Which Scenes in Movies Make you Cry

[FARAFIELD]

I saw some comments about the "finding neverland" finale, and it made me talk about it at work. Funny the wide ranging answers i got. For me the four that do it for me are the Scene halfway through "AWAKENINGS" when DeNiro's Mother comes into the room, The End of "Field of Dreams" when Costner asks his Dad If he wants to have a catch. The Rainbow at the End of ET. And when Liam Neeson breaks down in "schindlers list" because he forget to give up the Gold Nazi Pin for one more person. what are yours?

[JimmyJazz]

1. Every time: The scene in Glory where Denzel Washington's

character is beaten for desertion because he went to get shoes/boots for the men. I don't even have to watch the scene, I just need to think about it.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Oh yeah

You know whats also a sad scene in the same movie is when you see all the guys from the regiment being piled up barefoot and you realize then that Fort Wagner was a huge defeat not a victory. As far what tears me up, I cried when Edgecomb has to excute Coffey in the Green Mile even though he knows he is innocent, the other guards and in fact Barry Pepper's character is even crying and he has to hide a tear. What Paul says to John before he takes him to the mile is sad too, "John how do I do this, how am I to face god and let him know that I killed one of his gifts", "Boss tell him you did it because you had to", such a moving movie, its what turned me against the death penalty 100%.

[pnorman]

20. Thanks, fellow Kucinich supporter.

I hadn't seen the picture so, on the basis of your posting, I checked out the first bunch of reviews at Amazon.com. I'll almost certainly order it.

pnorman

[JohnKleeb]

56. No problem

Though I did give a big part of the film away, its really what made me against captial punishment.

[unhappycamper]

2. .

ROFLMAO - campfire scene, Blazing Saddles
romantic happy - the end of Cousins or Return to Me

[sundog]

4. most of moulin rouge

I confess, I'm a sucker for it :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I love you more then I did before!

My favorite movie.... when he breaks down sobbing holding Satine.. oh gawd. :cry:

[sundog]

25. it usually starts

with "and you can tell everybody that this is your song" and its all downhill from there

actually I haven't watched in like 2 months, so I'm sure I'd be all squishy & whatnot if I watched it :7

[RevolutionaryActs]

26. Come over, we can watch it and blubber like babies.

:P

[KG]

5. I love Brian Piccolo!

"I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too."

he classic

[fluffernutter]

10. i posted that too

and the scene at the end with the song and Piccolo running :cry:

[fluffernutter]

7. when Barbara Streisand touches RR's hair

at the end of The Way We Were

when Gayle Sayers chokes up when talking about Brian Piccolo in Brian's Song

[tishaLA]

68. When Streisand does that

I just lose it. It's such a wonderful scene.

[GalleryGod]

93. Thanks ! My Two Fav's!

When Redford asks, "Is he a good father"?:cry:

[pres2032]

8. Armageddon

when Bruce Willis talks to his daughter, the president's speech, and the end.

friday night lights - the final game

The Passion - the entire movie, but the tears are flowing full force when He is nailed to the cross


edit: hehe, that was my 5,000th post!

[JohnKleeb]

9. Also

Saving Private Ryan, the end scene on the bridge, Hanks' character almost makes it but comes short, its really tearjerker material. I got too many scenes in my head that make me want to cry that said. I am easily moved what more can I say.

[pres2032]

11. that one too, that's a powerful scene

[JohnKleeb]

12. Ain't it?

The thing that moved me profoundly when I first saw that movie was looking Cpt Miller's grave, he died on like June 13th or something, not even D-Day+10, I really had thought at age 12 that the guys had been in Normandy at least a month. I tend to get the soundtracks of movies that move me, Schindler's List, Enemy at the Gates, Saving Private Ryan, Green Mile, and so many more.

[pres2032]

13. yeah

i thought they were in there much longer too.


Green mile is another one, Coffey's speech towards the end is chilling and i'm crying along with the guards.

[JohnKleeb]

15. Yeah what I talk about above

Edgecomb doesnt know how he will face god for killing one of his miracles. BTW someone else I discussed the movie with pointed out that Coffey's intials were JC ala Jesus Christ, I found that interesting. That movie is so moving.

[pres2032]

19. oh yeah

that is an interesting aspect of the movie and i wouldn't be surprised if Stephen King did intend for him to be Jesus Christ.

[JohnKleeb]

24. Its something I never thought about really

Such a great cast in that movie really.

