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I must admit to not relating to the outpouring of admiration for the “When She Loved Me” montage from Toy Story 2. I find it gets mentioned a lot but it simply does not register for me. Maybe it’s a chick thing?
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I’m a guy and that always makes me cry. But then, I cry very easily at movies. Hacky movies that I’m not particularly enjoying will sometimes make me cry. I’m easily manipulated I guess.
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Boys on the Side just about wrecked me. The scene where she taps out “Close to You” on the piano when she first received it was bad enough. But when they went around the room when whatsherface was dying, and then they get back to where she was and it was just an empty wheelchair…keeee-rist, was that heart-wrenching.
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OMG, that scene is a killer. I love Whoopi’s little warbling voice “I live..my life… to be… with you” gahhh.
I have too many movies that make me cry to make a list. I’m a serious crybaby.
Regarding the scene I mentioned from Schindler’s List, the last scene when Schindler and his wife are leaving because the Russian are approaching.
Obviously the whole movie could be called ‘sad’, but that’s almost an insult. Most of it is shockingly, numbingly difficult to endure. Not merely ‘sad’. But that last scene, because its essentially what should be the happiest moment in the whole film, with the war over and all Schindler’s Jews alive. But rather than being joyous at what he’s accomplished, the way Liam Neeson instead utterly breaks down over the so many he didn’t (i.e. couldn’t) save. Asking himself why he didn’t sell his car, that he could’ve saved 10 more with the bribe money. That combined with the Jewish people’s simultaneous and undeniable outpouring of love to him for what he did do.
Plus, to top it all off, after he leaves the feeling of “What do we do now?” from the Jewish survivors left standing there. Pretty uniquely devastating scene.
This will probably seem like it’s completely out of left field, but I cried at the end of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. It was the truly tragic nature of the man that just left me feeling empty and sorrowful.
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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.
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YOU BASTARD! 
The Music Man
The first time I saw this movie, my mother and I got on a bus to go down town. We had dinner at a Chinese restaurant (the first time I ate Chinese food) and saw The Music Man at the Orpheum Theater. After the movie, we took the bus back to our neighborhood, and got ice cream. This was the first time I ate pistachio. It sounded so exotic. We walked home while we ate our ice cream.
I remember this night like it was yesterday. It was forty six years ago. For those of you that have seen the movie, Ronnie Howard and I are the same age…
Mom passed away eight years ago. I miss her every day. I watch this movie every time it is on, and often drink too much wine while watching.
Penny Seranade gets me every time.
The 1953 version of Titanic ( Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb )
And thanks, Caprese, for putting this song in my head:
Old Yeller…come back Yeller… best doggone dog in the West
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Heresy! Heresy, I say! OK, spoilered… This is the one scene in a movie where if you don’t cry, you are not a Real Man.
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<Channeling Bluebottle>“You rotten swine you!”</end channel> Thanks Scissorjack… sitting here in the office sniveling at my computer. 
so yes, n+1-thing that scene.
Also agree on Boromir: “I would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king”. blub
I lose it every time Patty Duke as Helen Keller has her “waa-waa” moment at the end of The Miracle Worker. Duke and Bancroft totally nailed that scene.
Of course, I also cried when Smurfette’s mouse died. Probably still would, if I saw that episode again. I’m kind of soft that way. When my 7th grade English teacher showed us Where the Red Fern Grows half the class brought in extra tissues just for me.
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The wife cries easily at movies. The two strongest examples, though, since we watch them fairly regularly and they can bring a tear even to my jaded eye is the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life (of course) and the part in *Casablanca * where they sing the Marseillaise against the Germans in Rick’s.
Another one the wife always cries at is Tom Hanks’ death in Saving Private Ryan. She finds that incredibly moving. I think because it’s all wrapped up in his being just a high-school English teacher who only wants to go home to his wife. Thailand having largely sat out the war as a nominal Japanese ally, it really brings home to her, in ways most Thais simply do not understand (her nephew is a big Nazi fan, because they had spiffy uniforms), the true sacrifices that went with that war.
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Tom Hanks character in that movie is super-sympathetic.
Someone already mentioned Miracle on 34th Street - many parts of that movie make me misty.
However, has no one mentioned Philadelphia in 3 pages? Did I miss it? I know I’m not the only one who crys like a little baby at the end when the movie montage of his life is playing - when I saw it in theatre there were people WAILING. I can’t imagine that no one does that anymore when they see it.
psst Post #118
I’ve misted a couple times, but no outright tears, even in Grave Of The Fireflies. But then I have issues crying with people around. However, when I read Where The Red Fern Grows and got near the end, I remember I threw the book across the room and vowed to never, ever read another word of it. No crying, but much anger. Can that count?
The reunion scene at the end of The Color Purple gets me every time. And often, the scene two scenes where the singer is particularly kind to Whoopie (in the bed, and singing to her at the party), and the scene where the singer brings a crowd of singing people to her Dad’s church to reconcile will get me.
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I’ve misted a couple times, but no outright tears, even in Grave Of The Fireflies. But then I have issues crying with people around.
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I didn’t cry after watching GOFF, but I did feel pretty emotionally numb afterwards.
Probably the first to mention the Ryan O’Neal movie Barry Lyndon. Saw it with my husband.
It’s the funeral procession for the little boy, the way they cut to it just after the deathbed scene. And his coffin is being drawn forward on the little goat-drawn cart he used to love to drive. Music swells. I turned and put my face on my husband’s should and suddenly started bawling. Didn’t see my reaction coming at all!
I know Tle Lion King came out 14 years ago, but how about the scene at the end when Rafiki holds up Simba’s newborn cub (while Sir Elton sings “The Circle of Life”)? I took my young daughters to see it & bawled out loud, then looked down to see my own two young cubs bawling, as well. My younger cub has a cub of her own (10 days old today), I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
Love, Phil
I’m surprised nobody else has mentioned it but, It’s a Wonderful Life gets me every time. The final few minutes, when Mary and Uncle Billy come in with the money…“All she had to say was George is in trouble” through Harry’s toast “To my brother George, the richest man in Bedford Falls” just have me sobbing.
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Pixar movies can get ya, but the worst for me is Monsters, Inc. Perhaps it’s because I’m a big shaggy beast myself, but, “Kitty!” just wrecks me.
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Yup, that’s mine.
How they knew, before my daughter was even born, the exact tone of voice she’d use to say “Daddy!” when I come home from work, and how they got a voice-over actress to replicate it perfectly for film, I don’t know. But I’m convinced they did it just to rip my heart out.
Even Boo grew up someday.
It’s been mentioned several times, photopat! 
Oh, and I don’t cry at the end of Mulan because I have daddy issues … I just miss my (deceased) dad, I guess. I know he was proud of me.
Chiming in on The Sixth Sense … I think one of the reasons that movie is so good is the portrayal of the mother. I forget her name, but the actress (I believe she’s Australian?) who plays her is absolutely marvelous. Her relationship with the son is the heart of that movie and I identified with her every minute of the way. And then, the end, with the mention of her own mother … gah! Like many here, I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
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Chiming in on The Sixth Sense … I think one of the reasons that movie is so good is the portrayal of the mother. I forget her name, but the actress (I believe she’s Australian?) who plays her is absolutely marvelous.
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Toni Collette. And she is wonderful…she does the whole spectrum of entertainment: comedy, drama, dramedy, musical…she’s done roles as diverse as the mother in Sixth Sense, Muriel in Muriel’s Wedding, Carla in Connie & Carla, the mother in Little Miss Sunshine, Mandy in Velvet Goldmine, Fiona in About A Boy and Rose in In Her Shoes.