Saddest movie scene?

[Archae]

According to ABC news, the saddest movie scene is from "The Champ," when Ricky Shroder can't get the Champ to wake up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

Anyone know any sadder ones?

[idiotgardener]

1. When Ledger finds Gyllenhaals shirt in Brokeback Mtn

or the car wreck scene in What Dreams May Come.

[fizzgig]

34. the end of brokeback mountain kills me

[Taverner]

59. Even sadder, for me, is when he's talking to his daughtrer

"Well, does he love you?"

[digonswine]

70. Correct--n/t

[CBGLuthier]

2. Every Single Scene in Grave of the Fireflies

We used to make fun of The Champ's obvious melodrama. We would call out, "Champ! Champ!" and then laugh. It is a lame remake of a lame original and sad as hell that it gets to the top of any list other than the over-wrought crap list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdYPBIuhJY

[kentauros]

4. I was trying to remember what scenes in "Grave of the Fireflies"

would apply, and other than the reminiscing scene near the end, I think you're right. One sad, yet brilliant, movie and story.

[Whisp]

11. saddest scenes ever.

I cried a lot during that.

[rbnyc]

93. + 1 (nt)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. the scene from Total Eclipse when Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine

have this conversation:

Arthur Rimbaud: Do you love me?
Paul Verlaine: What?
Arthur Rimbaud: Do you love me?
Paul Verlaine: Yes...
Arthur Rimbaud: Then put your hand on the table.
Paul Verlaine: What?
Arthur Rimbaud: Put your hand on the table.

[Maccagirl]

5. Many to choose from but the scene in Sophie's Choice

comes immediately to mind. The funeral scene in "Steel Magnolias" is a tear-jerker too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. I lost it totally in Steel Magnolias

during the scene where M'Lynn ( Sally Field) is driving to pick up her grandson after Shelby dies.
Something about the setting sun and the southern colors in that scene, the poignancy, did me in.

[douglas9]

6. Old Yeller n/t

[raccoon]

13. You beat me to the post. Another: "My Girl," when the father tells Veda that the

little boy died.

[RebelOne]

16. "The Yearling" when the boy had to shoot the deer. n/t

[barb162]

79. Or any movie where the animal dies n/t

[fishwax]

30. oh yeah -- and along similar lines, Where the Red Fern Grows

[AngryAmish]

7. The beginning of Up

[Luciferous]

20. I cried like a baby at the beginning of that movie...

[fizzgig]

33. i boohooed my way through the first part of that movie

my husband and i saw it at the drive-in right before we got married. he looked at me and said 'what are you crying about, it's just a cartoon.'

[Sentath]

51. blink blink

And you're married?

Did I hear that right?

[EnviroBat]

41. One of the saddest Pixar pieces to date.

I cried in the theater, and I held my girlfriends hand hoping that would never be "us". Unfortunately, it ended up being "us" just a few months later, only we never grew old together...

[Taverner]

62. I gave up on 'Up' after that

I really didn't need to bawl any more that day

[EOTE]

96. You should really see the rest.

Yes, the first 12 minutes or so are awfully sad, but it's a fantastic movie. I'm a big Pixar fan and I consider "Up" to be one of, if not the best of their films.

[EOTE]

95. Wow. What a beautiful scene.

It takes a lot to make me tear up, and that one did it. And how unique that a movie begins with a scene so melancholic and then moves on from there. I think the lack of nearly any dialog made it a lot more potent. Pixar has done some amazing stuff, I consider "Up" be be up there with the best of their works.

[muffin1]

8. That one's pretty sad.

I don't know about "sadder", but several scenes in "My Dog Skip", the scene at the vet office in "Year of the Dog", and "saddest" to me is the last scene in "The Way We Were".

[GoCubsGo]

25. And, on those lines...

The scene in "Harry and Tonto", where Tonto dies. Lots of other sad scenes in that film, too.

[muffin1]

35. Ahem...I've never seen "Harry and Tonto"...

No need to now, I guess!

:hi:

[GoCubsGo]

45. It's actually a great movie.

Art Carney won an Oscar for his role in it, deservedly. I still recommend watching it, even though it's sad.

[Adsos Letter]

9. The final scene in [i]Planes, Trains, and Automobiles[/i]

Maybe not the saddest, but it comes as something of a shock (at least to me it did).

[deutsey]

14. John Candy played that ending perfectly

You could see the ongoing sadness in his expression over the loss of his wife mixed with the happiness at being welcomed into Steve Martin's family.

Very understated and poignant.

[EnviroBat]

42. My God, he was good.

I loved John. He could make you laugh, and cry...

