I cried when I saw the death scene in “The Champ” (the one with Ricky Schroeder…was that a TV movie? I was young then), at Dumbo,and Ghost.
Say, does anybody remember a Christmas program called “Nestor, the long eared Donkey”? It was about a donkey born with really long ears, the other donkeys make fun of him, and he gets chosen to ride Mary into Bethlehem so she can give birth to Jesus. I cried SO hard when I saw that! I haven’t seen it aired since…I believe it aired in the late 70s, maybe early 80s. Anyone?
MaryAnn
Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck!
Add me to the “Truly, Madly, Deeply” crowd. not so much crying, although I did get emotional, just really dug the film. Beats “Ghost” to hell and back.
Her reaction when she first sees him is so incredible, and so believable. And for some reason I just really empathized with her… what a (seeming) dream come true, to have the one you lost through death come back to you in touchable flesh…
The haven’t played Nestor the Long eared donkey or The Little Drummer boy ( I think they are one in the same) since the Politically Correct Mafia said that the Arabs were offended because of a hand cutting off scene of a theif. Pardon me if I am wrong, but isn’t that the punishment for stealing in Arabia and therabouts? It hasn’t been on probably since mid 80’s.
FTR - The flick that made me cry in the show was Somewhere In Time. Christopher Reeves giving up on life to go to heaven to be with Dr. Quinn Medicine Chick…it was too much for this 12 year old to bear.
Two classics, both from the 40s–Now Voyager and Brief Encounter. I start to tear up the minute the theme music starts.
Also, the final reels of Dark Victory and Intolerance–I don’t want to give away the ending of the latter, but if you don’t cry at the finale of the Babylonian sequence, you’re made of stone.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Brian’s Song
It’s a wonderful life
The fighting O’Sullivan’s - this is a WW2 movie in which 5 brothers get killed on a navy ship, at the end a navy guy delivers the news to the family and tells them all 5 are dead. It’s one of the sadest scenes I’ve ever seen.
Shirley, I saw both “Nestor” and “The Little Drummer Boy” aired repeatedly on the Family Channel not only last Xmas, but as recently as last month. They’re also available on video.
I was crying so hard while watching Radio Flyer that I was barking when I exhaled.
Most of the movies mentioned here made me cry. But then, I still get choked up watching Bambi. And due to my daughters fixation on it, I’ve seen it probably close to 40 times.
My sister (about 2 years younger) was 10 when in 1962 she saw the movie * Gigot * with Jackie Gleason as a simple-minded Parisian mute, being friends with a prostitute’s child. Gleason himself wrote the story. My sister said Gigot died at the end. I probably would have broken down on the spot.
Deep Impact really unhinged me. Saving Private Ryan not only made me cry, it made Mr. Rilch and two of his friends cry.
I cried at Truly Madly Deeply, too: the scene in the psychiatrist’s office, and the ending.
I didn’t expect to cry at Mr. Holland’s Opus; I thought it would be corny and predictable, but it kept blindsiding me.
Worked at Universal Studios Hollywood (the theme park) and was subjected to many of their films on video. Don’t think there was one time when Babe didn’t make me cry.
Much as I love Titanic, it didn’t evoke one tear. And why is it that I didn’t cry at Free Willy, but I do tear up when Homer says “Jump, Free Willy! Jump with all your miiiiiiiiiiiiight!”
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I hate to say it but I get all choked up with the Incredible Journey everytime! (the recent one with the voices of Don Ameche, Sally Field, and Michael J Fox voicing the animals.) The scene where Shadow and the boy see each other just tears me up and I am 25! My girlfriend thinks its cute and occasionally spring it on me. I can’t help but cry because it remind me of my dog and me as a kid.
The end scene with the kid and the mother in the Sixth Sense made me tear up too.
Philadelphia really really hurt me deeply and I was sobbing at the end.
Platoon did also, specially when William Dafoe died and his buddies could see him. I cried hard after that scene
Shane always gets to me. I just know he died on the horse and I dare any western fan not to cry at the end.
I choked up watching this TV movie called “The Electric Grandmother” and still remember crying so much that it made my throat hurt
Oh and to agree with Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle…when Jim Brown bought it in the Dirty Dozen I got all choked up (heheh)
and hopefully, if they follow the story to the letter. I am betting that The Green Mile coming out in November will be a real tearjerker. The story made me cry.
[ul][li]Saving Private Ryan - the final scene, when Ryan as an old man is talking to Capt. Miller’s gravestone.[/li]A Few Good Men - Also the last scene, from the verdict being read to where Dawson salutes Caffey.[/ul]
Guess I didn’t want to admit that I’ve seen “Babe” about 15 times now, and 15 times it’s made me cry. As for “Titanic,” well, I’ve seen that one a few times too, and I never fail to just lose it completely at the scene where that Irish steerage mom is tucking her children into bed and telling them a story as the ship is sinking. Jiminy, I’m tearing up just thinking about it now. I didn’t much care for the character of Rose…until she started swimming for that dead guy and blowing that whistle. The look of utter determination on her face was incredible.
Archie Bunker sobbing at the end of the “Mike & Gloria Leave for California” episode of “All in the Family.”
Radar informing the operating room that Henry Blake’s plane had been shot down on “MASH.” Trivia tidbit: the cast did not know that Radar was going to say this so their dumbfounded expressions were somewhat genuine.
I’m an odd sort of guy, in that I cry at very odd times, and often do, in films and other circumstances. Heck, I was in tears the other day at the car dealer getting my oil changed, when I saw a poster promoting the use of child safety seats. I had the pictures of cute little kids that had died in car accidents because they hadn’t been in safety seats, with quotes from thier parents for the excuses why they weren’t in the seats. I wept unashamedly.
My biggest tear jerker film is a relative unknown. I think its called “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas” or somthing to that effect. It stars Jimmy Stewart, and was basically an hour-long commercial for the Mormon Church, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Its the story of a poor widower who lives alone, and is all by himself on Christmas. A passing groups of carolers stop by the front of his apartment, and he is transported into all kinds of “flashbacks” and fantasies about his life. One of them is when he is stareing at a nativity scene in the front of the store, and he is suddenly standing with the shepherds and wisemen before the baby Jesus in the stable. He walks up to the manger, and thanks the Christchild for helping him out during the tough times after his wife died. The movie ends with a little girl from the Christmas carolers returning to find a mitten she’s left behind, and Mr. Krueger is invited to join them.
My wife and I had been going through some particularly tough times early in our marriage, and we were watching this movie in the wee hours of the morning in the weeks before Christmas, and the two of us just sobbed together.
Its silly, but I tear up now just thinking about it.
Some of these stories are truly beautiful. But have you guys considered NOT giving away the best parts to the films you mention? It’s good I’ve seen Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, My Girl, and Titanic. Otheriwse, I’d be upset that you told me what happens.