[phusion]

14. Dances w/ Wolves

When Costner is caught by the troops and they start shooting at Two Socks.

Silly, I know.
:cry:

[ComerPerro]

69. No, I agree

[Sparkly]

16. "Since You Went Away"

It's a WWII era film with Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple. There's a scene that made me bawl the first time I saw it, and now whenever I watch it, I bawl through the whole movie because I know that sad part's coming. :cry:

[nuxvomica]

28. LOL Some movies have that same effect on me

Like watching It's A Wonderful Life and knowing how it's going to end infuses every scene with poignancy.

[Sparkly]

34. Yes!!

And with "Since You Went Away," I half-hope that this time it'll turn out better. ("No, Jennifer! Don't fall in love with him! There are plenty of fish in the sea, date around a little, you're still young!")

[ReadTomPaine]

17. Dumbo

I posted this on a thread in December just before my trip.. reposted below-

C'mon folks - Dumbo!

I dare you to sit thru "Baby of Mine" and not tear up. Disney's best film.

For those who haven't seen it - Dumbo's mother has been condemned as a "mad elephant" and locked in a cage for defending him from taunting, abusive crowds. With her son alone, afraid and facing the world ahead without her, she extends her trunk thru the bars to cradle and sing him to sleep one last time. The scene is so gut wrenching, many feel it too strong for its intended child audience.

Lyrics-

Baby Mine, don't you cry
Baby mine, dry your eyes
Rest your head close to my heart, never to part
Baby of Mine
If they knew sweet, little you
They'd end up loving you, too
All those same people who scold you
What they'd give, just for the right to hold you
From your head down to your toes
You're not much, goodness knows
But you're so precious to me
Sweet as can be, Baby of mine

Here's the best image I could find on the net, from a porcelain collectable:

Here's the link to the thread - it was huge!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2141738

RTP

[alphafemale]

67. That's it exactly. Mamas' see those "gifts" no one else sees as gifts yet

It makes me cry just thinking about it.

Because I think of kids with "gifts" that are derided and the tough time they will have of it.

[Sparkly]

18. Oh and another one -- I forgot the title

I *think* it had Susan Sarandon in it as the Mom. Mom knows she's dying and she has only a short time left with her kids, and makes them each a special quilt. I think she helps break in the new wife/mom or something. It's sooooooo SAD!!! :cry: :cry: :cry:

Edit: and I think Julia Roberts is the new stepmom... Anybody remember this?

[Nicole]

22. Stepmom is the name of the movie

I cried during that movie too.

[Sparkly]

31. That's the one!!

wahhhhhh!!!

[AlCzervik]

21. Bette Davis's final scene in Dark victory, Sally Fields flipping out in

the cemetery in Steel Magnolia's, Ricky Schroeders crying over Jon Voight's body in The Champ and always Scarlett O'hara's final scene in Gone with the wind. I'm sure there are others but thats my short list.

[HeeBGBz]

46. That scene in Steel Magnolias

That is impossible to watch and not cry.

[AlCzervik]

47. I think i watch that movie everytime it's on and always cry

it's like if i watch enough times maybe she won't die. I love shirley Mclain and Olympia Dukakis in that, they were hilarious.

[RaleighNCDem]

80. I actually sob because of that scene in Steel Magnolias.

Other movies make me tear up, but that one I need a box of tissues for.

:cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

89. "Here! Hit Ouixer!" I've never cried so hard, then laughed so hard, in a

theater in all my life. That was a fantastic scene.

[tammywammy]

23. Life is Beautiful

The end, where he's telling his son to hide....and then at the end where he gets to ride on the tank and he sees him mom.

[AuntieM1957]

27. Tender Mercies

The scene where Duvall says "I don't trust happiness, never have, never will" also the scene in the same movie where he sings back to the camera the song he just told his daughter he couldn't remember.

Damn near every scene Horton Foote every wrote makes me cry.

[maddiejoan]

29. Boromir's death

By the third arrow, I'm an emotional train wreck

[nuxvomica]

30. 8 Men Out: "Is it him?"

Also, the surprise at the end of Dragonfly. And many others I can't remember at the moment.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. An odd one, but

at the end of Black Beauty (the ca. 1994 British version), I and all the middle-aged people I saw the film with were in tears over the last scene, in which Black Beauty is recognized by the former stableboy (now grown-up) at Squire Gordon's.

