Boo-Hoo: Film Scenes That Make You Well Up

There's probably been a thread already, but I'm not sure what to search for...Preferably not famous scenes; I can watch the end of Casablanca and feel close to nothing. Scenes that hit you on a more personal basis--you may not even be able to explain why you're so moved. Here are three of my own: 1) When the guy makes it over in Man on Wire; 2) When Ashley manages to spell "lycanthropy" successfully in Spellbound; and, the thing that inspired this thread, 3) Bill Murray's rendition of "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding" (even more than "More Than This") in Lost in Translation. I was watching LIT for the fourth or fifth time yesterday, and that scene really, really moved me.

The "Moses Supposes" number in Singin' In the Rain. Just because I know it's more perfect than most things I will ever see.

i watched a newly-restored version of the ballet sequence from the red shoes in a theater recently and got pretty choked up, it looked dazzling

I mean, most of them I could list are scenes featuring people/characters crying or dying.

The end of The Lives Of Others!

- Prof. Kelp reveals himself as Buddy Love at the end of the Jerry Lewis Nutty Professor
- George and Martha, sad, sad, sad
- Jack Lemmon's slow walk down the hospital corridor, Short Cuts

But, first and foremost, "Baby Mine" in Dumbo

OMG yes! I was thinking as I woke up this morning about Dumbo, and how I should go add it to the "if they don't like it you'll lose $50" thread. But then I forgot.

I teared up at the end of The Big Fish

letter from an unknown woman, when the camera pans down to the last page of the letter...

The end of The Lives Of Others!

actually, yeah ...

also the end of All that Heaven Allows when Jane Wyman is sitting there in her house alone looking at the new TV

I'm usually not a very weepy at movies kinda person ...

This is actually television, but:

when Chris Keller fell to his death at the end of OZ

It wasn't the TV that made me weepy in Heaven but the moment before, when the daughter finally (FINALLY!) realizes how much she unconsciously wanted to keep her mother sexless for the rest of her life.

I got a little teary when the lover got on the train in Far From Heaven but the Nicole Kidman character just didn't seem to be devastated in the same way that Jane Wyman's character was in the original.

The scene in Mulholland Drive in which Coco (Ann Miller) condescends to Diane/Betty at her son's wedding party, patting Diane's hand with one of her own gnarled paws before she picks at some almonds. In the background: an early eighties beat box.

were those tears of laughter?

I suppose this should not be open to documentaries?

Because the end of the Silverlake Life documentary turned an entire theater into a sobbing mess... I've never seen so many people moved to emotion. Everyone just remained in their seats sobbing long after the credits had rolled.

OMG just remembered - the bit at the end of Etre Et Avoir where his class leaves for the last time!

I cry pretty easily when it comes to movies but one movie that I had a really weird reaction to was "The Wrestler" I cried through like 3/4s of it and most of the rest of the evening that I saw it. I have no idea why it affected me so much but damn that movie struck something deep inside. I honestly don't think I could handle seeing it again.

I also can't make it through ET without sobbing. It generally starts when they put E and ET in the tents and continues right through to the end.

also, there has got to be a previous thread on this...

Because the end of the Silverlake Life documentary turned an entire theater into a sobbing mess

Docs do sort of have that unfair advantage, but there it is.

OK, I haven't seen that but this line from the IMDB entry is almost enough to make me tear up "The scene where Tom sings "You are My Sunshine" to Mark and tells him goodbye is the real thing." !!!

I'm still baffled by the fact that I was sad about Chris Keller falling off the balcony and dying for several days ... I watched that episode twice - once alone, and then with the bf - and cried both times, and he was totally mystified by my reaction. I think I said something like, "I'm sorry. It's just sad. I know he was a sociopath, but he truly loved poor little Tobias, and now he's dead." The bf was convinced he fell on purpose as a vindictive act ...

xpost I haven't seen it, but I'm absolutely going to track it down now.

at least one previous thread:

The One Movie That Makes You Cry, Every Time

i almost made a spectacle of myself in my school's a/v center watching the last ten minutes or so of yi yi

I cried hardcore at the end of Catch Me if You Can when he looks through the window and sees his family having Christmas together, and then he runs away. I cried to the point where I was mad at the disproportion of my tears.

a documentary called "Silverlake Life". I've only seen it twice. The first time the entire theater stayed in their seats whimpering for about 10 minutes afterward. The second time I had to see it again at home on video and it had the exact same effect.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:42 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Wall-E makes me tear up in one spot or another.

