What's the last movie that made you cry or tear up?

I guess my mind is pretty crippled up, but I can't remember the name of an awesome (but devastating movie) I saw recently.

Aha! Got it! Reservation Road!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831884/

How does the function work to embed the link in the text? The hyperlink icon isn't catching, I don't think.

 

In the Rent movie, when people disappear one by one from the AIDS patient support group, and when Jesse Martin's partner is dying

 

Yup. That's a really sad part as well. And the scene in the church. Jesse L. Martin's movie version of the I'll Cover You Reprise is so powerful.

 

Speaking of Reese, I remembered The Man in the Moon, when the boy who's the love interest of Reese and her sister dies in a tractor mishap, and seeing the tragedy tear them apart and bring them back together. Good older movie to get.

In retrospect, I'm apparently like a damn faucet. :-\

 

Major League:

"The Indians win! Oh my God, the Indians win!"

 

My Dog Skip
Old Yeller
Brian's Song
Simon Burch
Hearts in Atlantis

 

OKay, it's a book, but Old Yeller reminded me.

Incident on Hawks Hill. Based in a strue story which happened in Manitoba, about 20 minutes outside the city I was born.

Little autistic (in thosae days he was just known as weird) boy goes missing. Stumbles into the den of a badger who has just lost all her young. Boy stays wth badger, even nurses from her for three months before being found.

Incredible story and tearjerker. I loved badgers ever since I read it at 11 and looked for one in the wild for 19 years before I finally found one in southwest Saskatchewan. (There are very few left in Manitoba). And then, I moved here.

I love the book so much, I'd gladly pay the postage to mail it to anyone who wants to read it, so long as they promise to send it back.

 

Last night's Hallmark Hall of Fame was a true story and, according to Brad Cohen (the guy the movie was about), they didn't add the Hollywood fluff to make it more tearful.

We graduated from the same school, and I've done a couple articles on him. Apparently, when HHOF asked to make a movie of it, he agreed but said he wouldn't watch because he didn't want Hollywood to ruin "his story." He wanted it told, though, for the education of Tourettes. After a few meetings with producers and a few trips on set, he could tell they wanted to tell his story with accuracy.

 

Shit. That makes it even worse, tear-wise. That little girl absolutely broke my heart.

 

I'm not a cryer, really at all - I'm a robot like Michael Bluth. But the one scene that gets me misty time after time is the end of "Big Fish."

 

Saw a documentary on MSNBC last night called "Dear Zachary." Filmmaker was a friend of Dr. Andrew Bagby, who was murdered. Preponderance of evidence points to his ex-girlfriend, Shirley Turner.

Turner was pregnant with Bagby's boy, and fled to Canada to avoid her alleged crime. The movie began as a letter the boy, Zachary, could watch to get to know his dad. Filmmaker talked to family across the country, and in England as well.

Meanwhile, the boy is born, and Bagby's parents fight for visitation. Long-story short, Turner is allowed out on bail by a Canadian judge who deems her as not a threat to society because "her crime, while violent, was specific in nature." Nevermind she had EIGHT restraining orders against her.

Bagby's parents are forced to give the child back to Turner, who begins dating. Guy she's going out with finds stories about her crimes, says to get lost. She calls him 200 times, and eventually tries to frame him for her next and last act, which was to drug herself and the boy, tie him to her person and jump into the ocean.

Amazing story. Bagby's father went on to write a best-seller called "Dancing With the Devil", which I want to pick up now.

Check out more at www.dearzachary.com My eyes weren't dry after that one.

 

My oldest son was 3 when we got it, and I remember sitting through it with him to be the Good Dad. Well, it was easy to do, because it's a great, great movie. And it was hard, because in the climactic scene, I was just about to the point of bawling. My son was probably wondering what the heck was wrong. I would probably still cry now if I put it on. Especially because now it'll also remind me of how my son, now 11, would put on a hat, grab his toy broom for a popgun, and put on what he called his "giant boots" and mimic the scene where Hogarth is investigating the strange noises and occurrences that get him to the giant.

GB-Hack, enjoy a good cry with the ending (spoiler alert!):