[hippiechick]

33. Toward the end of Amelie

... when the guy she's in love with finally figures out who she is, and she hides from him ... then the little old man she's been leaving goodies for has the VHS tape left in her apartment, which tells her that she's young, and she'll surivive but that if she doesn't take a risk and GO GET THAT MAN (the hero)NOW, she'll end up even more introverted and lonley than she is now ...


:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Sugar Smack]

95. OH, GOD!!!!! That scene in Amelie

where she leaves the box of memorabilia belonging to that old man, and he starts crying!!! When I saw that I went into a very PHYSICAL fit of crying- the open-mouth howling and throwing myself all over my apartment.

There's a scenre In the Royal Tennenbaums where one of the sons is shaving off his famous beard and whispering that he's going to kill himself into the mirror. I must have lost five pounds crying over that.

One more- there's this TV movie "Liz" about Elizabeth Taylor's life. When the only man she ever truly loved gets killed in a plane crash, I have to howl over that one.

Thanks for letting me cry on your shoulder, hippiechick!



:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[alpaca]

35. Shindler's List

When the little girl with the red coat is running through the Ghetto as people are getting taken away and killed.

[nuxvomica]

36. "Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley"

[elehhhhna]

51. Book or film, when she says "Hey, Boo..." I cry my eyes out.

The theme music also kills me.

[nuxvomica]

54. And the narration, too

"I was to think of these days many times. Of Jem, and Dill, and Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson, and Atticus. He would be in Jem's room all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."

I remember loving the book when I read it as a kid and being so grateful that the movie didn't disappoint.

[elehhhhna]

55. Best book to movie adaptation ever. Re-read the book. You'll love it

again! Promise.

[HEyHEY]

37. Harrison's flowers - pretty well the whole movie

[RevolutionaryActs]

38. I have two movies that made me bawl the whole way through.

Sometimes in April and Fahrenheit 9/11. :cry:

I know if I watched Hotel Rwanda it would have the same effect as Sometimes in April.

[JohnKleeb]

39. Whats Sometimes in April about?

[RevolutionaryActs]

41. The Rwandan genocide.

Tells the story about a Hutu solider who is married to a Tutsi.

It's so awful, it catalogs how many people died each day. :cry:

[JohnKleeb]

45. Sounds sad

Speaking of movies about Africa, Cry Freedom is one that I cried with. Seeing all those people who had been killed in the custody of the aparteid police jsut up until I Was born, I Was born in 7/87, the movie came out before then, so they obviously didnt document the ones after my birth.

[HeeBGBz]

40. Bridges of Madison County

When Streep doesn't get out of the truck at the end. (I think she was in a truck)

When she doesn't leave her husband for Clint Eastwood.

[FARAFIELD]

42. on the bridges

I thought it was interesting that CLINT (who also directed) used the old film convention of having it rain to signify his tears (since men rarely are shown crying on film).

[HeeBGBz]

48. Whoops

Oops, wrong posting area. Should have posted this elsewhere.

[bridgit]

43. just watched: last o'mohicans...

monroe's 'white' daughter just stepped with such noble calm right off the edge after maqua killed her lover = sad enough for me. didn't cry, but went a little teary. after all the back'n forth the scene is set/drenched in saddness.

:cry:

[Individualist]

44. Imitation of Life

Susan Kohner plays the part of a black girl who tries to pass for white and rejects her mother. When the mother dies, the girl is devastated with regret for the way she'd treated her.

[HeeBGBz]

49. Last 3rd of Gone With the Wind

Starting when Bonnie Blue Butler dies and Mammy describes how Rhett went out and shot the pony.

That point and Melanie's death all the way to the end.

[LizW]

50. The opening of Love Actually

Hugh Grant's voiceover against the scenes of people greeting each other with hugs and kisses at Heathrow Airport.

[elehhhhna]

52. Patty Duke saying "Wa..." to Anne Bancroft.

[bigwillq]

53. The Sixth Sense

When Hayley Joel Osment and Toni Collette are in the car together and HJO is talking about his grandmother. That unexpected moment of sensitivity is why that movie is one of my fave all-time.

Lots of other movie moments make me cry. I'm a movie crier.

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. I just saw "The Notebook" the other day...

and the end just killed me, when Gena Rowlands flipped out, and her husband's heart was just breaking-- that she had recognized him and had been lucid and coherent and back to her old self just a little while before.