I'm a pretty sentimental gal.

I cried during Breaking the Waves but I totally forget at which point.

awww ... Wall-E - yeah.

never seen CMiYC but that just reminded me of the end of stella dallas, which definitely belongs here too for me

I think I also cried at Splendor in the Grass and when Sal Mineo dies in Rebel Without a Cause

oh god, a friend of mine took me to see Grave Of Fireflies in college... "it's a japanese cartoon!"

fuck... that was a long ride home.

One of the tearjerkiest is The Fox and the Hound. "Your my pal, Copper." "You're mine too, Todd." "And we'll always be friends, forever!" "Yeah, forever." The refrain of this just fucking kills me. I'm getting sensitive just thinking about it.

I think part of it is as a kid I wanted friends so bad, and never had any, and the promise of it is proved to be a lie at the end.

I'm a pretty sentimental gal.

Yeah, me too. I am apt to cry at almost any movie that is even remotely ~touching~. However the scene in "Terms of Endearment" where a dying Winger says goodbye to her kids is ridiculous.

"Iron Giant" when he says "I'm Superman" as he flies into the missile.

I have never seen "Iron Giant".

It's a great combination of touching sweetness and chilling cold war paranoia.

On that note, Pleasantville always makes me tear up & generally emote all over the place.

I would have cried at the end of Wall-E if something very fortunate didn't happen

I think I also got a little weepy when Clovis the cat hero sacrifices his life in this schlocky horror movie where the villains are vampires that are somehow susceptible to the presence of cats.

One of the tearjerkiest is The Fox and the Hound. "Your my pal, Copper." "You're mine too, Todd." "And we'll always be friends, forever!" "Yeah, forever." The refrain of this just fucking kills me. I'm getting sensitive just thinking about it.

Saw it when it came out in 1981 or 82 and had about the same reaction. I almost think that might be the last truly sad Disney movie ending.

I would have cried at the end of Wall-E if something very fortunate didn't happen

Popcorn box trick?

look, sometime it just digs into my leg and it hurts...

oh another one ... Stepford Wives - the original

Any movie with those fucking hobbits in it tugs at this heart here.

I think documentaries are perfectly valid for this thread. You've got to walk a real fine line in a documentary. If you're feeling manipulated, like I do with (you guessed it) Michael Moore--I'm thinking of the scene in Farenheit with the soldier's mother--I recoil. But the end of The Heart of the Game, where Darnellia finally gets her championship, really gets to me. Oldest cliche imaginable in sports films, I know, documentary or otherwise. But for me, it's powerful.

Last scene of "Plague Dogs."

Last scene of "Pan's Labyrinth," after she dies.

So glad someone else said Iron Giant. I could not believe that I was crying.

I think the only movie that didn't make me sad when a cat died was Rubin and Ed

from the other thread:

I cried in Monsters Inc, when Sully took Boo back home.
― C J (C J), Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:34 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Me too.

I think I've cried at every Pixar movie but Cars.

I cried at various points during The Conversation - though not every time I've seen it.

A lot of mentions for Cinema Paradiso on the other thread and I'd have to agree with that. I also cried at the end of Lost in Translation with BM runs after her but I hate goodbyes so pretty much any movie that has a sad or drawn out goodbye sequence is sure to make me lose it.

intro to Up was possibly the only time I've ever cried at a movie

I think my tears are triggered by sacrifices resulting in loneliness and tragic mistakes ... well besides cats dying.

Get ready to bawl your eyes out at Garfield!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP7IYegv0BQ

Yeah Wall-E sideswiped me a little in places, for sure.

For some reason, in line with Erica's baffled "why I cry at this?" above, I had a bizarre reaction to Gattaca of all things. I forget what triggered it now (possibly the scene where he races his brother in the surf) but it made me bawl like a spaz, and even at the time I didnt know why. I might have been upset about something else, I suppose.

And yeah Cinema Paradiso is so so sad.

Now I think about it a little more, I think its music that can trigger me even when a scene isnt that sad/moving. There's a piece of music that plays here and there in "Meet Joe Black" for example that kills me.

I think the weirdest thing I cried at was Bridget Jones' Diary ... but I think I was having totally uncharacteristically serious PMS

lol i had that garfield special on tape and always fast-forwarded through that segment

"Iron Giant" when he says "I'm Superman" as he flies into the missile.

mm hmmm. watching it with my 4 year old.

