiful man.

I was openly crying at the end of the film (and laughing because of the awesome final appearance of Buscemi!!) and my friend was all "WTF? It was obvious that they were going to end up together." Well, OF COURSE they were going to end up together, but I didn't know it would be so sweet. I love that movie. (See also: Romantic Movies thread)

I cried like a baby at the almost ending of Before Sunset. When Celine plays Jesse the waltz she wrote and her voice and guitar chords are a little clumsy and halting... Oh man. I broke down. The whole movie was so bittersweet and angry in a strange and unexpected way and it really surprised and moved me. I wasn't expecting such an emotional film from the sequel to Before Sunrise.

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I cried for almost an hour after watching My Dog Skip...specially the scene at the end where the dad, Kevin Bacon, helps an old, arthritic Skip get on Frankie Muniz's bed...and then we learn that when Skip died, the parents buried him wrapped in Frankie's baseball jacket....

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I cried in Diary of a Mad Black Woman when that guy's wife gets saved in church right in the middle of the aisle. Yes I know it's a cliche, but it got me anyway. Damn you Tyler Perry and your melodramatics.

[mirwebb]

plush said:

Might not have been a perfect movie and know that I was very young when I saw it, but I cried so much when I first saw The Champ. The last scene when the boy is sitting at his dead father's bed.*sniff, sniff*

Geez, I was totally going to agree and say, "That Jackie Coogan, he always makes me cry," but I see now that that was Jackie COOPER in The Champ, and Jackie Coogan was in The Kid. I never realized they were different until just now. I should've, probably, what with the almost-10-year time between the two, but I never thought about it, really. (Always good to learn something new, I guess!) ANYWAY.

But now that I'm here, The Kid does make me cry every damn time, what with poor little Jackie reaching out for Chaplin as the cops cart him off to the orphanage. Augh.

Also, The Iron Giant not only makes me cry, just the fact that I know I'm going to cry sets me off, so by now I just start at the beginning and keep on 'til the end. It's all Cartoon Network's fault, what with the marathon and all--'cause I caught at least the last half five times in one day, and it killed me.

The hardest I've ever cried, though--possibly in my life, much less in a movie--was at the end of Wit, with Emma Thompson. God, when her professor/colleague (don't recall, as I was crying too fucking hard) sits by her bed reading "The Runaway Bunny," I was actually sobbing. (I cried so hard I thought I was going to throw up, which I perversely use as a reason to get my family to see it.)

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mirwebb said:

plush said:

Might not have been a perfect movie and know that I was very young when I saw it, but I cried so much when I first saw The Champ. The last scene when the boy is sitting at his dead father's bed.*sniff, sniff*

Geez, I was totally going to agree and say, "That Jackie Coogan, he always makes me cry," but I see now that that was Jackie COOPER in The Champ, and Jackie Coogan was in The Kid. I never realized they were different until just now. I should've, probably, what with the almost-10-year time between the two, but I never thought about it, really. (Always good to learn something new, I guess!) ANYWAY.

I mean the one with Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Rick Schroder not the previous version which I haven't seen.


Last time I remember crying was when I watched The Sea Inside, Spanish, about a person paralyzed from the neck down asking the Gov't to allow him to commit suicide. I cried my eyes out and I don't think you can sit through that movie and not cry. It is that hard

[hal9000]

I saw Babe for the first time on the weekend since it was in the cinema.

"That'll do, pig. That'll do.
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[duskwolf]

I'm with hal9000. When the farmer sings to the pig, I am blubbering like a baby.

I also saw "The Iron Giant" fairly recently. I still get misty when I think of the line "Like Superman..." (Damn you, Vin Diesel!)

I get extremely misty during the whole scene in "LA Story" when Enya's "Exile" is playing.

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I also cry, reliably, every time I hear Vin Diesel crank out, "I am not a gun" or "Suuperrrmaaannn...." (as he closes his robot eyes) in The Iron Giant! And I was just talking to my brother the other day about how that Sarah McLachlan song in Toy Story 2, as Jessie the Cowgirl is left behind by her now-grown-up owner in a cardboard box, also chokes me up -- and how much I hate that!

I cried for half an hour after Syriana because I felt so overwhelmed by all the things I wish I could change but know I can't, despite my continued best efforts. (And I'm hardly politically naive, so it wasn't as if it was "news" to me, but all the ways in which the threads were brought together and torn apart made me freak out about the enormity of the situation.)

I also cry at the end of The Legend of Billie Jean, after she knees Pyle in the crotch and then stands back to watch his tent --and her effigy (so Joan of Arc!)-- burn, as all the beachgoers who had also bought souvenirs of her rebel image toss their purchases into the fire. It's that scene, and the Pat Benetar them song "Invincible," that get to me every damn time.

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mirwebb, I totally agree with you about Wit. I watched it in college one afternoon (luckily by myself) and not only was it a moving film, but it just reminded me of my uncle who died of cancer about a year before. I don't think I've ever cried so much/hard before in my life. I'm talking body wracking sobs and trying not to get so upset only made it worse.

When I took my little brother to see The Iron Giant in the theater I also bawled and he sat there in his patient way until the credits were done and I composed myself enough to walk through the lobby with a stuffed up nose and bloodshot eyes.

And my bf wonders why I only watch comedies/action flicks in his company...