# Non-sports movies that make guys weepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947 "2013-07-30T20:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/61 "2013-08-01T12:32:09Z")
I find K-Pax rather tear-jerking. Something about prot helping the others (bluebird bit) and the sad back story for Robert Porter. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/62 "2013-08-01T12:47:12Z")
At the theater watching The Color Purple I broke out in tear-like substance while the sisters were hand-clapping in the field at the beginning, and proceeded to squall like a baby throughout the film. It’s the only movie I’ve ever come out of feeling like I lost 5 pounds. And I’d read the book years before. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/63 "2013-08-01T13:35:32Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Maybe I should have caught on sooner, but it blew me away when the revealed that the men they had been showing interviews with during the series were the actual men portrayed. Not to be rude, but it took you until the last episode? I had it pegged that the old men were members of Easy Company, and probably named characters in the series, but I couldn’t tell who was who, except for CPT Winters, who I had figured out based on his responses to things. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/64 "2013-08-01T13:39:06Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Not to be rude, but it took you until the last episode? I had it pegged that the old men were members of Easy Company, and probably named characters in the series, but I couldn’t tell who was who, except for CPT Winters, who I had figured out based on his responses to things. Well, it was obvious they were members of Easy from the things they said. It was the ‘this is this guy, and this is this guy’ that hit me. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/65 "2013-08-01T13:42:19Z")
_Breaking the Waves_ _Lives of Others_ _Imagine_ ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/66 "2013-08-01T14:20:41Z")
Oh, and when Wall-E rebooted. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/67 "2013-08-05T07:27:15Z")
**Stand By Me** - during the final scenes when the boys return to town and the narrator tells what happened to each of them in the future; and the end scene when the narrator goes leaves his computer to go out with his son. **And the Band Played On** - the montage of AIDS-related victims with Elton John’s “The Last Song” playing before the end credits. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/68 "2013-08-05T13:53:52Z")
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/69 "2013-08-05T13:56:51Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I am in agreement with many of the aforementioned films, and would like to add Despicable Me, because it hit all my dad-of-daughters buttons. Yup, when Gru tells the story at the end. I’ve welled up at lots of movies but “Up” was the cryfest of all time. It’s been mentioned already but deserves special accolades as a movie that can really fire up the waterworks. The entire theatre was bawling. If you think about it, most of Pixar’s truly great films get at least a sniffle out of you - I guess The Incredibles doesn’t, it’s a different sort of movie. But Up makes you cry, and the Toy Story films, WALL-E, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo all make you at least a little sniffly. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/70 "2013-08-05T14:20:44Z")
_Les Miserables_, with Jean ValJean’s last song. I cried at the theatrical production, and cried at the movie. ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/71 "2013-08-07T00:47:33Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Well, it was obvious they were members of Easy from the things they said. It was the ‘this is this guy, and this is this guy’ that hit me. I knew the old Wild Bill Guarnere immediately. The actor playing him really nailed it. The part of BoB that got me was in the episode _Why We Fight_. When the patrol finds the work camp, and Frank Perconte runs back to report, MAJ Winters tells him to slow down and explain what they found. Perconte responds, “I don’t know. I don’t know…” The far away look in his eyes as he says it really gets to me for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/72 "2013-08-07T01:37:10Z")
I got a bit misty at Mozart’s burial in “Amadeus.” And, yeah, I got teary at the happy ending in “Brave.” (Okay, Steve Purcell. You can do movies. Now, more Sam & Max!) ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/73 "2013-08-07T01:49:46Z")
I saw _A Beautiful Mind_ in the suburbs. After the movie ended, I went to the men’s room and quite a few men were washing there faces to hide the tears. _Gran Torino_ too. ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/74 "2013-08-07T16:15:50Z")
70+ posts and nobody mentioned _ **Marley and Me** _. I’m a sap and will cry at a lot of things… but this had me utterly sobbing. I think if this movie does not make you cry you need to be placed under some kind of observation. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/75 "2013-08-07T16:45:54Z")
I am not a guy and he’d probably lie, but my dad cried his heart out at **Brokeback Mountain**. We’d gone to see it for our Christmas movie (a bunch of HEATHENS, I tells ya!) And also **Slingblade**. (Although the man can unfortunately NOT do imitations and loves to imitate Slingblade in public. It sounds funny, but be in an airport shuttle with him when he starts saying, 'I don’t guess I got no reason to keeyul nobody." ) You, your mom, and sister just try to act like you don’t know him. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/76 "2013-08-07T17:34:08Z")
> [@kirk1168](#): > > The part of BoB that got me was in the episode _Why We Fight_. When the patrol finds the work camp, and Frank Perconte runs back to report, MAJ Winters tells him to slow down and explain what they found. Perconte responds, “I don’t know. I don’t know…” The far away look in his eyes as he says it really gets to me for some reason. Not nearly as weepy as at the camp: Liebgott struggling to translate, the camp prisoner breaking down as he’s describing what happened to them, the guy who salutes Perconte. And it’s the sad kind of weepy. Unlike the extended interviews – particularly that one where Winters relates the story of the grandpa who told his grandson he wasn’t a hero during the war, but that he served in a company of heroes. That whole interview series seems designed for rapid dehydration. ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/77 "2013-08-07T20:38:56Z")
My husband cried when we watched _Homeward Bound_. I think it was then that I fell in love with him. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/78 "2013-08-07T20:44:42Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > People haven’t mentioned _Old Yeller_ yet? Second post. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/79 "2013-08-07T22:29:35Z")
My ex cries when watching Glory. I’m kind of surprised no one else mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/80 "2013-08-07T23:58:26Z")
One of the few times I ever saw my dad get teary-eyed was while he was watching _Frequency_. His dad hadn’t been gone very long when he was watching it, and now that my dad’s gone I can’t watch it anymore either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947.md?page=5)