God, add the end of that Garfield special to the list of things that cause irrational terror for having seen it as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSYFb4SQ_Y

"Iron Giant" when he says "I'm Superman" as he flies into the missile.

This.

the little dog running back in Umberto D. I can't even tell someone about that scene without choking up!

"Iron Giant" when he says "I'm Superman" as he flies into the missile.

Not exactly the right thread, but that made me think of this:

http://twi-ny.com/masters2.jpg

Which also makes me cry.

Ebert:

There are lines in "Companion" (2006) that may indeed have been written by Keillor, but take on a special meaning now that Altman is gone. One of them is, "Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy." I can hear Altman saying that. And listen to this exchange. The youngest member of the cast (Lindsay Lohan) wants Keillor to mention on the air that Chuck (L.Q. Jones), the oldest, has just been found dead in his dressing room. Keillor declines.

Lola: What if you die some day?

Garrison: I will die.

Lola: Don't you want people to remember you?

Keillor: I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Yolanda (Meryl Streep), Lola's mom, asks him: "How about just a moment of silence?" He replies: "Silence on the radio. I don't know how that works." People who have worked for years with Keillor say he often seems to exist in his own world as the show is happening. It is live, and seems to unfold spontaneously, but it is impossible to imagine anything ruffling Keillor's serenity. There may be a crisis backstage, but there can never be dead air on the radio.

I'm a total wet blanket for even obviously hackneyed BIG POWERFUL EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATIVE SCENES at the end of films. That is, if I can gather my attention span to watch one of them all the way through without distraction.

I think you misused "wet blanket," but I'm only one man.

Fig. a dull or depressing person who spoils other people's enjoyment. Pillbox is fun at parties, but his brother's a wet blanket. I was with Pillbox and he was being a real wet blanket.

yes, um I thought that meant a different thing. Carry on, then.

he was talking about literally wetting his blanket

up when he reads the scrapbook in the middle, dancer in the dark

The final of nine "takes" in Rodrigo Garcia's 2005 film, Nine Lives. It features Glenn Close as a mother who, along with her young daughter, is visiting a grave at a cemetary. The closing shot is an out-of-left field revelation that's worthy of an M. Night Shyamalan film, but it was so sad -- and had such an impact on me -- that I can never watch it again. A subtle and moving scene in an exceptional film.

i cry at almost anything. like every movie i see. i've cried watching university challenge.

LOL. I mean as I said last night, I cry really easily at shows/films/commercials etc. but University Challenge?!

Wall-E and the Iron Giant. I think I only cry when bad things happen to robots.

Edward Scissorhands, when Vincent Price dies just before he can give Edward his real hands.

YES!

when Ricky gets shot in Boyz N The Hood

also, when Charlie gives back the everlasting gobstopper...

Whenever the psychic sister starts talking about Christine to Julie Christie in Don't Look Now.

When Roy Scheider says goodbye to everyone in the audience at the end of All That Jazz.

E.T.

... but I blub at almost anything

"The scene where Tom sings "You are My Sunshine" to Mark and tells him goodbye is the real thing." !!!

I still always feel a little sad whenever I hear that song.

"That'll do, pig. That'll do"

i welled up at the end of frozen river

aw shit yeah that'll do pig.

When the Iron Giant dies.

you guys have spoiled that movie for me now, btw.

em i get a little cloudy when forrest gump is told his kid is smart.

haha yeah I teared up too when the camera leaves Forrest sitting on bench/stump, waiting for his son to come back from school

I feel a little emotional at the end of Bottle Rocket

I'm such a sucker for weepy scenes. The vast majority mentioned here would probably work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Rix5aG-EA&feature=related

cried in the theater watching Up. Will certainly cry again every time I watch it at home on dvd.

The scene that's probably made me well up the most is the end of the "14eme Arrondissement" clip on "Paris Je T'aime", I really wasn't expecting it. Had a similar feeling at the end "About Schmidt"... Alexander Payne is really good at this.

I also cried like a baby at the and of "La Vita e Bella", but later I was a bit upset about it. I felt slightly manipulated.

Another one I just remembered is the part where they name the place in NY after Joey Ramone in "End of the century".

The moment in Parenthood that always gets me is when Dianne Wiest is asked by her emotionally distant son to give him the number of his father, her equally distant ex-husband. She's hurt that he doesn't want to live with her and then crushed when her ex, on the phone, rejects their son.

