In the original Brian’s Song, with James Cann playing Brian Piccolo. The scene in the locker room. Blubbbbbbb.
When Bambi’s mom gets shot.
ETA: Bang the Drum Slowly
Steel Magnolias
Whenever it’s on TV (which is A LOT)- I always cry at the scene where Sally Field breaks down at the funeral.
I cry each time like I’m seeing for the first.
My husband mocks me.
Sorry about that - I think it is the little boy that kills me. He appears to be really upset. I don’t know how they got the depth of emotion from him but it is very effective.
Beaches and Fried Green Tomatoes. I wont watch either of them again - great films but I dont like to cry!
Debra Winger was on The View a few weeks ago and they showed that scene. It IS that little boy. I’ve never seen such authentic acting from such a little kid.
Huckleberry Fox. He works in agriculture now according to IMDB.
I try to repress all my emotions to the extent possible, but…
OK, I cried a little at WALL-E.
I know there is a wide range of opinions on It’s a Wonderful Life around here, but the scene where George is in the bar, just before he goes to jump off the bridge, always kills me.
Several times, Ken Burns’ The Civil War got to me. And, almost any high-quality documentary or feature film about World War II makes me choke up. You know that scene in Saving Private Ryan where Tom Hanks’ character says, “I wonder if I’ll ever see my wife, and if I’ll ever be able to tell her about days like today”? I’m getting a little choked up just remembering it. I’m not sure why, but stories about WWII, more than other wars, seem to really get to me. I even cried a couple weeks ago over a History Detectives episode where they were talking about the horrific loses sustained by bomber crews.
Anyway, I’m going to be over here repressing my emotions now.
Arrg I weep and wail at countless movies, but I too can’t stand Terms of Endearment. I’m crying 15 minutes into the thing. Which reminds me – the BEGINNING of It’s a Wonderful Life. When you’ve seen it 12 million times, it’s like getting hit with the ending right at the get-go, Zuzu praying, “please God, help my Daddy …” I’m getting teary just writing this!
The one I came to mention was near the end of Steel Magnolias where Julia Roberts collapses in the kitchen prior to her final coma. The husband comes home to the stove boiling over and the poor little son bawling like he’s been crying for hours for his mama who will never, ever, wake up!! And she’s laying there with the phone in her hand, trying to call for help for her poor baby… God. [Kalhoun]KILL ME NOW [/Kalhoun]
I’ll be over here sniveling.
Without fail:
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
Schindler’s List
the last scene in Brokeback Mountain when Ennis opens the closet door and the shirts are reversed, with Jack’s shirt inside Ennis’ shirt, as if it’s being protected.
They were doing this just off camera.
I believe this is the best executed scene in the entire trilogy.
-FrL-
I am a suck, and go to pieces over movies.
Shadowlands
RoTK, of course. When Frodo leaves and when everyone bows to the hobbits.
Pan’s Labyrinth, at the end.
Probably hundreds of others. Those are the first ones to come to mind. I also can’t watch anything as scary or scarier than The X-Files without cowering for days.
Gah- this one too- for sure!
The end of Big Fish.
I saw a movie called All That Jazz a few times a few years ago. It has a similar fantasy-reconciliation-death type ending that had the same kind of effect on me. (Though IIRC in All That Jazz the reconciliation was pure fantasy while in Big Fish there was truth to it. IIRC.)
Reconciliation in general just… gets me. I don’t know why.
-FrL-
Oh here’s a good one that shows you what a weepie I am: Mulan!
At the end, where the Emperor thanks her for saving China, and everyone in the enormous square bows to her. And just when you’re over that, she goes home and tiptoes in rather ashamed to greet her father, and HE falls to his knees, hugging her, telling her, “The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.” Boo HOOOO!
Also, A Little Princess
A beautiful, sad, and uplifting movie!
Holes, when (I’ll spoiler it even though it’s a five year old flick)
Zero and his Mother re-unite.
Miracle on 34th Street starring Edmund Gwenn (there is NO other version!), when the little Dutch girl meets her Sinter Klaas. The hell that little girl went through before getting that one moment of joy … wait a sec, there’s something in my eye.
Ditto for Toy Story 2, Bambi, Brian’s Song, and even Wall-E, once right near the end.
In Terms of Endearment, the scene that always makes me cry is when Aurora and Flip are in Emma’s room and they realize that she has passed in her sleep. Aurora’s reaction to her daughter being gone is just heart wrenching.
The Color Purple is the movie that turns on the water works every. single. time.
2 scenes: When Shug walks from the juke joint to the chapel singing “God is Trying to Tell You Somethin’” with the choir, and the ending when Nettie and Celie are reunited and Celie meets her children. Just thinking about it right now is making me misty.
Except she isn’t asleep. Emma is laying on the bed, turns her head to look at Flap (who’s asleep sitting in the chair) and Aurora and then she just…dies. Just like that - eyes open and everything. It is just a sort of mundane, everyday happening that makes it so hard to watch.
Okay, I’m probably going to get stoned to death for saying this, but:
I got quite bored watching the Iron Giant and turned it off about half way through. Clearly the ending is quite moving as so many people are mentioning it, would someone please explain to me what happens in the latter half of the film or point me to a good synopsis? I don’t really want to rent it out again, particularly.