What's your cry-like-a-baby movie of all time?

I'm torn between Forrest Gump and Field of Dreams. I know there's a strong current (heh!) of support for Titanic, but I've never seen it all. The parts I saw were sort of a laugh riot (let's have a chase scene through decks flooded with freezing water on a sinking ship!), but I'll take everybody's word for it. I'm not sure if Casablanca really gets me; it's so sweet and beautiful, but at the same time taut, I'm not sure I ever get around to crying. You?

"Secrets And Lies," "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Dead Poets Society" always get to me.

so manny scarifices

That part at the end, where everyone brings their money to save George Bailey. God, gets me every time!

I must have seen the movie at least a dozen times (my local art house theatre runs it on the big screen every Christmas) and I always psyche myself up for the end but to no avail - the tears come anyway.

The most superb, manipulative piece of hokum ever devised! Love it to bits!!!:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

The Skin

"A toast, to my big brother George. The richest man in town"

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I am soooooo glad I when to see that movie alone in a nearly-empty dollar-theater.

I bawled like I was being interviewed on Oprah. It was embarrassing.

because it was so funny how fucking awful that movie was but

Different strokes for different folks.
Hope you had some tissues and didn't have to use those real thin movie napkins.

I had to swipe a roll of TP from the bathroom.

Thanks, I needed to laugh.

It's been a sad week around DU.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

When she throws Cat out of the taxi, then runs after him down the alley, crying his name.

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I'm like Pavlov's fucking dog....

and then she finds that poor wet baby

I focus on the look on that poor cat's face.

He is NOT a happy camper! :)

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you're gonna make me cry again!

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:D We are saps! :D

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When he is saying to her "you belong to me!" I weep.

laugh a minute, cry a minute all round great movie... And Titanic, just during the "there's a boat, Jack" scene...

I love that line.

You're right. One moment you're laughing, the next you're crying.

Sally Field when they're in the cemetery gets me every time.

..thinking how utterly stupid I was to ever pay 6 bucks to see that monstrosity. :)

I have never cried so much over a movie as I did in the final scene when Ryan, now a grandfather, stands at the graves completely tormented with dispair. He realizes what his comrades sacrificed for him, and he is haunted by whether his life thereafter was worthy of the sacrifice. What a terrible thing to live a life with that kind of burden.

Very powerful. Also some of the scenes in "Fahrenheit 9/11" were pretty emotional: the 9/11 segment and the scenes with Mrs. Lipscomb in particular were heart wrenching.

It's funny: conservatives like to say we liberals hate America, but when I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" most of the audience was in tears during the segment of the film that was just the audio of the aftermath of the planes crashing into the towers. I'm in Oregon, and I'm pretty sure that the majority of us had never been to New York City, but we grieved just the same. That's how much we hated America.

Without a doubt.

And "Bambi" when the mother (it was the mother, right?) was shot.

"Steel Magnolias", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Dead Poet's Society" and way back when, "Brian's Song"

always gets me

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

So poignant it overcomes the god-awful acting

with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Black and White.

brings me to my knees, every time.

.....when her little boy comes in her hospital room and his little chin is quiverin'....breaks my heart and makes me squall EVERY time! :cry:

Just give her the damn shot!"

I watch it every time it's on TV even though I blubber through the end.

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It was filmed in Lincoln,and she often stayed at the Governor's Mansion.

Something about Return of the King just resonated with me. I sobbed almost all the way through. It wasn't just a little thing. I was shaking all over and couldn't sleep. I watched the movie just once more, but I'm afraid to watch it again because the main theme of the movie hits so close to home for me. I really can't explain it.

I fell in love with LOTR while I was in junior high, about 25 years ago. I've read it many times. The movie will never be as good as the book, but I was a wreck by the time they got to the Grey Havens. After all they had been through, and how Frodo suffered even after it was all over...

But I did cry a lot at the end of "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" as well.