I bawled at the end of Ma Vie En Rose like I'd never bawled at a movie before or since. Which is weird, because I don't really remember it being that sad overall. I just felt so badly that the kid couldn't be himself.

Oh. And To Be And To Have. Pretty much the whole thing. It's just so pure and touching and great. It breaks my heart.

Oh I def cried at the end of Ma Vie en Rose.

OMG just remembered - the bit at the end of Etre Et Avoir where his class leaves for the last time!

Etre Et Avoir = To Be And To Have, so agreeing with LJ here.

And I love that movie sooooooooooo much, BTW.

Last scene of "Plague Dogs."

Abbott OTM x 1000. And I cried even harder reading the end of the novel. So sad.

Also, I cried during the interview segments with present-day Scott in Scott Walker: 30 Century Man where he's talking about his work. Not sure why.

"intro to Up was possibly the only time I've ever cried at a movie"

Totally got misty during this.

"That'll do, pig. That'll do"

Also this.

Two emotionally manipulative final scenes that make me weep:
1. Longtime Companion
2. Philadelphia, thanks largely to the Neil Young song that underscores it

i still can't believe i almost cried when Superman visits his sleeping son in Superman Returns

surprised no-one mentioned Eternal Sunshine yet

i'm a big crybaby

if you didn't cry when juliet fell down the well in lost then you have no heart

i've cried a bunch during lost - not always because it was sad either! ('the constant', i'm lookin at YOU)

the most tearworthy scene in mullholland dr is the lipsyncing woman

Honestly, I wasn't affected one way or another by any of the Losties' fates at the end of last season, knowing that their fates were going to be rebooted.

After being pretty mystified by Mulholland Drive the first two times I saw it, the third viewing really hit home. It's an incredibly sad movie, at its core.

drawing a blank, I guess I'm heartless

did you just post that to see if someone would c&p that to the "posts very much in character" thread?

haha no I was genuinely trying to remember specific scenes that have made me cry (like, more than once) and I honestly can't think of any. I can remember movies that I cried at when I first saw them (the Piano, Dead Man, Eternal Sunshine) but when I think about it that had more to do with where I was personally at the time rather than the films themselves. I dunno, I suspect that would be true for most cases, but maybe not.... maybe I am just not that emotionally invested in most films.

One of the women I saw Little Nicky with cried at that, so obviously there's a wide variation among people lolz

okay wait I remembered one! A really obvious one! It's A Wonderful Life - I always tear up a little when George gets to speechifyin

also when he learns that war has broken out and he's going to be stuck in Bedford Falls and there's a slow, silent pan around his totally destroyed face...

and I pretty much hate Christmas!

Arty ones :
The last few minutes of The Seventh Seal
The last shot of Ikiru
Father and son falling out in The Bicycle Thieves, also the last shot where the boy holds his fathers hand

Less arty ones:
Lips of Anvil hugs his sister in Anvil: The Story Of Anvil
Last shot of Only Yesterday

ET still makes me cry, too, and I'm 40 years old. Same with some moment or another in any of the Pixar films. The "When She Loved Me" segment in Toy Story 2 makes me bawl like a baby.

you guys are all a bunch of crybabies, btw

was seriously hoping Morbz was gonna have a good answer for this thread, but I guess that's too much to hope for

tbf afterwards I go out and beat someone up just to feel more manly

*high five*

E.T.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, December 26, 2008 12:20 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark

I did just about lose it at the beginning of Up, even though I already knew what was coming.

I don't think that any movie has left me as completely wrecked as the episode of Buffy where her mother dies. Twice it's done this to me. Twice.

I agree with many of these, but have to also add The Neverending Story. Where the horse sinks in the mud. I am about to cry thinking about it.

I am a giant wuss.

Actually, anything involving animals in danger/pain. I AM LEGEND is a recent horrific example.

x-post - The scene where Artax sinks is gut wrenching!!

ARTEX NOOOOOO!!!!!1

xpost ha

Oh man I don't even know how many times I must have watched movie when I was a kid.

I've still never seen the end of it, actually. 6-year-old me had to be taken from the movie theatre in hysterics because of that horse, and every time I've tried to watch it since then I still give up and turn it off at that scene.

Two emotionally manipulative final scenes that make me weep:

The emotionally manipulative scene that really pushed my buttons was in Crash (if you've seen the movie, I think you'll know which scene I'm talking about). I did well up. But almost immediately after I felt like the filmmakers were really jerking my chain in a crass, blunt way.