[sinkingfeeling]

72. Posted in wrong place.

[charlie and algernon]

10. Shawshank Redemption - "Brooks was Here" scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kotNxb2YApk

James Whitmore's character, Brooks, is released from prison after being in for 50 years.

[Luciferous]

22. Yeah, that part made me cry.

[Graybeard]

12. Dumbo's mother in jail.

Falsely accused, Dumbo's mother has been caged as a wild animal. She tries to reach out between the bars with her trunk to caress her son. Gets me teary-eyed every time.

[Lindsey]

15. There are so many....Shawshank Redemtion for sure when

Brooks dies and other scenes in that movie, The Notebook when the Older Allie remembers for just a few minutes who the older Noah is and then when they die in the nursing home bed together, Terms of Endearment when Shirley McClain is screaming at the nursing station that it's time for her daughters pain medication, My Dog Skip at the Vets, Brokeback Mountain during the scene when Heath Ledger is smelling Jake Gillenhalls shirt. I'm a movie fanatic so there are so many more but these are off the top of my head.

[marigold20]

80. Oh, that scene led to great, gasping sobs

in front of my whole family! We were watching Dumbo on TV and I was about sixteen. My brothers found it quite amusing.

[ohiosmith]

18. Bride of Frankenstein when the bride rejects the monster.

[dimbear]

32. Yeah, that's a heartbreaker. Every guy on the planet knows that feeling. n/t

[frogmarch]

19. Tuck Everlasting - final scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RFHzTNRqug :cry:

Winnie decides not to drink from the spring of everlasting life. Olden day scene morphs into present day. Tuck visits Winnie's grave.

The scene was so sad that despite how beautiful I thought the movie was, I can't bring myself to watch it again.

[Luciferous]

21. The end of Toy Story 3 when Andy is driving away and Woody says, "So long partner."

The death scene in Benjamin Button is pretty sad...
The end of The Notebook where they die holding hands...

I'm a big baby though and it doesn't take much to make me cry!

[OmahaBlueDog]

88. I hate crying, I hate crying in front of my kids. Therefore, I hate PIXAR

OK, I love Pixar, but I agree on TS3. Actually, when Andy hands Woodie to Bonnie I lose it.

..and when we see the scrapbook in Up, I lose it

.. and when Marlin picks up Nemo's egg after his wife and the other eggs are murdered, I tear up

Thanks, Pixar.

[givemebackmycountry]

23. "Testament" and the end of "Jacob's Ladder"

Back in the early 80's "Threads" was released.
A end of the world nuclear holocaust type of movie.
Then came "Testament" a relentlessly sad movie that rips your heart out multiple times.
I watched it once and I was depressed for days.

Jane Alexander plays Carol, who is married and living in a suburban California town with her husband and family.
He's away on business up north and calls to say he's going to arrive late.
Then a newsflash on TV that says the Eastern Coast has been destroyed by nuclear blasts.
Seconds later they hit San Francisco, destroying everything and spewing radiation for hundreds of miles.
That's where her husband was.

Alexanders moving performance is heartbreaking.
They are all dying, her children and friends and neighbors.

There is a scene were her teenage daughter wants to know what making love is like, knowing that she never will experience it.
She searches desperately for the teddy bear her son loved so he can be buried with it.
And the scene where she stoically sews her daughter Mary's burial shroud around her.

I lost it when she decided to press the message button on her answering machine without much thought, and there was a message from her husband that she hadn't yet heard.
Crushing.


AND TO ADD.

The ending of "Jacob's Ladder" just about turned me into a puddle.

[Taverner]

63. "Testament" I could see

In fact, that movie, more than any other, made me reconsider my RW programming at the time


But "Jacob's Ladder"? Great movie, but wouldn't really classify it alongside Testament

[Brickbat]

24. I cry at pretty much every movie. "The Great Escape" makes me cry.

[nytemare]

26. Sophie's Choice, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Both scenes are just devastating.

The Choice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Dxx3_iF14

End of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-bR1WBOttU

[bigwillq]

27. Striped Pyjamas

:cry:

Such a wonderful, although sad, movie. I cried like a baby.

[nytemare]

29. Wasn't watching that like a punch in the gut?

It was just heart-wrenching. I don't think I can count how many times I said "noooooooooooo" at the end of that film. And the music was achingly beautiful.

:cry:

[HughBeaumont]

37. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas did make me cry, it made me sick.

It made me want to fill a bathtub with acid and jump in it at the thought of humans ever doing this to one another.

As if The Pianist and Schindler's List didn't make me absolutely HATE Nazis enough . . .

