Movie scenes that make you cry

That scene has the opposite impact in my house. Whenever the diver takes little Nemo away, I tell my daughter, "See? He should have listened to his daddy." ;D

 

You're thinking of a different scene. I was talking about the part of the movie before the opening credits, when the big fish (a barracuda, I think) comes to take the eggs. Nemo's parents try to fight him off, but the father is knocked out. When he wakes up, the mother and all the eggs but one are gone. He finds Nemo's egg, slightly damaged and talks to it comfortingly...then the credits start.

 

Finding Nemo?

 

Notepad - it wasn't Rifleman, it was Vinnie the desk-raising running back who is later arrested for robbing a store that fumbled the ball for Ampipe against Walnut Heights.

The only football movie that has ever made me cry is "Brian's Song" though "Something for Joey" came close.

 

The Filth and the Fury (The 2000 documentary about the Sex Pistols) - When Johnny Rotten talks about his failure to save his friend Sid Vicious.

(if you're pressed for time, go to 3:25 mark).

Before Sunset - In the taxi.

Of course the king of all weepers is The Office UK Christmas Special episode. That one will leave you in a mist for DAYS.

 

The Ramones documentary "End of the Century" got me a little teary in parts, too. Something about a dying Joey Ramone makes me so sad.

Great call on the UK "The Office" Christmas episode.

 

Love that movie. One of the most underrated romantic flicks ever. But I love the ending most of all. "Baby, you are gonna miss ... that ... plane."

 

I gotcha ... I should have responded to Alley, since I think he was talking about the diver scene.

 

OH, good one! That one gets to me too.

 

If I can jump to television, sort of -- HBO did a documentary in 2005 on the '04 Red Sox, "Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino." There's a scene in the victory parade where a fan holds up a sign saying, "Our parents and late g-parents thank you." There's also a scene in which a woman goes to a cemetery and tells a dead parent about the win.

I always think of my then 78-year-old (now 81) mother, who thought of her father when the Red Sox won it. "He said just before he died in 1949 that he wanted to see the Red Sox win a World Series. He was only off by 55 years," she said right after the final out.

The documentary makes it like a dust bowl in my den whenever I watch that.

 

Who knew there were so many Emma Thompson fans on SportsJournalists.com?

 

Actually, it was on the exchange between QB and RB. The QB was Rifleman.