Anyway, that scene didn't work for me for that reason. I guess some people would find the scene I cited upthread -- from Nine Lives -- just as intentionally manipulative, but it was far more subtle, and happened far too fast, for it to leave a negative impression with me.

Too many italics.

x-posts - Awwwwwwwwwwwww. You can do it. I had to be removed from the theater during Ghostbusters because I was too scared but finally made it through a couple years ago and am glad I did. There are some tense moments in NES but if you get past that scene I'm sure you'll be OK. ;-)

I'm sure I will too. I'm informed that ****SPOILERS**** the horse apparently comes back at the end. Maybe next time it's on telly I'll make a point of sticking with it until the end.

Lili-When Paul talks Lili out of committing suicide. I actually went back to the scene after watching the movie which only made it hit me that much harder. As Dennis Duffy would say, "I cried like a big dumb homo."

The Legend of Paul & Paula-Saw it in rep. After it was over, I walked out of the theatre @ the MFAH, made it to the crosswalk and immediately began bawling. I couldn't even talk for about 30 minutes.

My Life To Live-When Nana gets interrogated by the police. Her response to the woman who turned her in does the deed.

Some others, have to think.

mouchette rolling into the river

xxpost franny I cried too when the dog dies in I Am Legend, could not help it.

The scene in Quiz Show where Paul Scofield (as Mark van Doren) and Ralph Fiennes (as his son Charles) share some late-night cake and Scofield, not knowing that Fiennes has cheated, tells him how great it is to have a son and they just sit there in silence eating.

The last shot of Ikiru

Any number of scenes on that make me well up - Watanabe singing in the cafe as he tries to exorcise the sadness, or when Watanabe slips and falls and is helped by the group of mothers and handed a coffee as he surveys the construction of the playground, or you could take Watanabe's funeral (recollections from work colleagues and mothers of what he went through to get the thing built), and obviously Watanabe sitting on the park. The last shot and more...

Its a weepathon.

Can't recall the specific scene(s), but several time in The Sweet Hereafter.

times

'and obviously Watanabe sitting on the park'

I mean it when he sits in the swing the day the playground is completed, really feeling at peace with himself...

Part of me really hates that film while thinking it as very great, just for the kind of reaction it provoked in me - I still don't know whether it was crass or not, or whether it was even intended manipulation, so scarily effective that it was.

most teary moment on Lost maybe the end of 'Walkabout' when Locke is looking at his old wheelchair from afar and smiling

I cannot watch the scene where Tomáš puts Karenin the dog to sleep, in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, without weeping. Philip Kaufman manages to pull this off without giving me the filthily encrusted with sentimentality feeling I'd get from other directors like Spielberg.

That scene from In the Bedroom when the Dad's poker buddy recites the Longfellow poem My Lost Youth. Shit slayed me.

Mouchette - definitely.

The gas station reunion scene in Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
When the screen goes black at the end of Cries and Whispers.
The aformentioned I AM LEGEND scene.
That Lars Von Trier punishment w/Bjork (I think it was because of the Sound of Music usage).
The Sound of Music.
Half the time anything with THOSE kinds of strings.
This one episode of the Xmen cartoon series when Morph came back and he was evil/all conflicted.

the only good scenes in I Am Legend all involved that dear dog

oh yeah and almost the entirety of When the Levees Broke but that's probably PTSD-related.

All sorts of movies make me weepy, but I find I can barely watch a good/classic movie with my daughter without getting extra weepy. Something about the joy of this little kid watching something I love for the first time that I know she may also very well end up loving for the rest of her life ... it's a bit like buying her a puppy again and again. "E.T.," "Singing in the Rain" ...

^nice

I welled up watching up School of Rock actually: when the character of Tomika (played by Maryam Hassan), a girl I'm supposing about ten years old, does a beautiful rendition of Chain of Fools.

Musical performances have been able to do that to me, from time to time.

I cried at an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" this afternoon. No, I don't know why I was watching that in the first place but that's not the point. There was an old lady who didn't want to go into a nursing home and she bonded with a young doc over her fears of aging and it was damn touching.

Oh, Vanya on 42nd Street!

in a roundabout way this thread makes me feel guilty for laughing at the paternity test episodes of maury

Some animated stuff that makes me cry:

the scene in Toy Story 2 where the girl leaves Jessie in a box on the side of the road
The montage scene from UP

mufasa, oh man mufasa

I cry a fair bit at films (and music) so I've been scratching my head trying to think of a specific example but it's just come to me. The closing scenes of Scrooged absolutely destroy me every, every time.

genuinely better pick than lost in translation imo

Kiki's Delivery Service - a lot of it I Think.