[txwhitedove]

28. Cold Mountain, when Inman is almost home he has a horse race and shootout with

crazy Home Guard kid. Kid falls to the ground, YEAH!! Then Inman turns..., and the look on his face...

No spoilers if you haven't seen it. Many, many sad scenes in that movie, including the boy hit with a bayonet at the crater, when he dies and says he'll get back to Cold Mountain before Inman.

War sucks.

[Denninmi]

31. When Charlotte died and left Wilbur all alone.

Of course, I was like 7 when I saw this in 1972/1973-ish time period, whenever it came out. I remember crying a lot, and then noticed I wasn't the only little boy in the theater crying -- we went on a class trip, almost everyone was crying.

[hyphenate]

49. I remember crying at the book

when we read it. It made me think better of spiders--at least talking ones!

[TuxedoKat]

36. One of the saddest

for me was in the movie "Goodbye Again" when Ingrid Bergman parts with Anthony Perkins. No one dies, but such good acting, makes me cry buckets.
.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

38. Here's one to consider;

from "Sometimes a Great Notion", it's the drowning scene..........
http://youtu.be/vKdF-IP7rE0

[Divameow77]

39. Imitation of Life

When the daughter comes back for her's mothers funeral.

[Beaverhausen]

65. oh yeah, that one's a killer

[rbnyc]

92. + 1 (nt)

[EnviroBat]

40. I hate to admit this, but the ending of The Gladiator always chokes me up.

You know, the scene when Russel Crowe is dying. I think it's because of the soundtrack that is going on at that point in the film. It's haunting, and brings up every emotion of loss that I've ever felt whenever I hear it.

[hamsterjill]

43. Mystic River

When Sean Penn's character realizes that the dead body belongs to his daughter.

[sinkingfeeling]

73. Self delete.

[Ryano42]

44. The Right Stuff, when the NF-104 Starfighter crashes...

What a sweet machine... :cry:



But Yeager survives so it's all good! :D

[Deep13]

46. When what's-his-name dies at the end of Crouching Tiger. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. Phenomenon when John Travolta is dying. nt

[hyphenate]

48. Brian Piccolo dying

The original, with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams

[GoCubsGo]

50. The scene In"An Inconvenient Truth" where...

... the Supreme Court gives the 2000 election to Shit-for-Brains. I'm crying now just thinking about it. I cried just as hard the day it happened, because I knew what was coming.

[RedCloud]

52. When they ask us to shut up during the movie!

[RSillsbee]

53. Wrath of Khan

when Spock dies

Or the end of BSG when Kara "Starbuck" Thrace vanished

ETA I almost forgot

" Dr. Samuel Beckett never returned home"

[mreilly]

68. Agreed, that one definitely comes to mind...

... not a big Trekkie myself but I do know enough about (and like) the original series to think Spock's death is especially poignant when you juxtapose it against how indifferent he was at the beginning of the series; how separated from the humans he wanted to be nothing like.

[LynneSin]

54. Several include but the best by far is Beaches *spoilers*

Not just the ending when Barbara Hershey dies but afterwards when Bette Midler realizes she was the one selected to raise Barbara's kid. The kid was just so sad, so solemn and the closing song "Wings Beneath My Wings" leaves anyone who watches it in tears.


Also includes:

"Bridges of Madison County" - the scene where Meryl and her on-screen husband are at the redlight and she can see that Clint is in the Truck behind theirs. She's grabbing onto the door handle like she's ready to bolt but realizes she needs to stick with the marriage she is in. If I recall - I cried that entire movie.

"The Notebook" - when for a short time the old woman remembers who she is and that the story she heard was her love story.

"Benjamin Button" - I couldn't imagine my true love growing younger to the point that he becomes basically an egg. It was very well done.

[LibDemAlways]

55. It's an oldie, but the final scene in

Splendor in the Grass when Natalie Wood has been released from the mental hospital and asks her friends to take her to see her old flame played by Warren Beatty. Their meeting gets me every time.

[State the Obvious]

71. "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass...

......of glory in the flower, I will grieve not, but rather find strength in what remains behind."

(One of my favorite verses.)

[RockaFowler]

56. Field of Dreams

The end when Kevin Costner asks his Dad if he wants to play catch. Gets me everytime

[Taverner]

61. Yep - does it for me too

[Recovered Repug]

57. The start of "Battlefield Earth"

because it was the START of "Battlefield Earth". What the hell was I thinking?

[swimboy]

58. Sad or beautiful--end of Big Fish

I bawled and wailed.

My dad is a storyteller.

[Taverner]

60. Yeah, that end does it for me...

[Bladian]

64. End of Toy Story 3 for me and my buddies.

When Andy was dropping the toys off at the little girl's house and they were playing with them was awful.

