Movie/books scenes that tear you up every time.

[Superdude]

@wendelenn

“Ladies and gentlemen, may I present our Governor. . .The Most Honorable Gertrude Lang.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng3l4vEN3Dk

Good one. That whole scene. Dreyfus really sells the hell outta that.

[velomont]

For me it’s the movie Cousins. Much of it does it to me, particularly scenes with Ted Danson and Isabella Rosellini, but the end, where they sail off together with their kids just leaves me sobbing.

A big part of it is Danson’s character’s behaviour as a father. Mine was a hard-ass who treated me and my siblings as if, without discipline, we would all become bank robbers or terrorists.

[xizor]

The movie “Hachi”, where the dog meets Richard Gere at the train station every day. You can guess the ending and still cry when it happens.

[JHBoom]

I had a few emotional moments in the theater watching Inside Out with my wife & daughter, but I very nearly lost it completely during Bing Bong’s final moments.
I saw some of Toy Story 3 for the first time at a Christmas party several years ago; the host put it on for the kids to watch. I was sitting with my daughter, and had to fight tears back when they joined hands on the conveyor belt and resigned themselves to their coming fate.
When Saving Private Ryan came out, I was still on active duty in the Marines. Our squadron leadership rented a local theater for a private showing of the movie for us, so it was just a couple hundred jarheads in the theater. Between the scenes of the aftermath of the initial push up the beach, and the notification scene, I think the wet eyes outnumbered the dry eyes.
Taking Chance.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Rick_Kitchen

The Ending of AI, Artificial Intelligence, when Teddy is the only thing still “alive”, sitting patiently next to David for eternity. Sob.

Yes! Having climbed up on the bed to be with him.

Some great ones already mentioned, favorites of mine including Boromir’s last moments with Aragorn, Bingbong sacrificing himself, and the young Australian couple and their baby in On the Beach.

I’ll add John Murdock’s emergence into the blinding sunlight at the end of Dark City, and this song from Toy Story 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhbTsKsros

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@Elendil_s_Heir

<snip>…and this song from Toy Story 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhbTsKsros

Oh, thanks loads, EH, nothing like bawling into your Walmart knock-off Rice Krispies first thing in the morning. The only thing about that sequence that would have made me cry harder would have been IF RANDY NEWMAN HAD SUNG IT HIMSELF!

Jessie: Just…go.
How am I supposed to type when the goddam keyboard is soaked?

[Miller]

@snfaulkner

What about games? I cried when Floyd the robot gave his life for me in Planetfall.

I don’t have any good example from games, off the top of my head… but this one about video games gets me every time.

Also, this one.

[Dale_Sams]

@velomont

For me it’s the movie Cousins. Much of it does it to me, particularly scenes with Ted Danson and Isabella Rosellini, but the end, where they sail off together with their kids just leaves me sobbing.

A big part of it is Danson’s character’s behaviour as a father. Mine was a hard-ass who treated me and my siblings as if, without discipline, we would all become bank robbers or terrorists.

Fantastic choice. And Badalamenti’s score really sells it.

[wendelenn]

Can we count stage musicals? I haven’t even seen the show, but It’s Quiet Uptown (Between Hamilton & his wife Eliza after their son is killed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOAC5-Jcgyc

And not to bring too much politics into the thread, but lately this has been making me said because. . . one last time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf3fnYu5KK0

[gkster]

In 1776, the song “Mama Look Sharp” is heartbreaking to me–just thinking about it starts me off.

I’ve avoided reading Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons for years because the whole situation with Sal and her mother is such a tearjerker.

And ditto to Sophie’s Choice, Dumbo, A Little Princess, Where the Red Fern Grows.

[SCAdian]

Les Miserables (play and movie - haven’t read the book) – the deaths of Eponine and Valjean.

[Tinker_Grey]

Tevye: [singing] Little bird… Little Chaveleh. I don’t understand what’s happening today. Everything is all a blur… All I can see is a happy child, the sweet little bird you were, Chaveleh, Chaveleh… Little bird, little Chaveleh, you were always such a pretty little thing, everybody’s favorite child… Gentle and kind and affectionate, what a sweet little bird you were, Chaveleh, Chaveleh…

[Gray_Ghost]

@Miller

I don’t have any good example from games, off the top of my head… but this one about video games gets me every time.

Also, this one.

Damn you, Miller. Great finds.

As already mentioned, Les Miz gets me to crank the waterworks whenever I see it or hear the soundtrack. Old Yeller should really be mentioned here too. Cried my eyes out when I saw it as a kid, and I don’t have the heart to see it again.

The first thing I thought of, reading the thread, not that it’s the most moving for me but whatever, was “Gordy’s gone, man.” Mostly because, AFAIK and from what I’ve read from, e.g., Durant’s autobiography, it pretty much happened like that.

[Gray_Ghost]

Since I think I’m past the edit, I’ll add here, the words of Lawrence Oates, (apocryphal or not), "I am just going outside, and may be some time."

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Gray_Ghost

Since I think I’m past the edit, I’ll add here, the words of Lawrence Oates, (apocryphal or not), "I am just going outside, and may be some time."

Is that a “movie/books scene”?

[Annie-Xmas]

To Kill a Mockingbird, when Scout is standing on Boo Radley’s porch:

Daylight…in my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephanie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over her azaleas. It was summertime, and two children scampered down the sidewalk toward a man approaching in the distance. The man waved, and the children raced each other to him.

It was still summertime, and the children came closer. A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting a strange little drama of their own invention.

It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Duvoaw’a. The boy helped his sister to her feet, and they made their home Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day’s woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive.

Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog.

Summer, and he watched his children’s heat break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him.

It’s the progression from “the children” to “his children” to “Boo’s children” that gets me every time.

[Baker]

@gkster

In 1776, the song “Mama Look Sharp” is heartbreaking to me–just thinking about it starts me off.

Oh damn, I’d forgotten that one, I don’t cry but I do get really glum.

I had a many-greats grandfather who fought in the Revolutionary War and I think of how one little bullet could have changed things down the generations.

[Annie-Xmas]

Gone With the Wind sums up Rhett and Scarlett’s honeymoon:

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so hard and so bitter