Wizrd of Oz, Dorothy trapped in the Castle.. "Oh, Auntie Em, don't go away! I'm frightened! Come back! Come back! " ;_;

>the scene in Toy Story 2 where the girl leaves Jessie in a box on the side of the road

oh god, that whole montage with the song is *devastating*...

on x-post Studio Ghibli note, the first time I saw Grave of The Fireflies it totally did for me as well. More commercial animated fare does it too: there were plenty of bits in Bolt (esp. the "your my good boy" stuff) that had me misty eyed beyond reason.

I also managed to weep almost without constraint through Schindler's List once.

argh "YOU'RE my good boy"...

The end of You Can Count On Me, apparently.

I remember having a rough time getting through Rachel Getting Married, as well.

Seconded: Kiki's Delivery Service, Big Fish, Monsters Inc, Dancer in the Dark, Bridget Jones - actually, anything mentioned in this thread that I've seen, I've cried at I think. Except Artax sinking to his doom - that never did anything to me.

Have been much weepier with movies as I get older, dunno if it's some sort of perspective that makes me relate to the situations of the characters more, or just less jaded cynicism or what. In the last year I've cried on airplanes to Juno as well as some uplifting story about the first black quarterback at Harvard, or something like that. (This was probably a really successful and well-known movie but I tend to miss the boat on stuff.)

Got pretty teary-eyed throughout The Triplets of Belleville, basically every scene with the tirelessly heroic and giving grandmother/aunt/foster mother lady got me right here. I lost my mother last year so that's where that's coming from, see also recent tearfest rereading "To Kill A Mockingbird." (No mother figure in that, but it was her favorite book and she named me, sort of, after Atticus...and the book is already a tearjerker anyway.)

Oh, and Sita Sings The Blues.

Did anyone cry at Robocop? There's one scene I'm thinking of that's pretty tearworthy.

when he goes into his former house?

Got pretty teary-eyed throughout The Triplets of Belleville

Me, too.

he closing scenes of Scrooged absolutely destroy me every, every time.

Me, too! Also, the end of It's a Wonderful Life, when Martini says "I bust-a the jukebox!"

(Maybe not so much a tearworthy scene, so much as a gooseflesh-raiser)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

One of the tearjerkiest is The Fox and the Hound. "Your my pal, Copper." "You're mine too, Todd." "And we'll always be friends, forever!" "Yeah, forever." The refrain of this just fucking kills me. I'm getting sensitive just thinking about it.

This was my first movie in the theater. I was 3 years old, and reports are that this bit sent me over the edge. It's been a while, but it probably still could.

More commercial animated fare does it too: there were plenty of bits in Bolt (esp. the "your my good boy" stuff) that had me misty eyed beyond reason.

Oh my god, when he finally finds Penny inside the burning building and then he lays down next to her!

this whole damn thread is making me all misty-eyed! Cut it out!

I forgot about the Fox and the Hound, I'm becoming verklempt at my desk.

I watch mostly children's movies these days and so many of them are designed to elicit this reaction though. Another one that brought me pretty close was the ending scene of the Spiderwick Chronicles, where the crazy old aunt gets to transform into a little girl again and fly off to fairyland with her dad, who had been trapped there for like 80 years.

"when he goes into his former house?"
yeah!

"There's something I really have to tell you..." like she's all mad.
Then you see just the bottom half of his face and even though he's a badass lethal cyborg, he looks like he could crumple any second just from the bottom half of his face.
"...I love you"
And bzzzzt robot recall over, she's gone.

What does Terminator 2 have?
"I KNOW NOW VHY YOU CRY, BUT IT IS SOMTHING I CAN NEVA DO."

I bet he tells Maria that.

when Steve Martin, on a hunch, goes back to the train station and finds out why John Candy has not been similarly fixated on getting back home, in Planes, Trains and Automobiles

When Sen figures out her friend was the river in Spirited Away.

the part in spirited away that gets me is when she's shouting at her parents - now pigs - not to forget who they are.

Yes to both those parts.

