# Saddest Movie Scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491 "2008-08-28T00:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/61 "2008-08-29T03:45:23Z")
The second time a bomb goes off in **Breakfast On Pluto** , the dancing scene, cuts me up. The ending of **The Butcher Boy**. The overpass scene in **American Splendor**. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/62 "2008-08-29T11:31:07Z")
The ending of _Fearless_ by Peter Weir, starring Jeff Bridges. From imdb : After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived. The ending of that movie just kills me : Max has been allergic to strawberries all his life but now thinks it can’t kill him, or maybe he just doesn’t care anymore. The way he lies on the floor and just starts sobbing uncontrollably for the first time in the movie : “Help me”. I get teared up just writing about it. ---
**Author:** ![Radegast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Radegast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radegast)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/63 "2008-08-29T12:00:27Z")
**Brian’s Song** THe scene in **Crusoe** where his dog dies. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/64 "2008-08-29T12:32:46Z")
The end of Castaway when he comes back to Kelly, only to find that she’s moved on. The scene where they hug in the rain makes me cry every time. The Plague Dogs. Holy crap. If that movie doesn’t make you bawl, then you’re not human. “Look, Snitter. It’s. . . our. . . island. . .” ☹☹☹ ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/65 "2008-09-07T14:22:08Z")
Highlander - The ‘montage’ scene where his wife eventually gets old and dies yet he doesn’t age (to the tune of Queen’s ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ playing). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/66 "2008-09-07T15:42:29Z")
The scene in **My Girl** after Culkin’s character dies and the main girl throws herself on his coffin at the funeral begging him to wake up. ---
**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/67 "2008-09-07T16:01:49Z")
The whole ending of “Big Fish”. ---
**Author:** ![4everkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/76d3ee/32.png) [@4everkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4everkid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/68 "2008-09-07T17:48:57Z")
The final scene of **Dancer In The Dark** left me literally bawling uncontrollably for about a half hour. I’m haunted still by it. My son, a Bjork fan, somehow convinced me, (NOT a Bjork fan) to watch this movie. It’s a musical of sorts, which we are neither fans of. But for this movie, with this character, it works. Once I got accustomed to the Bjorkiness, it turned out to be the saddest movie ever. This one’s guaranteed to turn the toughest tough guy into a weeping puddle of goo. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/69 "2008-09-07T18:04:09Z")
> [@A\_shameful\_cracka](#): > > The whole ending of “Big Fish”. sad? ---
**Author:** ![Fiona\_Greenlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@Fiona\_Greenlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiona_Greenlee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/70 "2008-09-07T18:13:48Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Many scenes in The Color Purple. I came in here to post this. The scene where Celie and Nettie are separated makes me cry. The ending when they reunite and Celie sees her long lost children is a half box of tissues cry. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/71 "2008-09-07T19:42:33Z")
Haven’t any of you people seen **Old Yeller**? ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/72 "2008-09-07T20:56:44Z")
An oldie but goodie - I’m 45 and have seen **Bambi** more times than I can count, but Bambi wandering in the woods in the snow calling for his mother has me bawling every single time.☹ ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/73 "2008-09-07T21:19:13Z")
The last time there was a thread like this, I mentioned Akira Kurosawa’s _Ikiru_. There’s just something about his cinematic technique that pulled on my cynical little heartstrings. ---
**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/74 "2008-09-07T21:37:56Z")
> [@drm](#): > > sad? Well, it made me cry. I did see it not too long after my father died. My girlfriend at the time said she knew that I was going to end up sobbing as we watched it, considering I had recently lost a father who I never really connected with or knew well. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/75 "2008-09-07T22:23:08Z")
Withnail reciting Hamlet’s speech to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the end of **Withnail & I**. Poor fucking bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/76 "2008-09-08T21:33:41Z")
The scene where the band plays outside the bandleader’s window in “Brassed Off”. Came out of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/77 "2008-09-09T20:01:51Z")
A recent one for me was Wall-E The part where you think he’s “dead” and Eve’s reaction to that was sad, but not enough to make me tear up. The part that got me was when she fixed him, but he wasn’t him anymore. He didn’t know who she was, and he didn’t have his quirky personality anymore. He was just a robot. That tore me right up. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/78 "2008-09-09T22:20:34Z")
Well I am one of the few who think **A.I.** is a brilliant movie and one reason is because how it plays with your emotions. When the mother leaves the robot boy in the woods it is extremely sad…yet, it isn’t, because after all he is a machine. And the emotions the mother is going through are also confusing, you are sad for her, yet you also want to say…stop it, it’s NOT A BOY! ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/79 "2008-09-10T02:36:38Z")
I will second the ending scene of **Dancer in the Dark**. I think it scarred me for life. For second place, though, I’d like to nominate the scene in **The Piano** where: Sam Neill cuts off Holly Hunter’s fingers. Pure evil. The ending of **Watership Down**. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491/80 "2008-09-10T03:17:14Z")
> [@Bambi's Father](#): > > Bambi, your mother can’t be with you, anymore. _cry_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-movie-scene/461491.md?page=5)