Movie scenes that make you cry

"wanna have a catch?" really. sorry guys, i don't get it.

everytime i hear it i wonder: who in the hell wrote such a dumb line?

 

What movie makes you tear up, TP?

 

the ends of braveheart and city of angels are two.

 

Any movie where half of a couple dies makes me bawl. I have no problem admitting this.

Also, the scene in Jersey Girl when Affleck shows up at his daughter's talent show. I cry and cry and cry, but then, I am a girl

 

I forgot to put the scene where Neil kills himself in Dead Poets Society on my list. Brilliant movie.

 

The "It's Not Your Fault" scene in Good Will Hunting...

When Shirley MacLaine slaps her grandson in Terms of Endearment...

Any scene between Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People...

When Johnny Depp burns down his house in What's Eating Gilbert Grape...

The part of Forrest Gump that got to me was when Forrest asked Jenny if Forrest Jr. was smart...

 

I totally forgot about the "It's Not Your Fault" scene. A definite tear-producer every time.

 

i didn't know you were so damned weepy.

 

Me too...Good Will Hunting is one of my faves.

 

OK, here goes...

My Dog Skip (fuck you, Vick)
Simon Birch
For Love of the Game (the scene of Costner in his room -- alone -- after throwing the perfecto)
City of Angels
Saving Private Ryan (the final scene)
Ol' Yeller (fuck you, Vick, again)
Mister Roberts
The Champ
Remember the Titans
Red Dawn (the two brothers on the park bench)
Hearts in Atlantis (the scene with the daughter at the end -- "She had the heart of a lion")
The Natural (the scene when he's asked to throw one pitch after practice -- and it rips the batting cage -- and everyone turns to the mound in astonishment... I know, I know, sappy)
Life is a House
My Life
Philadelphia
Terms of Endearment

Television
Brian's Song
Thirtysomething (the episode where Gary dies)
Jimmy Smits' finale on NYPD Blue
The ending of the two-part X-Files episode, "Closure" -- (haunting song my Moby ends it)
The Midnight Caller episode when Jack's ex dies of AIDS.

OK, that's enough... it's getting reeeeeeally dusty in here.

 

Movies
Steel Magnolias -- When husband comes home to find toddler son roaming around on the floor next to his dead wife
Schindler's List -- Many scenes in this movie choke me up and ditto with The Color Purple and Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg is amazing)
Million Dollar Baby -- One of the final scenes when Clint pulls the plug on Hillary Swank
Ol' Yeller -- Had to be the very first movie I ever cried at

TV
MASH finale
Jimmy Smits' finale on NYPD Blue
Anthony Edwards' finale on ER
Bette Midler singing to Johnny Carson on his last Tonight Show

 

That's another film.....

From the moment Mr. Johnny-Walker-Blue-Label Voice intones "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. That's goddamned right." (as he climbs the same chair Brooks had.... only to carve into the wood "So Was Red."), it is pure spickets for me for the remaining five minutes of the film. Occasionally it starts as he reads Andy's note.

That's where I am in life, so its resonance is deafening.

Morgan Freeman has had perhaps the greatest late-blooming movie career in my life (maybe Kathy Bates is in the neighborhood). That performance, particularly the narration... I don't know who could have pulled it off if not for him.