Wizard of Oz - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" brings niagara falls of tears every time
Pretty much all of the Curious George movie...George, and the gorgeous animation, and that stupid Jack Johnson song...curse my leaky eyes
Nightmare Before Christmas - when Jack and Sally sing on the big curly mountain top at the end.
Snow White - "Some Day My Prince Will Come" = uninhibited bawling
Wall-E - when he watches 'Hello Dolly'...and 10,000 other moments in that damn movie

"Nobody puts Baby in the corner"

aww, Somewhere Over The Rainbow is like the cutest thing to cry bucketloads over

Maybe an embarrassing one this...it's the sequence in A.I. where the mother abandons Haley Joel Osment's robot boy character out in the woods. I was 11 at the time and it registered with me. Does anyone else agree what a great film it is? Delighted to see it on the Stylus 00s films roundup.

Not a film, but what about when Bubbles wakes up to discover Sherrod dead.

ohh, i know. the scene at the end of A Patch of Blue where she has to leave sidney poitier. fuck.

xp - yeah, I got weepy over Bubbles and Sherrod, and when Randy gets sent to the group home.

pretty much any scene in Philadelphia.

Yes that is harrowing. So much potential utterly crushed. Wire season 4 is bleak huh?

last movie I cried at was free willy

I watched Cinema Paradiso with a girl as our first date. Through out the movie there were scenes I teared up, but I was able to hold them back. Then at the end when he watches the kissing, explicit scenes, I let it go. The girl was so moved she ended up being my girlfriend for 5 years.

xxp - yeah, that's the failure at fatherhood season. Pretty much all attempts at it fail, well, except one. I just felt sad for all the characters involved.

omg jacob that's the cutest story ever

^^Wow to Jacob Sanders.

Also I can understand Free Willy if you're not being ironic. Will You Be There is a powerful song!

I watched "Cemetery Man" with a guy on a first date, and I cried, partly because of the sad parts, and partly because I wished I was seeing it with my ex, who would have felt the same way about it.

Now that makes me tear up.

my date just was incapable of the sheer joy at seeing zombie boy scouts and zombie nuns

Zombieland looks promising....

not being ironic about free willy but also kind of don't want check imdb to see when it came out in case I was like 20 at the time or something

ok its cool I was 8

Cemetery Man was almost the perfect movie for me at the time - it combined inappropriate zombies and Sartreian existential angst.

Who takes an 11-year-old to see A.I.?!?!

Also: Stand By Me, River's monologue when he cries has made me cry like a baby from the first time I ever watched.

Opening scene of Flashdance, with her walking along the railroad tracks. I DON'T KNOW WHY IT MAKES ME CRY. Nostalgia for legwarmers or something. Shut up. you asked...

re: AI, Wasn't it rated G? I can't remember them cursing, and the jude law robowhore scenes were very chaste. Were ratings board used in 60s? because for some reason 2001 is also rated G.

Is cemetery man delamorte delamore? What were the sad parts? I remember Rupert Murdoch being kind of a jerk to his grunty Igor pal.

cemetery man was indeed delamorte delamore. It was sad that he kept fucking up getting the girl, and then at the end when he realizes that there is nothing outside of town.

i've never cried during a movie cuz... u know... not a broad... but one time i was watching DEEP IMPACT on tv during a ~*~*vulnerable*~*~ thyme in my lyfe and the scene where tea leoni and her dad die made me choke up a lil

A.I. was PG-13, but there's absolutely no reason an 11-year-old can't see a PG-13 movie.

I watched it on DVD fwiw.

Also in the UK where it was a PG.

The "When She Loved Me" segment in Toy Story 2

yah, its sad!

E.T. yes.

Also ending of 'Big'. Last time I watched that my daughter turned to me and her look said 'you're going to cry now', and yeah I was wellin' up.

Hey, I'm 42 I'm allowed to get more sentimental.

Cried recently at the end of 'Officer and a gentleman' even though I was still mad as hell that the blonde woman was happily working in the factory.

Biggest blub I've ever done? 'Brief encounter' when husband puts down crossword to say "you've been a long way away, thank you for coming back to me"

I should add that the big brief encounter blub was when i was approx 15. My mum was ironing in the back room and I had to walk very quickly past her averting my head so I could get out into the garden and let it all out. But rather than go to the garden I chose the little side path where the dustbins were. F*cking rubbish behaviour.

Ending of Bicycle Thieves made me cry and I've only cried 2 or 3 times this decade.

