# Crying At Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763 "2011-06-17T00:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/41 "2011-06-17T17:33:20Z")
“Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?” from Field of Dreams. Hell tears me up just typing it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/42 "2011-06-17T17:38:12Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > “Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?” from Field of Dreams. Hell tears me up just typing it. That’s one that gets me, too. I know that the song _Alone Again, Naturally_ always chokes me up when I hear it. Never fails. Probably the sincerity in missing his parents, but something about the whole song grabs me. But I’m having trouble remembering a movie that gets me every time. There has to be at least one, but I must be repressing it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/43 "2011-06-17T17:40:20Z")
SWMBO cries at movies. She probably found something to cry about in “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”. I’ve gotten puddle-eyed in a couple, but the only movie that I have downright bawled in was “Big Fish”. Turns out I apparently have some unresolved father issues… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/44 "2011-06-17T17:42:57Z")
Ever seen the show _Flashpoint_? I find it quite comical that they try so _ **hard** _ to make the ending of every episode hyper-melodramatic. I end up laughing at it instead. I do recall being sad at the end of the _Futurama_ episode “Jurassic Bark” when Fry’s dog waited out in front of the pizza shop for him for the rest of his life after Fry had been frozen. _sniffle_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/45 "2011-06-17T18:36:43Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > “My friends! You bow to _no one_!” Gets me every time. This… every time. _Casablanca_- the "beautiful friendship part… forget it… _Frequency_- the part where the main guy talks to his dad through the radio the day after his dad was supposed to die in the fire. I bawled at that scene before I lost my dad, haven’t been able to watch it since. _Secondhand Lions_- I was bawling and yelling “Get out of the car, kid!” when the kid’s mom comes back for him and is taking him away. Tearing up just typing this… ugh. ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/46 "2011-06-17T19:08:40Z")
_Time Travelers Wife_. Why, yes, I am a softy. 🙂 J. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/47 "2011-06-17T19:16:38Z")
I was choking up a little at the end of this season’s finale of _South Park_. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/48 "2011-06-17T19:18:16Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > “My friends! You bow to _no one_!” Gets me every time. “I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things,” really got me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/49 "2011-06-17T19:31:21Z")
> [@Larry\_McAwful](#): > > I watch _It’s a Wonderful Live_ every Christmas season, and I cry every time. I also cry at footage of Nazi rallies and anything to do with Nazis. Simulated stuff doesn’t do it for me–I didn’t cry at _Schindler’s List_. It has to be genuine, or my eyes are dry. You do know that Clarence didn’t _really_ get his wings, right? I’m in the “easily manipulated” camp - if the film maker even thought “this could make someone emotional” at some point during a scene, I’ll probably tear a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/50 "2011-06-17T19:55:25Z")
Oh boy do I cry. The end of “Gigot” with Jackie Gleason. I was about 8. Brother and I are alone. Mom and Dad are out for the evening. I am sobbing… Mom and Dad walk in. Start yelling at my brother. " What did you do to him !!! " 😃 The Notebook. Wept. Cinema Paradiso. As a camera guy, I know what a 35mm 100 foot can looks like. I started crying thirty seconds before everyone else, at the end when the package is opened. The rest of the audience list it one the footage started to roll on the screen. Brian’s Song. Saw it in 8th grade on school. The girls wept. The boys played stoic. As an adult, I cried to make up for the pubescent stoicism. The end of the series Six Feet Under. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/51 "2011-06-17T19:57:20Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > The end of the series Six Feet Under. Wow. Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/52 "2011-06-17T22:03:22Z")
> [@StuffLikeThatThere](#): > > “I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things,” really got me, too. "A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. "An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!! “By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!” That’s the one that gets me. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/53 "2011-06-17T22:35:04Z")
