I always burst into floods at the end of Cool Runnings.
Romeo and Juliet, and A Beautiful Mind have also seen a few kleenex!
Lilo & Stitch makes me cry in several places, especially this scene:
Stitch takes his copy of The Ugly Duckling out to a clearing in the forest, looks up at the sky and calls out in a soft plaintive voice “Mama!”
And I almost suffocated choking back tears while watching My Dog Skip.
Heck, I get choked up just thinking about these two films.
SilkyThreat, not to have a laugh at your husband’s expense, but the way you worded your post made me snort.
My husband seems to never cry at movies. But I guess it’s because he can distance himself. He’s not heartless–he cries sometimes leaving our son at daycare.
My ex-boyfriend always bawled over Field of Dreams.
Mr. Winnie is an exceptionally sensitive person and cries at a ton of movies. Some of his real bad ones are:
My Life with Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman
Field of Dreams
Independence Day when Bill Pullman makes his “we will not go quietly into the night…” speech before they destroy the alien ships.
Saving Private Ryan
Forrest Gump
Bye Bye Love with Paul Reiser when he confronts his daughter in the treehouse at the end. “You just walked out, how could you do that dad?” I think it reminds him of his own father.
A Christmas episode (I believe) of The Bernie Mac Show when Brianna brings in a stray puppy that ends up being an angel, and then the episode when he takes the kids back to Chicago to see their mom and the mom misses her date with Vanessa at the hot dog stand.
I’m always a sucker for Glory.
When the soldiers are praying and singing on the night before the assault on Fort Wagner, Trip (Denzel):
When Colonel Shaw is speaking to the reporter before the battle, and he gives him some personal effects, and says:
And several other points. Along with the music, this one seems custom-designed to break me up.
I’ll second Rudy.
Old Yeller
The scene in Awakenings when DeNiro’s character wakes up after all those catatonic years and meets his aged mother again. (I’m getting a little choked up right now just thinking about it.)
How’s this one ? I get teary eyed during the Death Star battle of Star Wars. All those guys going bravely and professionally to their deaths while people back at the Rebel base listen helplessly. Especially the one who first gets off a shot at the exhaust port. He doesn’t flinch all the while his comrades are getting knocked out around him because that’s what he has to do.
No tears, but I’m also moved by the way the rebels stand their ground as the troopers blast through the door in the opening scene.
I most often weep over scenes of bravery like that. Glory is another one.
I also wept at the end of reading The Return of the King when the hobbits of the Shire rise up against Saruman’s henchmen. I mention it because I’ll never get to see it on screen since it won’t be in film!
The movies that get me are the ones that depict historical military events. I think it is because all I can think about is how young men younger than me actually did these things you see on the screen. In that vein, Saving Private Ryan and Platoonboth choked me up pretty good.
But the kicker is Gettysburg. That movie is an emotional rollercoaster but the part that kills me every time is when Jeff Daniels’ character gives the order to “Fix Bayonets.” They are guarding the Northern army’s flank and have repulsed a number of Southern attacks. They are out of ammunition and the Rebels are coming again…
Gets me every time.
Oh, and I have to add Gallipoli to the ones I mentioned above. If anyone has seen it, you know the scene I’m talking about.
E.T.–the whole farewell scene totally does me in.
I’ll not admit to crying at a movie, but I have choked back a manly lump in my throat at the appropriate moments in the following films:
The Cowboys
Saving Private Ryan
Awakenings
The Iron Giant
Grave of the Fireflies
Braveheart
Glory
It’s a Wonderful Life
Old Yeller
Tender Mercies (“On the wings of a snow white dove…”)
Last of the Mohicans (That little speech at the end…)
But I think I may have to turn in my guy card, because Field of Dreams doesn’t do it for me. I think maybe it only works on guys whose fathers are dead, or guys who have unresolved conflict with their fathers, based on a sampling of guys I know who are deeply affected by FOD.
My Life has gotta be the ultimate guy cryfest.
I am Sam is another one.
I thought My Dog Skip was a how-to guide to make your dog skip on the surface of a lake, if you threw him at a shallow enough angle.
I very much didn’t see it coming, but I really cut loose at the end of:
“About Schmidt.”
I could be the president of the Field of Dreams Bawl Club and also hang my head in shame for the Schindler’s/Glory/Awakenings blubberfest. Nobody’s mentioned it, and maybe it’s time for me to get fitted for my first manziere, but, umm, “Ghost” was, umm, kinda touching. Oh, and League of Their Own. And Parenthood, at the end. But I’ll never admit to how much I cried when I saw “Untamed Heart.” No way you’re getting me on that one. (Hmm, maybe it’s all that soy.)
Hey, wanna see someone cry? Try to guard me on a basketball court, punk.
John Wayne also dies in Shepherd Of The Hills.
So sob away.
The end of Apollo 13 always gets me
Sorry can’t do spoiler boxes
Especially when his son is sitting so stoicly in class, transfixed to the TV, waiting to see if his father is alive or dead.
Life is Beautiful is the last movie I saw that made me cry.
Signs came close, though.
Okay, now somehow my proud, Latino Uncle (read “his greateness, Mr. Macho Guy, in the flesh”) did not know that Richie Valens died in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
On our recommendation, he took his family to see a matinee screning of La Bamba. Around suppertime, they returned. My little, then 3-year-old cousin proudly announced “Dad cried like a girl!”
The ending of Ordinary People.
“I’m not disappointed, dad, I love you.”
Sob.
Regards,
Shodan
Disclaimer: I am female, but a cold-hearted, former film student. It takes something extraordinary on celluloid to make me cry.
Oh, yeah. That scene made me feel like utter crap (didn’t cry though).
The only movies that have ever, genuinely made me cry: The end of Shine and the end of the Charlie Chaplin film City Lights. City Lights has what is considered one of the best endings in film history because it combines pure joy with utter disappointment. The first itme I saw the ending it was “spoiled” in a documentary. I still teared up.
And I fight the documentary Night and Fog unbearably explicit in it’s documentary, concentration camp footage – it so traumatized me, that I have been unable to see films like Schindler’s List and Beautiful Life because after Night and Fog I don’t thinkI could handle it.
ahem
Beg your pardon (distracted by the TV), I meant Life Is Beatiful is a film I won’t see after Night and Fog.