Many, many scenes from Griffith's "Way Down East" - Anna's cousins are mean and horrible to her, while she uncomprehendingly thinks they are her friends, Anna's baby dies, Anna is cast out into the snow by Squire Bartlett, Anna, having been rescued from the ice floe, wakes up beside Squire Bartlett's son, who loves here even though she's had a child out of wedlock, off the top of my head.

The final scene from Chaplin's "City Lights", where the formerly blind flower girl only recognises the tramp when she holds his hand.

"Sunrise", where the wife is rescued from the lake.

I'm a sucker for ott melodrama, gets me every time.

drawing a blank, I guess I'm heartless

― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier)

Ha ha ha Shakey. NO WAY.

A.I. was PG-13, but there's absolutely no reason an 11-year-old can't see a PG-13 movie.

I dunno, I just imagine parents saying "I bet our 11-year-old would love this movie about parents who replace their 11-year-old with a robot copy that looks a lot like a real boy, they then cheerily condemn to tragic existence, never returning its preprogrammed affections!"

(Also I just sort of hated the movie so I wouldn't take anybody to see it, of any age, but YMMV.)

I know! My preschool took me to see "Little Shop of Horrors" even though they knew I was an orphaned botanist who had been adopted by a sadistic singing dentist.

hah I also cried at A.I., in the theater...

this reminds me of a very silly one - when I was 10 or so I watched Dumb and Dumber, and got really upset at the scene where they try to pass off a dead parrot to the blind girl - it outraged my 10 year old sense of moral justice!

"A.I." is such a sad, heartbreaking movie. I mean, the very idea of a robot boy designed to be "real," then left to fend for himself in an uncaring world in essence as an experiment intended to prove the success of his programming ... and then outlasting the entire human race so that he's the closest thing left to human emotion on earth, the perfect simulation of a perfect boy made real. And then getting his reward - reuniting with his mother for those scant few minutes - which is all he wanted to begin with, for all those years spent alone, under water, essentially frozen by grief and sadness? It makes me weepy just typing this. There are some crass moments in the film, but the emotional payoff is undeniable.

Another guaranteed weeper: "Waking the Dead," with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, and a great score by tomandandy. My wife and I were left blubbering.

I was really un-moved by the film I guess. If it was about a toaster that kept making toast after three thousand years - just like it'd been programmed to! - would it still have the same payoff? I never saw the kid as a character I guess, just a machine on autopilot. The Brave Little Toaster, I'll admit, somehow gets away with this.

Yeah, but what if the toaster absolutely loved making toast, and wanted nothing else but to make toast, and yet no one wanted his toast? Devastating.

Anyway, kid wasn't on autopilot. He was tragically compelled by an undying love he couldn't turn off.

i have to admit AI hit me pretty hard too, as flawed as that movie inevitably was, at its core i was drawn into it emotionally

He's a robot I tells ya! No more tragic than the fact that my Internet Explorer window is compelled at a fundamental level to close when I hit the little X at the top right of the screen.

A few places in Three Colors: Blue/White/Red.

The war flashback in Porco Rosso, with the vapor trail made up of all the dead pilots.

A little more love for Porco Rosso, esp this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-gZp1gnfQ

The lighting of the beacons in LoTR The Return of The King also leaves me with a lump in my throat like a goose egg every bloody time I see it. I tested this by watching a dubbed spanish version on youtube ten minutes ago and almost had to turn it off, so emo was the effect.

Strangely, the end of 'Blackadder Goes Forth' always makes me tear up.

OTM

A couple I didn't see mentioned above:

'Wings of Desire' - Not the angel/trapeze artist love story, actually, but the b/w cinematography (e.g. a scene of a tree surrounded by mist; a flock of birds in flight), and the old gentleman from the library's internal monologue.

'Bridge to Terabithia' - Never read the book, so the turning point of the film blindsided & broke me up. (*SPOILER*: And I feel the depiction of grief was well-done & very thoughtful).

very much otm with Bridge To Terabithia.

Just thinking about Good-bye, Lenin! made me misty-eyed just now. I want to see it again but I'm too wimpy to put myself through the heartbreak.

the farewell scene between Andrei and Kirill in Andrei Rublev kills me.

oh and Brief Encounter too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEvP68qMLM&feature=related

^^ YES

Also, pretty much every scene in Ordet, the end of Tokyo Story, Late Spring and Diary of a Country Priest.

That new bloody Futurama episode where

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SPOILER IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT

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We find out Hermes made Bender and saved him from being squished because he was defective

That made me cry quite unexpectedly!