My emotions are easily manipulated, and I cry on cue whenever the director wants me to. The list of movies that DON’T make me cry is way shorter than the list of movies that do. However, I saw **Up** in the theater, alone, shortly after my father died. He and my mother were just weeks past their 52nd wedding anniversary when he passed away. My mother was so bereft–my worry for her, coupled with my own grief at losing my dad made me pretty ragged, emotionally. And I went to see **Up**. Cry? More like embarrassing, uncontrollable sobs. I apologize if any of you were in the theater with me that afternoon. I must have been a sight. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/54 "2011-06-17T22:58:49Z")
**Steophan** , your post helped me remember another of my tearing-up moments. [Henry V - Band of Brothers Speech - HQ 480p - Kenneth Branagh 1989 Film](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680NlRI3v2I) makes me wonder if we don’t need a companion thread for “Rousing Speeches That Bring Gooseflesh,” or the like. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/55 "2011-06-17T23:01:09Z")
I got choked up at the end of “Marley and Me” and “Turner and Hooch.” Guess you can lump me in with the dog lovers. Also - Armageddon. Not the scene where Harry has to say goodbye to Gracie, but the scene at the landing site when the little boy comes running out to greet his Dad, and the Dad realizes that his son finally knows who his Daddy is. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/56 "2011-06-18T00:17:38Z")
I think **Frequency** with Dennis Quaid was witness to the worst crying jag I ever experienced in a theater. My own father died when I was 7, was a smoker, owned a ham radio, and superficially resembled Dennis Quaid. I was choked up during nearly all the damn movie, but at the end, I was actually having a hard time watching the screen my eyes were so teary. I needed a handkerchief. **Up** , the opening scene. (me and the entire theater) **Toy Story 2** , the “When Somebody Loved Me” montage (me and the entire theater) **Toy Story 3** , when Andy drives away Of course this list would never be complete if nobody mentioned **Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Marley & Me, My Dog Skip** , and every other movie where animals are hurt or killed. That’s just a recipe for a tearjerker for me. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/57 "2011-06-18T00:25:13Z")
What, no love for _City Lights_? I have been trying to find that famous Charles Addams cartoon online, the one with Uncle Fester sitting in the middle of the audience for what is apparently, judging by the despondency of the rest of the viewers, a real tear-jerker, except he’s grinning like a Cheshire cat. It seems the Addams estate has asked that his cartoons be kept off the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/58 "2011-06-18T00:43:35Z")
Only movie that ever made me cry was [An American Tail](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090633/). Granted, I was ten. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_McAwful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@Larry\_McAwful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_McAwful)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/59 "2011-06-18T02:33:07Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > You do know that Clarence didn’t _really_ get his wings, right? > > I’m in the “easily manipulated” camp - if the film maker even thought “this could make someone emotional” at some point during a scene, I’ll probably tear a bit. Heh… Maybe I’m just thick right now, but: you’re joking, right? Man, I hope so. I’m running over the final scene, trying to suss out how I might have missed the clue that he didn’t! I mean, the bell was ringing like crazy on the Christmas tree, and… yeah, I’m just thick. I’ll have to use that one on other people when I feel like playing a mildly cruel trick, which is usually. Yeah, I’m in that same camp. There have been some episodes of the new _Dr. Who_ that I’ve cried at. And a number of other movies and TV shows, including (and this embarrasses me) the scene where the guy shoots at the little girl in _Crash_. I don’t know what it is about that scene. Gets me every time, even though I know what happens. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763/60 "2011-06-18T03:30:42Z")
Karma has bitten me in the ass with this one - I used to make fun of my mother for doing it, and now I do it too. A list of the more embarrassing recent ones: Wall-E Brokeback Mountain: cliché, of course, but I’d read the short story beforehand and was a sobbing wreck the entire second half of the movie. And lost. my. shit. when he smelled the shirt. The Office, when Jim proposed to Pam, and at the wedding I am such a sucker for weddings/proposals Julie & Julia: when Julia gets her book published The Black Swan: the climax at the end, of course (both times I watched it) Practically anything animated with a feel-good ending I guess it doesn’t take a lot, or even necessarily tragedy. If I connect with the characters or become involved in the story, all it take is strong emotion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-at-movies/585763.md?page=4)