# The one movie guaranteed to make the men cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214 "2005-07-06T00:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/81 "2005-07-07T01:49:20Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > Also, nobody (at least none of my kids) knows what “when you hit your knees” means anymore. Okay, thanks, I’m crying RIGHT NOW after reading that! I always do that, I open these threads thinking “this time, I’m not going to cry” and then I do anyway. Of course, I’m a big crybaby girl, but still. This thread was timed nicely. Just this evening, while we were watching an episode of The West Wing, Mr. Del apparently got something in his eye. It was the one: At the beginning of the second season, when white supremists shot the president, and we see a series of flashbacks to when the various characters started working on the campaign. Josh is waiting for a flight after learning his father died. Martin Sheen shows up to wait with him in the airport, even though he is supposed to be delivering his victory speech. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/82 "2005-07-07T01:49:33Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > No nominations for **Rudy** yet? DAMN YOU MOTO!! I was crusing through the entire thread and ALMOST got to the end so \*\*I/b] could be the one to mention rudy!! YOU HAVE STOLEN MY THUNDER, there can be no peace between us! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/83 "2005-07-07T01:50:39Z")
ALso, you have malipulated my coding after I posted, causing me to look foolish. Now we duel to the death!! ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/84 "2005-07-07T02:02:31Z")
**Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory** : when Charlie returns the gobstopper to Wonka, prompting Wonka to whisper, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” **Hoosiers** : Shooter’s (Dennis Hopper) reconcilliation with his son. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/85 "2005-07-07T02:33:09Z")
i don’t cry at sports movies. i do not watch sports or movies about sports it starts when juliette says “what’s here? a cup closed in my true love’s hand? poison i see hath been his timeless end…” by the time she gets to “oh, happy dagger! here is thy sheath” i have succumbed. tangently related, tony’s death in west side story i agree on the scene where forest is standing at jenny’s grave and talking to her. many, many more ---
**Author:** ![mza662](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mza662](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mza662)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/86 "2005-07-07T02:55:40Z")
I can’t think of many movies, most war movies evoke lots of emotion in me as being part of an ex-defence family and having friends in defence forces I can relate it to people I car about. One episode of Scrubs however, 3x14 My Screw Up, never fails. Talk about an emotional episode. To see a character you have grown to love go through something that bad makes you realise how attached you can get to tv characters 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/87 "2005-07-07T03:17:26Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > Did they ever make a movie out of “Where the Red Fern Grows”? > I sobbed like a little girl when I read that book. Of course, I _was_ a little girl, but still. Oh gods yes , and it’s every bit as big of a tear jerker . I watched it several years ago wih a friend and her big , strapping lumberjack-type hubby , and the three of us were blubbering in out popcorn . My dad cried in the Disney “Homeward Bound” , the remake of The Incredible Journey , when the old Golden Retriever falls into a hole and tells his friends to go on without him , then it shows the other 2 pets returning , and the little boy scanning the horizon , looking for his dog . _sniff_ The Golden comes hobbling over the hill , that we had a room full of sobbing adults . ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/88 "2005-07-07T03:17:39Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > In the movie sleepless in Seattle there’s a scene where Tom Hanks and this other guy are sitting with Tom’s real life wife. They start talking about some real guy flick and crying to mock her. It’s hilarious. > > What movie were they talking about? **An Affair to Remember**. The irony was that Sleepless in Seattle was loosely based on An Affair to Remember. Mr. Ruby’s Achilles heel was **A Star is Born** with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristopherson. Kristopherson’s character commits suicide in the movie and I don’t think Mr. Ruby has ever forgiven him for it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/89 "2005-07-07T04:02:48Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > **An Affair to Remember**. The irony was that Sleepless in Seattle was loosely based on An Affair to Remember. They may have mentioned _An Affair to Remember_, but I believe they were talking about _The Dirty Dozen_ in the scene **cosmosdan** is talking about. Remember when they were getting all weepy talking about James Brown throwing the grenades down those airholes? (Sigh. Yeah, I saw _Sleepless in Seattle_.) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/90 "2005-07-07T05:11:48Z")
Edward Scissorhands. I can’t believe I’m the first one to mention it. Come on, guys, admit you wept. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/91 "2005-07-07T05:31:54Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Edward Scissorhands. > > I can’t believe I’m the first one to mention it. Come on, guys, admit you wept. Certainly. I meant to mention that scene in _Edward Scissorhands_ when we see Edward, back in the attic of the mansion on the hill, making an ice sculpture of Kim dancing. But when I was submitting _The Champ_, something got in my eye. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/92 "2005-07-07T06:27:06Z")