[Beaverhausen]

66. I watched the last 5 minutes of that yesterday and wept like a baby

so touching and sweet. I'm crying now just thinking about it.

[BiggJawn]

67. Final scene of "Das Boot".

I mean, damn, they almost made it home in one piece...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

69. "In the Name of the Father" when...

Guiseppe Conlon (Pete Postlethwaite) dies and the prisoners toss the lighted materials out their windows. It's a stunningly beautiful night-time scene, and tragic since Guiseppe was innocent.

[sinkingfeeling]

74. Crap I cry at anything. Even Snape's memories in the last Potter film. And I've read the book

3 times and knew what they were.

[hunter]

94. Or Hermione deleting her parents memories and all evidence she ever existed...

... to protect them from Lord Voldemort.

[applegrove]

75. The last scene from "Missing" where the father and wife bring the body home.

[pink-o]

76. Nobody has mentioned the end of "The Bicycle Thief" ??????

When the poor father realizes there's nothing he can do, he takes his kid's hand and just gives up? Okay, no great sweeping drama, but I can't think of too many sadder things than that!

[Taverner]

77. "Life is Beautiful" - - You know the scene

Not going to post or repeat it here

Yes, Beningi did "Day the Clown Cried" right...

'Nuff said...

[pink-o]

78. Also, Cinema Paradiso. When the man comes back to the village

and watches the outtakes of the kissing scenes, the reel left to him by his old friend the projectionist. Maybe it's because I'm sooooo completely Italiphile, but nothing from Hollywood can break your heart like the 2 films I just mentioned. Even the OP cited the remake of "The Champ" which was done by Zeferelli. (His Romeo and Juliet is so completely heartwrenching, you find yourself just begging for a different ending). Listen, Italy rules: for history, for food, for beautiful people, for passion, for La Dolce Vita, it only makes sense the Italians make the most amazing movies.

[MrScorpio]

81. When Forrest spoke to Jenny's grave.

[Dianne4403]

82. Disney Movie

I think it was when the hunters killed Bambis mother

[provis99]

83. the opening scene of Star Trek 2009.

Watching James Kirk's dad die alone on the ship, with the sad music playing, actually made me cry! Only time I've ever cried at a movie.

[Broken_Hero]

84. Once were Warriors,

a scene towards the end of the movie.

Jake the muss scene, where he vents about...well, spoilers.































In the previous scene, his daughter hangs herself, cause one of Jake's friends raped her, and Jake and the family didn't know about it. The mom/dad freak out of course, but at first Jake doesn't freak out much, he is more surprised/shocked than anything. Later on after that scene, it starts to hit him while he is drinking. He goes out into the back yard with his axe and starts cutting down the tree, that his daughter hung herself from. He hits it with such force/such emotion, the axe breaks, and then he uses his fists to try and tear it down. He can't destroy the tree, and just hugs the base of it, and begins to cry/let loose the emotion. This was the first time in the movie he expressed emotion outside of pure rage/ego driven wants.

[OmahaBlueDog]

85. When Schindler says "I could have sold the car"

that final scene in Schindler's List gets me every time.

A bunch of others have been mentioned (Up, Brian's Song, TS3)

Another one that absolutely does me in is the final scene in Barry Levinson's "Avalon." I won't explain it, because it requires explaining the movie, but I bawl like a 4 year old at the end of that movie.

[Broken_Hero]

86. ah, yes.

that scene in Shindlers List gets me every time too, I usually try not to watch it, or fight very hard not to get worked up about it, but I always fail. Another scene that gets me is when he is spraying the train cars down with the water hose...hell, lots of scene's get me in that flick.

[OmahaBlueDog]

87. Another one - The twirling scene in "You've Got Mail"

When Meg Ryan takes one last look at her now-empty book store, and sees herself as a girl being twirled by her mother, whose store it once was.

[SoDesuKa]

89. Terms of Endearment

Remember how this scene ends?



Not a dry eye in the house

[FloridaJudy]

90. The end of "Requiem for a Dream"

When everybody hits bottom. That movie depressed and creeped me out so bad I couldn't sleep for two nights.

I also bawl my head off in at least three places in "Children of Men": two because they're so sad, and one because it's so bloody hopeful.

[rbnyc]

91. The end of The Mist.

I can hardly stand to think about it.

[hifiguy]

97. The last reel or so of "La Strada"

absolutely destroyed me when I saw it years ago.

[Maine-ah]

98. the end of Cold Mountain.

[ceile]

99. Hope Floats

when the daughter is running after the father's car screaming "daddy take me with you!"