That one is a killer.

I didn't know they had made a newer version.

1934's IMITATION OF LIFE, starring Claudette Colbert.

It always makes me cry. I think it was a pretty daring movie for it's time, the way it explores racial issues and stereotypes. All this time, "Miss Laura" never realizes her maid is this terrific person who supports three churches and is loved by the entire black community of LA. Her own daughter was so embarrassed of her black mother, because she could "pass", that she doesn't appreciate her either, until she's dead. Sarah Jane, the daughter, always related more to "Miss Laura", the star she wanted to be. Laura's daughter just wants her mom's boyfriend for herself, but is probably the only person who really appreciates Annie, because she has been a reliable mother for her whole life.

"Ordinary People" always makes me cry, too.

it's not THAT great of a movie (Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr.) but it's the topic of it that gets me. It's the one where the couple's kids are killed in a car accident, then HE dies in a car accident, then....well, I won't go into it.

It involves afterlife, heaven, hell, destiny, true love, death, life.

And wow it's a tearjerker. I literally sobbed aloud one time (I've seen it three times).

Il Postino was SO SAD AND BEAUTIFUL!

My Life As A Dog Was SO SAD AND FUNNY!

music that rips your heart out.

:)

Sophies Choice...

But the last line of "Hannah And Her Sisters" did it for me.

And also don't forget "...you had me at hello."

now i have to watch it again. That moment is just so melting!

I cry every time at It's a Wonderful Life, no matter when i tune in...
and for some reason, even the overture to The Sound of Music makes me squinch up and hold back a sob.

I'm a sentimental sap that's all....

think am only one....had lost father rather recent

Field of Dreams does it more for me, but I definitely cried at the end of Big Fish...

One of my all time favorites.Gummo is another movie that makes salt water fall out of my eyes.:cry:

...I can usually hold it....but not this one...

I'm weird, I guess. But injustice gets to me more than anything...

Sorry...I have " daddy issues "

That catch scene at the end does it for me every time...

And the "have a catch" does me in every time.

Cheers -- :toast:

and another Rick Schroder movie with William Holden "The Earthling".
"Cinema Paradiso" gets a honorable mention also.

Oh just rip my damn heart out.

That reminds me, my oldest son used to call him Wicky Show-doos.

I defy anyone to watch the scene where her mother abandons her children under the tree because she thinks she's dying and that they are better off there than with her and not dissolve into a mass of blubber. Brutal. I go through a box of Kleenex every time.

I had forgotten this one.

How could I possibly forget The Joy Luck Club? I ALWAYS sob like a baby over that one!

The one that gets me is the flashback to cleaning up after dinner when the mother tells the daughter she has "quality heart".

I'm going to start crying if I even think about the movie today!

and if someone is gonna do a songs thread, same answer.

yeah, im a softy.

I thought Terms of Endearment, Tess of the Durbervilles and any movie where an animal dies, like Harry and Tonto are sobbers. Titantic was a joke as a tearjerker as I don't see L. Dicaprio as a lovable character. Agree with comment on running around the ship in freezing water and all.

how about any but Jaws. Though I didn't like the scenes of them harpooning/torturing the shark.

Lassie Come Home and The Yearling really get me.

aw, ponies, dogs, deer, I can't stand it.

I'm such a baby.

and has fabulous music by Aaron Copeland, but the poor beautiful pony dies. I think it was made in the 1950s.

It was such a wretched movie, that I cried not because of the drama of the scene, but because Connery was so utterly far and above a better actor and more majestic and awesome presence - he WAS King Richard - that I cried, I was so overjoyed to see him.

Otherwise, man, that movie is worth crying over cuz it's such a POS.

I just can't handle it. I use to have anxiety attacks when my daughter was a newborn that involved "day-mares" of her dying in a car wreck or by some random act of violence that I was unable to stop. Postpartum depression is scary crap. But even now, I can't watch movies with those situations. Monsters Ball KILLED me.