That to the end, I was a sobbing mess.

And I'm with the Dumbo nomination. I can remember watching it when I was a little girl and crying like a baby.

There was a movie that came out in the 70s or 80s about Dr. Mudd- the guy who treated John Wilkes Booth. He was sent to an island prison compound and had to deal with such unfairness and injustice. I cried through so much of that movie. It was called "The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd". Dennis Weaver was in it.

Oh-- and of course, Old Yeller.

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[RevolutionaryActs]

70. The Notebook....

aw damn. :cry:

[CBHagman]

58. Life Is Beautiful and Cinema Paradiso...

...are probably the only two films I ever saw that made me weep uncontrollably. I do mean uncontrollably.

I cried all the way through Romero, thinking all the while that the reality in Central America was far worse than what they could show on film.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Mission were also powerful, the former for the Prague Spring theme and the latter for its conclusion.

And then there's that scene in Sense and Sensibility where Elinor (Emma Thompson), having always been the strong one in the family, kneels at her gravely ill sister's (Kate Winslet) bedside and begs her to hang on to life: "Do not leave me alone."

[kodi]

59. last 10 minutes of "the ice storm"

.

[Lisa]

60. the scene at the end of "Lone Star" when Sam tells Pilar ...

... why their parents were so upset that they were dating, more than 20 years earlier. Elizabeth Pena is great -- you can just see the realization flash across her face, in a fraction of a second. And I found myself wishing that Chris Cooper's character weren't so gentle and understanding, because that way it wouldn't be as heartbreaking for her.

(After that, I could see why a lot of viewers didn't like his performance as Dickie Pilager in "Silver City", because the characters are about as different as you can get!)


Other movie scenes:

Fahrenheit 9/11 -- I didn't cry when I saw the (real) footage of all those pieces of paper drifting slowly downwards from where the World Trade Center used to be, but I think it's one of the saddest and most horrifying images from that day. I did weep (and a lot of other people in the theater did too) during Moore's voiceover at the end, when he's explaining, calmly and regretfully, why the wars will keep happening.

The Abyss -- when Ed Harris is typing his final messages.

[New Earth]

61. The Land Before Time

the whole thing makes me cry :blush:

[Nevernose]

62. The Color Purple

The scene where she finally meets her sister. But son't tell anyone that I ever cried during a movie, okay, especially not a chick movie?

[Abelman]

63. Field of Dreams

always makes me cry. The end of "The Iron Giant" is another. "It's a Wonderful Life" at the end. And about three scenes of "Lean on Me," the scene where they're on the roof with Morgan Freeman yelling at the kid.

[fujiyama]

64. I don't cry during movies

but I'd have to say that the Piano was a very depressing movie.

[fujiyama]

78. I actually meant "The Pianist"

I never saw the Piano.

[saltpoint]

65. The final scene of EQUUS, when Richard Burton --

-- as Dr. Dysarts tells the audience "There is in my mouth this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

Also: several scenes in CENTRAL STATION.

Geoffrey Rush, in SHINE, as he tries to perform the Rachmaninoff Third and the concerto's difficulty and his own sorrows and mental stress plunge him into madness on stage.

And the scene in which Peter O'Toole, in GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS, loses the love of his life to Nazi bombing.

[sueh]

66. "You've Got Mail"

when Kathleen (Meg Ryan) closes up and leaves her book store for the last time.

[ComerPerro]

71. Actually, there is an episode of Futurama that made me cry

Its an episode called Jurassic Bark, about Fry's dog that he had in the year 2000. He finds the dog fossilized in a museum exhibit, and tries to get the Professor to clone him. Bender gets jealous of Fry's friendship with the dog, and throws the fossilized remains into lava, but when he sees how much it upsets Fry he goes in and retrieves it.

Everything is set up to clone the dog, when Fry suddenly realizes that his dog lived for several years after Fry was frozen. He then decides that it wouldn't be fair to clone him, since he lived a full life and probably wouldn't even remember Fry at all.

Then, the episode ends with a montage of the dog waiting in front of the Pizza Parlor for Fry to return from the delivery on which he was frozen, and as the dog waits he ages and the seasons pass. There is a sad song playing over the scene, and finally, years later, the dog dies at a very old age, still waiting for Fry to return.

Actually, just from describing the scene I started to cry a little...

[Lisa]

73. another memorable episode ...

