Non-sports movies that make guys weepy

I find K-Pax rather tear-jerking. Something about prot helping the others (bluebird bit) and the sad back story for Robert Porter.

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.

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.

Breaking the Waves
Lives of Others
Imagine

Oh, and when Wall-E rebooted.

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.

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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.

Les Miserables, with Jean ValJean’s last song.

I cried at the theatrical production, and cried at the movie.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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.

My husband cried when we watched Homeward Bound. I think it was then that I fell in love with him.

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My ex cries when watching Glory. I’m kind of surprised no one else mentioned it.

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.