Plot Summary
In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage . Living in a haunted house by the sea is a less frightening prospect for Lucy Muir, a young widow with a small daughter, than continuing to live with her sisters-in-law. At first Captain Gregg plays the same tricks on Lucy he has used to get rid of previous tenants. This ghost who loves solitude soon comes to admire her spunk and to make it possible for her to afford to stay in the house he decides she will write a best-seller, his memoirs.

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along with Operation Petticoat and Father Goose.

It's got a terrific film score, too!

The end of that movie KILLS me.

That one gets me more than anything else.

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magical!

The movie version of the Broadway musicals. If you know them, then you'll know what I mean.

I listen to my CD of the 1994 Broadway version...and after You'll Never Walk Alone comes on, I cry through the rest of the CD.

I was a mess! We had to wait to leave because I didn't want anyone seeing my red eyes...

makes me cry endlessly.Remember the Titans made hubby cry too.
By the way Schindlers List is one of my fav movies after citizen kane

kind of appropriate right now.

Something about Bobcat Goldthwait moves me so.... :cry:

"..he's gonna f*ck that little dog"

That's one of the funniest movie lines of ALL TIME.

...whenever I see * with Barney.

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When I was little my parents rented me this movie. I haven't watched since, although I'd like to, but when I watched for the first time I bawled my eyes out for the poor kitty (Milo) getting swept away by the waterfall! I was traumatized! (That's the only movie I've ever cried for -- that I can remember -- btw.)

when the Nazis take away the Jewish children and the priest that had been hiding them at the school. The other kids, in an act of defiance, stat saying "au revoir, mon pere". It's based on the true story of Louis Malle's childhood, and I'm crying just thinking of that scene! :cry:

His story was so beautifully told. Too bad more people don't know about it.

Gladiator gets me every time.

Antoninus: I love you as if you were my own father.
Spartacus: I love you as if you were my own son.
Then he has to kill him so he won't be crucified then Varinia shows him the baby who is free as he's on the cross.

Terms of Endearment
My Life as a House
Shipping News
Steal Magnolias
The Deep End of the Ocean
Farenheit 9/11

To name a few. I'm a crier.

2 kinds of tears..Anna & King sad...Sleepless happy

For some reason it just touched me sooo much when she and her film hubby are breaking up but share their memories thru this cool device he's invented where you can record your thoughts and feelings and someone else can experience them. So poignant.

Pollock, too, had me weeping.

Brian's Song makes me cry every time.

Cinema Paradiso as well, especially the last scene. One of the best movies ever.

I can barely watch it.
My friend's brother is a gung-ho ex Marine. The only movies he cries during are "Brian's Song" and "La Bamba".

Just saw that tonight.
The scene in the bathtub killed me...
"when I'm with you...I feel safe"
Why didn't my ex understand...:cry:

I just saw Garden State last week. I cried the whole time.

It's probably the most underrated animated film of all time, and I cry like a baby at the end everytime I watch it.

That's a good one for me.

Ang Lee, the director, said he wanted to break the audience's heart. I think he succeeded brilliantly, with an assist from Thompson.

i was so unprepared for the ending, i just sat there crying like a baby as the last scene unfolded.

it was personal. at 15, my best friend died right after school of a heart attack. when i came home that day from school my dad opened the door and said he had heard that someone had died at my school that day. i told him "it was billy." i remember him saying "oh, jesus christ, no!" then he looked at me with tears in his eyes the same way kevin kline did to his son.

I know that's not the *kind* of cry like a baby emotion you were thinking of, but after I saw that movie the first time I went outside my house and sobbed for 30 minutes. Hate is destroying the world, and its so sad.

are two very different movies that come to my mind as being really emotionally devastating for me.

Although, I defy anyone to watch the "Baby Mine" scene from Dumbo and not be moved.