Only time I ever saw my ex-husband cry was once at the theater, watching _The Lion King._ ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/93 "2005-07-07T06:43:47Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Also, though I guess it’s not technically a movie, the PBS _Frontline_ documentary **Ghosts of Rwanda** had me bawling for two hours straight. I didn’t bawl, but I did go pacing around the house asking “Why? _Why_?” every couple of seconds for two hours. Man, it was a distressing documentary. When _Hotel Rwanda_ came out, I thought they should have just put _Ghosts of Rwanda_ on the big screen instead. Admittedly, I boycotted _Hotel Rwanda_ for several reasons, so that’s probably not quite fair. The other _Frontline_ that I’ve had to pace out was the reproduction of an old (incomplete) British film that they broadcast this spring. It had been made quite literally upon WW2’s end, and it talked about all the death camps under the Germans. Unlike with today’s documentaries, this one showed the victims and the bodies every time they talked about them, so it was an hour of corpses. Just sick. I don’t really cry when seeing films, not out of toughness but because I go numb before I can reach the point where I’d cry. ---
**Author:** ![Pensandfeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Pensandfeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pensandfeathers)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/94 "2005-07-07T07:10:20Z")
**My Life**. I have only seen my brother cry over two movies - this is one of them. I was watching it on HBO a fews years back and he came in and joined me. It was his choice, I never said or did anything to make him watch it. By the end of the movie we were both blubbering idiots, and as he walks off into the kitchen he says, _“goddammit, why’d you make me watch that?”_ The other one was **Free Willy**. My dad took me to see it and made my brother go when it came out in theatres (I was 9, he was 11). I was sniffling through the entire last half of the movie, but my brother totally lost it when the kid threw that big soda bottle at Willy. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/95 "2005-07-07T07:34:26Z")
Lars von Trier’s _Dancer in the Dark_ will do me in every time. Not a “something in my eye” movie, that. More of a “The riot police seem to have unloaded a canister of pepper spray in my face when I wasn’t looking” thing. Sweet jesus. _Grave of Fireflies_ is good for a lump in the throat and blurry vision. _I Am Sam_, too. Ah, crap, I ain’t foolin’ anyone. I’m a weepy nancy-boy. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/96 "2005-07-07T07:46:52Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > They may have mentioned _An Affair to Remember_, but I believe they were talking about _The Dirty Dozen_ in the scene **cosmosdan** is talking about. Remember when they were getting all weepy talking about James Brown throwing the grenades down those airholes? > > (Sigh. Yeah, I saw _Sleepless in Seattle_.) Sniff sniff remember when Trini Lopez’s chute didn’t open? Waaahhh! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/97 "2005-07-07T07:50:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Good call. This has me in tears in the theater. > > There’s another thread going around with the same sort of thing, but I’ll throw in a bit from _Apollo 13_ here: > > After the explosion on space, when the crew of the ship are having to “slingshot” around the moon. There’s a scene with Marilyn Lovell (Kathleen Quinlan) sitting on the floor of her bedroom, leaning against her bed, listening to a NASA radio so that she can hear what’s going on on the ship. The crew loses radio contact when they are slingshotting, and all she can do it sit there, crying, powerless, when she hears the radio go to static, and has to face the possibility that she’s just heard her husband for the last time. > > Powerful scene. I get a little misty in the scene when Momma Lovell (played by Momma Howard) snaps out of her senility and says if they were able to get a washing machine in the air her Jimmy could land it. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/98 "2005-07-07T12:51:58Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Dude, save yourself some more misery and skip _Vanishing Point_. They murdered four Challengers making it. Not to mention **Christine** , where they destroyed 13 (or 16, depending on the source) 1958 Plymouths. Talk about sad… ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/99 "2005-07-07T13:06:40Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > **An Affair to Remember**. The irony was that Sleepless in Seattle was loosely based on An Affair to Remember. I’m afraid thats not what I was talking about. The charecter played by Hanks’ wife get’s all weepy when talking about that movie earlier in the scene. Later Hanks and the other actor start talking about some _macho guy flick_ and mock her by weeping. What movie were they talking about when they mocked her? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214/100 "2005-07-07T13:10:30Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > They may have mentioned _An Affair to Remember_, but I believe they were talking about _The Dirty Dozen_ in the scene **cosmosdan** is talking about. Remember when they were getting all weepy talking about James Brown throwing the grenades down those airholes? > > (Sigh. Yeah, I saw _Sleepless in Seattle_.) AHHHHH I believe you’re right. A bunch of the guys in TDD got killed in that scene. Thanks. I thought Sleepless in Seattle was an okay movie. Thats my favorite scene. Very funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-movie-guaranteed-to-make-the-men-cry/311214.md?page=6)