Didn't exactly make me cry, but I got misty-eyed and started laughing -- was the one where Bender has those tiny civilizations growing on him. His despair when he couldn't stop them from trying to annihilate each other was that much more poignant, considering how cynical he is most of the time.

[ComerPerro]

75. That one was a fantastic episode

I loved the part where he meets God.

When you do things right, no one will be sure that you've done anything at all.

[Huckebein the Raven]

74. The episode that made me misty eyed was the episode

about his brother Yancy and the 7-leaf clover (??).

[ComerPerro]

76. Yeah, that one got me too. But the one with his dog really did me in

[nicktom]

72. The end of Sleepless in Seattle. n/t.

flame away, I am getting old.

[Huckebein the Raven]

77. The end of The Last Samurai

flame away...don't care.

[xmas74]

79. The last half of Terms of Endearment always makes me cry.

Always.
And in Four Weddings and a Funeral when Matthew reads the WH Auden poem at Gareth's funeral my best friend and I usually start bawling our eyes out. And my daughter's birth makes me cry (wait-wrong kind of movie).

Actually, I am the wrong person to ask. I cry at commercials and I have cried on more than one occasion while watching the news.

[KeepItReal]

81. Roy Firestone reads Rod Tidwell his new contract in "Jerry Maguire"

I can watch that 1 million times. Still gets ya, right there... <sniff!>

"I'm not gonna cry, Roy!!" - Rod Tidwell

[aePrime]

82. When Jenny dies

in Forest Gump. Every time.

Quite a few people don't seem to like that movie, but it's one of my favorites.

[FARAFIELD]

83. i was close there

Hmm i never thought that starting this thread would be so evocative. Despite the fact its about "crying" i think its interesting the different things that do us, everything from FUTURAMA to the obvious like Finding Neverlands. Just a few overlooked things, the closest i came to a cartoon was SIMPSONS when Homer saves FLANDERS "left handed store" and ends by saying "to the richest man in springfield" an obvious homage to "its a wonderful life". Also the Father explaining to June in "joy luck club" why her mother gave up the twin girls. It made me cry, had quite forgotten probably because its a chick flick. But interesting how the big whammy in the movie was delievered by a man, after close to one hour of female driven story lines.

[Scout]

84. when Spock dies

I start blubbering, and can't stop myself!

plus many other scenes already mentioned in this thread ... TKAM, The Green Mile, Dumbo, Old Yeller, Steel Magnolias...

[RebelOne]

85. Any scene where an animal dies or gets killed or injured. n/t

[Bok_Tukalo]

86. "And I don't know. You tell me. This whole dream"

". . . Was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleeing reality like I know I'm liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good, too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us. And it seemed like . . . well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away . . . where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved.

I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."

[deadparrot]

87. ET...

going home.

Okay, so I was four. And an emotional wreck for a week afterwards.

That's the only movie I've even cried at.

[bertha katzenengel]

88. when Dustin Hoffman pushes the mime over in "Tootsie" -- oh, the humanity!

:cry:

:evilgrin:

[mark414]

90. the end of saving private ryan

when tom hanks' character dies.

only movie i've ever cried at

[Maine-ah]

91. The end of Cold Mountain

when Enmin (?sp) dies. I've seen several times now, and I still cry.:cry:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

92. The wake scene in Philadelphia...

especially the t.v. playing old home movies of Tom Hanks' character when he was growing up.

[TheOriginalAmerican]

94. I also cry at the schindlers list scene.

I cry at the end of Ghost when Sam walks into Heaven. I also cry everytime I see the scene from Dangerous Minds when they announce that Emileo is dead after trying to save his life. I feel so strange when I cry because of a movie.

[LeftyMom]

96. When Heather dies in "Highlander"

I am a dork, but it's sad.

[Sugar Smack]

97. Okay, Amelie, Liz, Royal Tennenbaums,

Thelma & Louise- where Louise's devoted boyfriend realizes he may never, ever, ever see her again. A lot of scenes in that movie destroy me.

28 Days- when the sisters re-unite.

The Professional-one of my top ten- when Mathilde has to leave Leon before they're both killed and..he says.."I love you..Mathilde" OH, GOD, I CAN'T STAND IT!!! :cry:





Cried at Titanic, when that damned fool woman threw that billion dollar necklace in the ocean. Fool. D'you know what that money could have been used for? Gggrrrrrrrrrr..