Movie Moments that Make You Cry

[niddlemiddle]

The film that makes me bawl, like a baby..
In "Sophie's Choice", when she hands her daughter over to the Nazi's. I can't watch it... it's just too heart-breaking.

[iceblink]

I was already mostly dehydrated by this point in the movie, but in The Pianist, when the officer so casually takes off his coat and hands it over? I completely dissolved.

[Sunnyhorse]

I cry at everything -- I'm sitting here crying just reading this thread -- but the film that messed me up the worst was "Contact." We saw it in the theater and loved it, and then, a year later, it was on HBO. Unfortunately, it was also a week after my dad died. I'd forgotten about the scene in which Jodie Foster's character (as a child) is trying to radio her father after he dies. I made some excuse to Mr. Sunnyhorse about needing something in the other room, and then I went into the bathroom and sobbed. I wanted so badly to see my dad again, and I knew exactly how that little girl felt, even though I was 20 years older than she.

[ernestine]

OT, Gah, I LOATHE Dumbo. The scene with her rocking her baby IS sad, but the entire movie is so horrible, I won't let my kids watch it. The faceless, black roustabouts putting up the tents. The elephants who immediately despise a BABY because he's different. The jive talking crows, the way everyone loves Dumbo at the end, when he can fly and bring in customers to the circus-- Ugh. It's racist, it's manipulative, and it has the same message as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer-- if you are different, we shall hate you until you show us what you can do for us.

On topic, I cry during the end of 50 First Dates when Drew Barrymore meets her daughter for the first time that she can remember ("Oh my GOODNESS!"), Terms of Endearment gets me everytime. That's SUCH a good movie, and during her acceptance speech for her oscar, Shirley MacLaine said, "I deserve this." And I couldn't agree more. Everyone was great in this movie, but she just shone.

Disney movies always get me. I cry when Mufasa dies in The Lion King. I cry when the emperor bows to Mulan at the end of the movie. I cry when Quasimodo is tied in the square and they are throwing things at him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame... I have no shame crying during cartoons. It's embarrassing when I do this and my kids do not.

[WitchyPoo]

The sequence in Toy Story when Jessie the Cowgirl tells her story about being boxed up and given away by her owner and Sarah McLachlan is singing. I welled up but my husband was full on crying in the theatre. It really hit him because when he was a kid his father decided my husband was too old for his stuffed animals. His father boxed them all up and threw them out. So, I started crying and we both were crying. It was so sad.

[beetlemier]

Losing Isaiah - when Halle Barry's character decides that Isaiah should still get to see Jessica Lange's character because she's the only Mom he ever knew. And she takes him to Jessica Lange and he screams, "Mommy!" and runs into her arms? Crap, man, I haven't watched the movie ever again because I cried so hard.

Totally with you on Apollo 13. I can't help it. When NASA erupts in applause and so many things went wrong on that mission and yet all of those people worked so hard to bring these men home and they succeeded! A happy ending + true story = a blubbering mess of beetlemier.

[lulu622]

Suffice it to say that I cry at appliance commercials so you can imagine what movies do to me.

Here is my list - which at some point will be extended of movies that make me sob. The funny thing is I just had this conversation with my friends at school just recently and I was happy to see that actually some of the guys admitted to crying at films.

Cinema Paradiso- the end of the movie is the most beautiful film ending ever.
Hotel Rwanda - it makes me so ashamed of how little was done then and how little is being done now in Darfur.
Finding Neverland - the end of the movie just gets me
Joy Luck Club - all the sisters have to do is say "Mei Mei" and I am done.
Steel Magnolias - made my dad cry too and he never cries over films
Sense & Sensibility - the scene where Marianne is sick, makes me fall apart
Moulin Rouge - when Satine goes, I am off
Crash - when the father tells the daughter the story of the invisible cape, it is one of he most wonderful stories

[firstaid]

Ok, I first have to say that even though I am not a very emotional person in real life, I am the biggest cry baby when it comes to the "sad" or "emotional" moments in movies. Please don't laugh at me because of some of my choices y'all.

TOPGUN When Goose (Anthony Edwards) dies in the training mission, it makes me tear up every single time.

GLORY When Denzel Washington plays a runaway slave who gets captured and gets a horrific whipping as a punishment. I start crying when he starts crying. There was just so much emotion in that scene.

AMELIE When the old man on the video tape tells her to essentially go after the man she loves before it is too late.

SIXTH SENSE The infamous scene in the car when the little boy tells his mother that he sees dead people and that his grandmother is very proud of her.

FINDING NEMO Yes!! that damn cartoon fish made me cry. The scene in the beginning where the barracuda eats all the eggs and leaves just one and the father cuddles the egg and says "I will take care of you Nemo" and the scene where Nemo is playing dead and his father mistakenly thinks Nemo died. Father Fish had such a dejected look on his face.

I have probably cried at many other movies, but these are the ones that I can think of on the top of my head.

[india7]

I cry when Mufasa dies in The Lion King

That was absolutely my most embarrassing moment crying during a movie! When Simba's trying to wake him up, and then realizing he's dead, he crawls under Mufasa's paw so it's like he's hugging him one last time... I cried so hard the guy in front of me turned around with this "What the fuck?" look!

The sequence in Toy Story when Jessie the Cowgirl tells her story about being boxed up and given away by her owner and Sarah McLachlan is singing

This one too - I was absolutely racking with sobs, I'm humiliated enough to say! Long story short - we packed up and gave away all my toys when I was 13, and I was fine with it, because I thought I was too big for toys. Then when I was an adult, I felt guilty about giving up my favorite doll, because when my parents were going through a very loud and ugly divorce, that doll was my touchstone. And out of all my toys, I wished that I had that one doll back. Anyway, three weeks before I saw that movie, I found the doll on ebay, and got her for myself. So it was a combination of getting the doll back, seeing the same situation in the movie, and Sarah MacLachlan's gorgeous voice just sent me over the edge!

SIXTH SENSE The infamous scene in the car when the little boy tells his mother that he sees dead people and that his grandmother is very proud of her.

"You asked her a question? She said the answer is...'every day'." I lose it, just totally lose it, every time.

[Binky]

I cry when Mufasa dies in The Lion King

That was absolutely my most embarrassing moment crying during a movie! When Simba's trying to wake him up, and then realizing he's dead, he crawls under Mufasa's paw so it's like he's hugging him one last time... I cried so hard the guy in front of me turned around with this "What the fuck?" look!

I was on a transatlantic flight once, with The Lion King as one of the movie choices. I was watching Spartan. I was a 20ish girl, watching the violent action movie. My seatmate was a clean-cut, macho-looking dude, maximum of 5 years older than me. He was was watching The Lion King. When Mufasa died, he was crying. Doing it so, so subtly, but crying none the less. I'm sure he was humiliated.