Movie scenes that make you cry

City of Angels might work for me, if Meg Ryan's character didn't die in such a Darwinian awards manner. Seriously. She was riding a bike down a goddam mountain, not holding on, not looking where she was going, and I'm supposed to be sad and shocked she's dead? Now if she took anyone out with her... that would've been tragic.

As for movies I'll see rarely, then only alone because of the dust.. Perfect Storm, Man on the Moon are a couple.

 

If you are a romantic, the last two minutes of "You Got Mail" are superbly acted and worthy of a tear of happiness. Hanks' reaction when he sees Meg Ryan is so natural, and her "I was hoping it would be you," comment amid her doubt over whether or not to laugh or cry was absolutely brilliant.

 

Word for word on the first three. Also, the scene in Love Actually where Colin Firth proposes in Portuguese.

I AM NOT GAY. /larrycraig

 

Another vote for "Hey, Dad? Wanna have a catch"

Also:
"Listen to me son ... it's not your fault." (Good Will Hunting)

The scene when Elliott talks to the allegedly dead E.T. Took my wife and daughter to the re-release and I fought as hard as I could ... wife has never let me forget.

The Rookie when Dennis Quaid tells his son he's going to the majors.

The post-game celebration in Miracle. Getting chills just thinking about it.

The end of Saving Private Ryan when Ryan salutes the grave.

Pretty much the whole The Passion of the Christ.

And it's not a movie, but in 90210 when Mrs. McKay (Rebecca Gayheart) is gunned down. Dylan's reaction put four college freshman soccer players who barely knew each other in tears.

 

Good one ... especially when he sees the dress and cat crawls up to him. Good music selection over the scene as well.

 

That makes me bawl like a baby.

 

This is no time for me to get into why Field Of Dreams makes me crazy again.
So, I'll just say.

1) You can cry not just from sadness. Which puts me in mind of the "Marseillaise" scene from Casablanca. And JR's right about the scene on the runway, too.
2) The "Non nobis" long tracking shot of the battlefield from Branagh's Henry V. (The "We, happy few" speech raises some dust, too.)
3) "To my big brother George, the richest man in town."
4) Happy to see "Love Actually" get some props. My scene is the last one with Laura Linney and her institutionalized brother.
5) "City Lights" when the flower girl sees Chaplin for the first time.

 

Great stuff, fen.

Love Actually is one of my 10 favorite movies in my life.

 

When Affleck finds out his wife has died in Jersey Girl, and not because he was any good ro it was such a brilliantly written scene. I had this terrible, irrational fear all through my wife's entire pregnancy with our daughter that I might lose her and be left alone to raise our little girl. Not sure how it got in my head, but when the doctor recommended a C-section about 12 hours into labor... that scene with Affleck brought me right back there.

For Love of the Game made me cry because of what Sam Raimi did to my favorite book, dammit. The scene when Billy Chapel ends up in the hotel room alone at the end is so much better in the book. I won't spoil all of it of somebody ever wants to read the book, but he calls Carol (I forget the girlfriend's name in the movie. I think they changed it). The dialogue in the call is just perfect. Of course it helps that the character is a lot easier to like in the book than the movie.

Add me to the list on Brian's Song.

Same thing for the girl trying to protect her father in Crash with the magic cape...the look of pain and horror on the father's face...Hell, I even THINK about that scene and picture my 4-year-old and it gets dusty....

 

Some great moments have been mentioned. . . Field of Dreams, Good Wil Hunting, Brian's Song.

It took five pages for somebody to bring up the final scene in It's A Wonderful Life. How powerful that is (especially since the first time I saw the movie I was away from home on Christmas Eve and it ran on just about every network).

The scene in Band of Brother's when the unit enters the death camp.

The funeral montage in Beaches with Did You Ever Know That Your My Hero playing (a saw it with a group of friends, one of whom died in an accident about two weeks later. To this day, that song reminds me of him).

Several moments during Dr. Green's death episode on ER (the one in Hawaii) and the letter from him that was faxed to the ER in the episode before with the note at the bottom that he had died.

At the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy when the Hobbits bow to the new king, only to have the king say, "My friends, you bow to no man." Wow, it got dusty at that line.

 

Here's another vote for "Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?" Just watched it on HBO. It gets me everytime.

I also co-sign on the last five-10 minutes of Shawshank Redemption, pieces of Forrest Gump and the entire Passion of the Christ.

A couple of others that for some reason always get me...

- The end of Stranger Than Fiction. I'm not sure why, but the way it ends just strikes me as so poignant, I shed a tear or 10 every time.

"As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick."

-Tombstone is one of my favorite movies ever, but I still get caught in the scene where Doc is laying on his death bed and Wyatt refuses to leave.

Doc Holliday: What do you want Wyatt?
Wyatt Earp: Just to live a normal life.
Doc Holliday: There is no normal life, there's just life, ya live it.
Wyatt Earp: I don't know how.
Doc Holliday: Sure ya do, say goodbye to me, go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that and don't look back. Live every second, live right on through the end. Live Wyatt, live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever truly my friend, or if ya ever had just the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now, leave now, please.
Wyatt Earp: Thanks for always being there, Doc.

 

Holy shit, I had forgotten one of the last scenes in Band of Brothers when one of the real-life men (Heffernan?) is talking about how his grandson asked him if he was a hero in the war and he tells him no, he served in a company of heroes.

Damn.


EDIT:

From the TV show department, the last five minutes of "The Stackhouse Filibuster," from the West Wing.

Maybe I just miss my grandpa.