# What's the first movie you recall seeing that made you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047 "2011-02-20T21:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/81 "2011-02-21T21:28:48Z")
Brian’s Song Baybaee!!! We just got word that Brian Piccolo is – that’s he’s sick, very sick. And, it looks like he might never play football again, or for a long time. And, I think we should dedicate ourselves to give our maximum effort to win this game and give the game ball to “Pic.” Billy Dee at his finest… ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/82 "2011-02-21T21:33:33Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > [cliche] > > Old Yeller > > [/cliche] It’s a cliche, but in my case it’s true. I remember when I was a kid my Dad was watching this on TV; I had never heard of it. I missed the first 30 minutes or so but stayed until the end, at which point I was a blubbering mess. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/83 "2011-02-21T21:39:14Z")
_Dersu Uzala_. I was 14 and home from school because of a cold and happened to watch this movie on TV. (Only many years later did I realize it was directed by Kurosawa.) I might have cried earlier from a movie, but this is the first I remember. It had a tremendous impact on me, and took me completely off guard, so to speak, because it appeared to be just a boring old film, but there was nothing else on, so I watched it and will never forget. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/84 "2011-02-21T22:15:54Z")
Ring of Bright Water. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/85 "2011-02-22T01:49:45Z")
The only movie I remember making me cry is Edward Scissorhands. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/86 "2011-02-22T02:02:40Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > There’s a rigid formula for making you cry at movies, and Disney (and Pixar) have it down cold. I think Spielberg nailed it for **E.T.** and then tried to go back to the same well when he made **Hook** , but it just fell laughably flat. > > Wait, did anybody here cry during **Hook**? I did, but in my defense, I often cry when I’m experiencing physical pain. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/87 "2011-02-22T13:29:26Z")
Bambi, Dumbo or maybe Old Yeller. Damn you, Uncle Walt! ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/88 "2011-02-22T15:55:53Z")
> [@cruel\_butterfly](#): > > Dot and the Kangaroo. It was made in 1977, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t see it until I was about five. I don’t remember exactly what the movie was about, but I DO remember crying and having dreams about that movie for quite a long time after. That bunyip sequence was some serious nightmare fuel. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/89 "2011-02-22T15:57:40Z")
Sniper. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/90 "2011-02-22T15:59:03Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > When I was a kid in the seventies, certain movies were shown once a year on TV and the event was practically a national holiday as far as we were concerned. I remember well assuming the position to watch Snoopy, Come Home…lying on the floor on my stomach, propped up on my elbows with my hands concealing the side view of my face so my brother wouldn’t see me crying. Of course, he was doing the exact same thing. > > Snoo-oo-oo-oo-py, Snoo-oo-oo-py, why oh why did you roam? Come home, come home. This, except my sister and I were young enough to unashamedly bawl our eyes out. The signs were so mean to Snoopy and Woodstock! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/91 "2011-02-22T16:23:51Z")
One of the “Planet of the Apes” movies. I can’t recall which one it was or how old I was but there’s a scene that takes place on a ship and a little ape infant - possibly that of the main characters? - is shot by the bad guys / gorillas and then we see its little dead body floating in the sea. I don’t know what came over me but I was HYSTERICAL.Thanks goodness it was on TV at the time and not in the theater because I had a major meltdown. As I’ve gotten older it takes less and less to make me misty eyed but up to that time I honestly don’t recall anything on the screen making me that sad. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/92 "2011-02-22T16:34:35Z")
**[Benji](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071206/)**. There. I said it. **Benji**. Shut up. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/93 "2011-02-22T17:31:47Z")
The only movie I can remember making me cry was **A Time to Kill**. It’s lame, but at the end I cried when the white kids were playing with the black kids… I think I was 16. It was really embarrassing leaving the theater all teary-eyed. **The Green Mile** didn’t make me cry, but I was totally upset when that one character was put to death without the wet sponge on his head. I’ll never watch that movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/94 "2011-02-22T18:34:41Z")
I also saw Bambi around 3 or 4 and literally bawled my figurative butt off by the end of it. I think I was crying just because my sisters were, I don’t remember it very well other than it was the first movei that I remembered and there was a fire and Bambi’s mom got shot. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/95 "2011-02-22T19:09:36Z")
> [@bup](#): > > **[Benji](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071206/)**. > > There. I said it. **Benji**. > > Shut up. Same HERE!! ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/96 "2011-02-22T20:18:49Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Ive never actually cried, but I have choked up a time or two. The first time I can specifically remember getting a lump in my throat was _ **Field of Dreams** _. When Costner asked his dad “You wanna have a catch?” Same here, except I become a blubbering mess. Getting choked up just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/97 "2011-02-22T22:06:06Z")
_The Wizard of Oz_. “I think I’ll miss you most of all.” And the floodgates open. And then a moment later when Glinda is sending her back using _REAL MAGIC_ – _“There’s no place like home…”_ – more tears, but more thrilled than sad. And I’m thirding _Benji_. I steadfastly maintain that _that dog could act_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/98 "2011-02-22T22:59:50Z")
**Born Free** We saw it at a drive-in when I was 7 or 8. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/99 "2011-02-22T23:28:01Z")
> [@bup](#): > > **[Benji](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071206/)**. > > There. I said it. **Benji**. > > Shut up. Same here also. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047/100 "2011-02-23T00:05:16Z")
It took a lot of thought, but I finally remembered what it was: a movie about a dog named **Scruffy**. The scene that made me cry, back when I was 10 or 11, was when the homeless man who took her in died suddenly, leaving her all alone. Again. Interestingly, there are two threads at IMDB by other people saying it’s the first movie to make them cry too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-movie-you-recall-seeing-that-made-you-cry/572047.md?page=6)