The following scenes have brought tears to my eyes:
Grave of the Fireflies : the opening scene and the “Home sweet Home” scene near the end.
Casablanca: The Marseillaise scene
It’s a Wonderful Life: the ending.
The latter two aren’t sad scenes of course.
Monologue by the poet at the end of Mindwalk. Sure the movie is dated but that monologue rings eternal.
Cats in the Craddle
Certain Bela Fleck tunes (believe it or not).
A few scenes from Parenthood
Sunday in the Park with George
-many songs from the first act (esp. Finishing the Hat
Moment in Bad News Bears when Walther Matthaw has his sudden realization and says “Now get out there and do the best you can”. Oh, bravo Walther, bravo.
The last chapter of that book that ends, “Well, I’m back.” Other fans of this story know what I’m talking about, and I’m sure the rest of you are a bit tired of hearing so much about it lately, so I’ll say no more on that.
Proginoskes X-ing himself in A Wind in the Door (sequel to A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle).
Imitation of Life (the 1959 one, not the 1934). It just makes me want to hug my mom and never let go.
Linus explaining the true meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown in the Peanuts holiday special. If anyone could have converted me to Christianity, it would have been Linus Van Pelt.
A couple times in “Pay it Forward”.
This one is kind of weird, but the scene in “The Ring” when
The horse jumps off the ferry boat and gets sucked into the propellors. Holy crap!!!
I was a wreck after that.
I have never shed a tear in my entire life.
But that Simpsons with Maggie’s pictures all over the sign so it says “Do it for her”, that gave me goosebumps.
I guess that’s the closest I can get.
Other things that give me goosebumps:
The song “And So It Goes,” sung a capella by Moxy Fruvous.
All of the really poignant scenes in Lord of the Rings.
The end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Most Enya songs.
Almost forgot, the children’s book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. I can’t read that aloud without breaking up, especially at the end.
Coincidentally I watched a movie on cable today that I hadn’t seen in years that instantly reminded me of this thread. And that movie is:
Lucas
Man that last scene, when he opens his locker and… and the jacket with the… and they all start…
I’m feeling a little veclempt (sp???), talk amongst yourselves.