# The Saddest Movie Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515 "2002-12-23T10:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Giselle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Giselle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giselle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/61 "2002-12-26T03:26:23Z")
My tenth-grade history teacher made us watch _Schindler’s List_ last year, and the entire thing was just so unbelievably sad. Especially the little girl in the red coat . . . Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/62 "2002-12-26T04:45:43Z")
I haven’t read this thread as I don’t want to be bummed out for the rest of the night, but the first movie that came to mind, and always comes to mind that just \*ruined me \* was \*Somewhere in Time \*. I was \*devastated \* by the ending. When Christopher Reeves character dies from basically a broken heart . Yeah, sure he meets up with Jane Seymour/Dr. Quinn in heaven, but no woman or man already dead is worth dying for. I was 11 or 12. I can’t watch it to this day. ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/63 "2002-12-26T05:11:58Z")
“I am darn curious about Grave of the Fireflies now and will rent it in due time” Well it’s one of the greatest films I have ever seen and gets my vote ,too, for the saddest. Roger Ebert put it on his Great Movies list and here is his review: [http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/gravefireflies.html](http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/gravefireflies.html) BTW if you do rent it try to get a subtitled version if possible. And in case you want to buy the DVD make sure you buy the new special edition with the extra disk rather than the older version which is still around at more or less the same price. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/64 "2002-12-26T05:42:36Z")
Ok, now that I’ve braved the bummed out possibilities, I’ve read this thread. I really want to see \*Grave of the Fireflies now. \* And I mean this straightforward, thanks for the spoiler on it, making it that much easier to emotionally handle it. Ebert’s write up on it says that there is a book…I am assuming only in japanese? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/65 "2002-12-26T08:50:36Z")
Yet another vote for **Old Yeller**. Brings me to tears every time. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/66 "2002-12-26T13:25:31Z")
Saddest movie of all time: **Dumbo** The scene with Mrs. Jumbo swinging Dumbo in her trunk and singing “Baby Mine” makes me :😭: ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/67 "2002-12-26T13:30:20Z")
Oh gosh how could I have forgotten **The Green Mile**? I read the book (again) right before seeing the movie in the theater; I started crying as soon as the opening credits began rolling. I wonder if I was PMSing that day. ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/68 "2002-12-27T01:19:30Z")
**Ethan Frome** (Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette). ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/69 "2002-12-27T01:59:01Z")
Grave of the Fireflies is animated? I don’t understand how an animated film can be sad. Still, I want to rent it. ---
**Author:** ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/70 "2002-12-29T06:40:57Z")
There’s a scene in the 1987(I believe) version of ‘Made in Heaven’ with Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis that breaks me. Timothy Hutton is sitting at a table, looking into a mirror and drinking. He’s on the verge of losing his soul mate, and doesn’t know it. That moment, when he’s just drowning in despair-- I just completely lose it. Ha! I’m tearing up just writing about it. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/71 "2002-12-29T07:01:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*A.I. I cried like a baby several times. \*\* Finally somebody mentioned this movie! Good god, I was crying so hard when his mom finally died for the last time, and he was laying in bed next to her holding her hand Sniff :(☹ -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/72 "2002-12-29T07:19:36Z")
I can’t believe we made it almost to the end of page 2 without anyone mentioning **Midnight Cowboy**. I can’t think of a sadder, more depressing movie. ---
**Author:** ![Tblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tblue)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/73 "2002-12-29T07:39:29Z")
It annoys me sometimes, that I get teary eyed more often with animated films than any oher type! Dumbo - check. The Iron Giant - check. Watership Down made me howl as a child, I remember that, and scarcely remember the movie! And I’m a sodding animator! I really should know better than to be suckered in by those pencil drawn heartstrings. :rolleyes: Real movie? I found Amilie depressed me for a good half hour afterwards - I felt so miserable! (it reminded me of my then loneliness) ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/74 "2002-12-29T07:39:38Z")
And how could I have forgotten **Ordinary People**? ---
**Author:** ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/75 "2002-12-29T07:42:18Z")
Oh, well…talking children’s movies? Charlotte’s Web. worthy of a 7 Kleenex rating. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/76 "2002-12-29T08:15:37Z")
_Little Nemo in Slumberland_. Saddest piece of shit I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/77 "2002-12-29T11:28:25Z")
**Twelve Monkeys** Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/78 "2002-12-29T18:57:21Z")
I cried harder over “Testament” than any other movie I can ever remember seeing. I’ve never been tempted to watch it again, though it was very well done. I’ll also agree re “Grave of the Fireflies.” Saw it on TV. My SO came home to find me sobbing in the bedroom. I saw “Threads” not long after I saw “Testament.” (That was the year of the nuclear holocaust movies, I think.) Threads was disturbing more than tear-inducing to me. I saw it on TBS. In what I considered an inspired piece of programming, they followed it with “Harvey” (the Jimmy Stewart giant white rabbit movie). I stayed up late watching it just so I wouldn’t have to go to sleep with “Threads” still in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/79 "2002-12-29T19:09:04Z")
**Brian’s Song** The original, not the pointless remake. Man, that’s some good cryin’ ---
**Author:** ![LoN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515/80 "2002-12-29T19:54:21Z")
I saw _Requiem for a Dream_ reduce a roomful of cynical college kids to tears. I heard one say he had to talk a cold shower just to get the feel off. I second that-- near the end of the movie, i felt as if someone were beating me with a stick. Still a good movie, though. And i’m with everyone else who said _Grave of the Fireflies._ _Barefoot Gen of Hiroshima_ is another movie about a similar subject which can induce similar reactions… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-saddest-movie-ever/144515.md?page=5)