# Entertainments that are guaranteed to make you cry every time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548 "2010-05-15T15:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/61 "2010-05-18T06:00:00Z")
The end **The Wrath of Khan**. Every time, without fail. “Ship…out of danger?”=silent, soulful tears. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/62 "2010-05-18T06:11:05Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Films: > > **We Are Marshall** (several times through course of film) I second this one! (and I’m a girl). ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/63 "2010-05-18T06:22:44Z")
**Wrath of Khan** ending **LotR:RotK** ending **Grave of the Fireflies** the episode of **M_A_S_H_** where Winchester secretly buys X-mas presents for the Korean orphanage, and countless others Jurassic Bark in **Futurama** ending of **Beauty and the Beast** the episode of the anime **Inuyasha** where Kikyo dies again the episode of **Naruto** near the beginning where Zabuza dies the episode of **Rurouni Kenshin** where Anji watches his children and house burn to death the ending of **Howl’s Moving Castle** That’s just off the top of my head. I cry pretty easily. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/64 "2010-05-18T16:58:57Z")
A League of Their Own. Which is bad, 'cuz there’s no crying in baseball. Where do I turn in my Man Card? ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/65 "2010-05-18T17:28:14Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > \ > ending of **Beauty and the Beast** I always tear up when the Beast saves Belle from the wolves. Gettin’ a lump in my throat just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/66 "2010-05-18T17:52:10Z")
Just got to thinking - movie/TV-related themes and/or songs that choke me up just hearing them (don’t even have to be watching the movie at the time): [**Pan’s Labyrinth** lullaby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19bBGxf5k6k) [“John Dunbar Theme”, from **Dances With Wolves**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHvKviaeulg) [“Now We Are Free”, from **Gladiator**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CppQF_nwn8) ["Niobe’s Theme, from **Rome**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auIoqwMVx-g) [“May It Be”, from **Fellowship of the Ring**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkuV3z0iMnM) [“Calling All Angels”, from **Deadwood** , season two, episode 10 (“Advances, None Miraculous”)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkJDu0B-1U) [“Old Friend”, from **Deadwood** , season one, episode seven (“Bullock Returns to the Camp”)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Q_F-yjBRY) [“This Land”, from **The Lion King**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhMUvhIAPtY) [“You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!”, from **Peter Pan**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7F8cNF5lQ) [“Amazing Grace”, from **Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbv4HU7_cpg) [“We Have All the Time in the World”, from **On Her Majesty’s Secret Service**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy97lOwvECs) and about a thousand more. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/67 "2010-05-18T18:14:16Z")
Band of Brothers, Episode 9, “Why We Fight.” The scene where Liebgott (?) has to translate to the recently liberated concentration camp internees that they have to be locked back in the camp destroys me every time. Webster’s later speech yelling at the marching German prisoners (“Say hello to Ford and General fucking Motors”) also gets to me, but in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Greenlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@Fiona\_Greenlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Greenlee)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/68 "2010-05-18T18:25:45Z")
**The Color Purple** (film) starting when Shug reunites with her father and then Celie is finally reunited with her sister Nettie and her children that had been taken from her at birth. I’m getting teary eyed typing this. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/69 "2010-05-18T18:38:17Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Band of Brothers, Episode 9, “Why We Fight.” > > The scene where Liebgott (?) has to translate to the recently liberated concentration camp internees that they have to be locked back in the camp destroys me every time. Dude, you must be made of _stone_. I’ve been crying for minutes by that point – the part where Winters interviews the prisoner as translated by Liebgott, the opening of the boxcar, that one prisoner who salutes Perconte… oof. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/70 "2010-05-18T18:41:45Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Dude, you must be made of _stone_. I’ve been crying for minutes by that point – the part where Winters interviews the prisoner as translated by Liebgott, the opening of the boxcar, that one prisoner who salutes Perconte… oof. I’ve seen the episode at least 10 times. I can make it through to locking them back in now. The first couple of times - much before hand. ---
**Author:** ![jlasserton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@jlasserton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlasserton)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/71 "2010-05-18T19:10:47Z")
I saw the movie Dear John in the theater and it made me cry. Really any movie that deals with war always evokes some emotion in me. ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/72 "2010-05-19T22:06:50Z")
Y’all ever try to read _Charlotte’s Web_ to your kids? How the hell anyone can get through the last page is beyond me. Dylan’s _Simple Twist of Fate_. ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/73 "2010-05-20T05:20:37Z")
[Sarah McLachlan’s “Hold On”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccYFWcqBNS4) ---
**Author:** ![LittleGreenRosetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@LittleGreenRosetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LittleGreenRosetta)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/74 "2010-05-20T06:33:08Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > Y’all ever try to read _Charlotte’s Web_ to your kids? How the hell anyone can get through the last page is beyond me. One of the first things to come to my mind. There’s lots of songs, but Harry Chapin’s “Tangled Up Puppet” always does it. For movies: Homeward Bound Beaches Saving Private Ryan And the mother of all tearjerkers- Sophie’s Choice. The first time I saw it, it must have taken me at least ten minutes to compose myself before I could leave the theater. (And I already knew the ending) ---
**Author:** ![Seamack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Seamack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seamack)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/75 "2010-05-20T08:11:52Z")
**Home Alone** when the old snow shovel guy reunites with his family and turns to wave at Kevin who has just re-united with his family. SOB! ---
**Author:** ![cedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedman)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/76 "2010-05-20T13:57:52Z")
Star Trek II starting with, “Ship… out of danger?” peaking with, “I have been and always shall be your friend.” and ending with, “His was the most… human.” Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy - 2nd book. Arthur talking to Merlin (Hermit of the Green Chapel) about his friend Bedwyr. “He is the bravest friend and truest companion in all the world.” Not a movie or tv but it really happened… I didn’t get to meet my daughter until she was 15 years old and she got me a card that said, “I made a wish… and you came true.” I still have it and plan to be buried with it when I die. CedricR. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/77 "2010-05-20T14:07:42Z")
> [@cedman](#): > > Not a movie or tv but it really happened… > I didn’t get to meet my daughter until she was 15 years old and she got me a card that said, > > “I made a wish… and you came true.” > > I still have it and plan to be buried with it when I die. > CedricR. _sniffle_ ---
**Author:** ![alindallas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@alindallas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alindallas)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/78 "2010-05-21T13:00:27Z")
Gettysburg. God, what a lot of wonderful brave men fought and died. (Yes, both sides.) ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/79 "2010-05-21T14:49:40Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > The bit at the end of the Sixth Sense when the kid is telling his Mom what his (dead) Grandmother told him. > > Bawl my eyes out every time. I firmly believe that the entire movie, even the “reveal” concerning Bruce Willis, is a setup, so you’ll believe this kid and his ability, so when he delivers this one moment in the movie, you’ll BELIEVE it… Which is pretty darned brilliant - it’s too bad that Shaymalan’s later efforts were just “bait and switch” plots. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548/80 "2010-05-21T15:16:06Z")
Oh, and on-topic… Definitely “Up” The Notebook Big Fish (wow, Big Fish really messed me up when I saw it) In music - “Holes in the Floor of Heaven” (_One day shy of 8 years old, my grandma passed away…I was a broken-hearted little boy, blowing out that birthday cake…_) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entertainments-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry-every-time/539548.md?page=5)