That one really got to me. Still get teary thinking about it. Also, My Dog Skip and Steel Magnolias.

Titanic..

I've seen it at least ten times. In fact I'm watching it as I type this. I just love that movie, and I cry every damn time I see it :cry: . Heck, I sometimes even get misty eyed when I listen to the soundtrack....

Go ahead. Make fun of me.

I'm snarky, sarcastic, and a hard core skeptic. But I'm perfectly willing to suspend disbelief and snarkiness for a film if it's done well.

Titanic was done well.

Of course, I've been known to well up at those sappy "Olympic moments" NBC was doing the last two weeks.

with Roberto Begnini playing. Laughter trough tears, and choked laughter all in one film.

The only WW II Movie that felt like it was taking place in real time.

Starring Superman and Jane Seymour

I was about 12 years old and completely broke down at the end - a mother and child walked out of the Alamo at the end, the only survivors. Keep in mind, I was 12!

There are about 5 different moments of that which cause me to well up.

That's my number one choke up movie for now.
The Professor

Good old "Bawl'mer" (that's Baltimore) and Barry filming around town for three months!:beer:

boys on the side.. one of my favorite movie scenes is when whoopi sings to mary louis parker at the end. it's so sweet and so sad at the same time.

When Mister breaks up the two sisters
When Shug reconciles with her father
When Celie meets her children

Return of the King-- at the end, but The Color Purple does it to me everytime

I wept uncontrollably at both, though I had the stronger reaction at Cinema Paradiso. I remember standing on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo, still in tears, as my friend stood helplessly by.

Man, when they carry that sled accross the line after the crash, I just can't help it. It's one of the great moments in movies.

Yeah, it'a s silly little Disney Comedy, with significant and substantial character development and a genuine moment of catharsis.

I only watched a few minutes of it but I wept harder and longer than I ever have in my life. Why God, why?

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What a great flick!

right when Neil Young's song "City of Brotherly Love" comes up at the end.

It's way cool that Bruce has an Oscar on his shelf for "Streets of Philadelphia", but Neil's song is the one that got me.

They killed me before I lost 6 friends to AIDS in the last 8 years. I can't even imagine watching the end of Long Time Companion now.

I also cry when they kill Matthew Broderick in Torch Song.

You can ignore this, though; I'm just replying to get this back on My Posts for another 24 hours. It's ok by me if it starts its plummet to the Archives now. :)

Denzel's best acting job ever....a cry for national and free healthcare

The part where he tells the doctor to take out his heart and give it to his son still tugs at my heart strings everytime I think about it....or the part where he's about to kill himself and he's talking to his son....man...if you haven't seen it - go see it.

The first "disaster movie" that led you to believe that large numbers of people being killed was a bad thing.

Actually, Irwin Allen's movies also made this point, especially The Poseidon Adventure. But Deep Impact was the first one like that in years.

The "worst" scene of all: Tea Leoni and Maximillian Schell on the beach in North Carolina as the tsunami comes in.

But there were plenty of lost-control scenes in that movie. Losing one's loved ones in a natural disaster is every bit as painful as losing them to cancer.

Science fiction has an undeserved bad reputation for being emotionally bloodless. Good S-F usually has a painful scene of loss (or two) at some point. The scene in The Abyss where the scientist drowns his estranged wife, drags her across the bottom of the ocean, and resuscitates her, usually gets to me pretty good. The scene in The Day After Tomorrow where the English meteorologists finally lose power (and so are doomed to freeze to death) has a major tear-wrench: the black meteorologist laments that he won't get a chance to see his son grow up, and the elderly scientist remarks that at least he will grow up.

Although there are many who hated it, the new Battlestar Galactica had many of those scenes, too. That the Cylons had completely murdered a multi-planet civilization of billions of people was made very painfully clear. The original series made it seem more like a Pearl Harbor style attack that supposedly wiped out the main planets but left all the far-flung outposts intact.

--bkl