Tear-jerkers!

I'm such a WUSS! Today the kids were watching Black Beauty 1994 version (yes, the horse movie!), and I cried like a baby in certain parts! LOL :rolleyes: Other movies that can get me reaching for the box of tissues are
Shindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Dances With Wolves
Phenomenon
Brian's Song

I know there are more! What movies get your waterworks going? 'Fess up now! :)

Good topic Gen!

How about:

Steel Magnolias
Stepmom
The Color Purple
Philadelphia

Originally posted by 1love
Good topic Gen!

How about:

Steel Magnolias
Stepmom
The Color Purple
Philadelphia

Ooooh, I forgot about those! My dad even cried watching The Color Purple. How bout Terms of Endearment ? I usually get started right around the scene where Shirley McClaine is at the hospital, yelling at the nurses to give her daughter the medicine! After that, forget it. I'm done for. Keep the tissues coming.

it's an ongoing joke in my circle of peeps that i cry at Jello-O commercials.
heck, i cried reading "Little Toot" to the boys 2 nights ago.

but steel magnolias gets me every time.......step-mom with julia roberts and susan surandan. oh gosh, movies are just racing thru my mind. anything ! can make me cry. *weep*

I cry everytime I watch, 'Fools Rush In'. Its a comedy, but at the end I always cry, lol.

Also, the last two episodes of Sex and the City make me cry......Sarah Jessica Parker is an awsome actress, she proves this in the scene where she confronts Mr. Big in front of her apartment.......that scene always makes me cry.

And of course, the last scene in the Godfather when Michael Corleone's daughter is shot.......Al Pacino gives the best acting ever in this scene & I always cry. LOL

Oh yeah Bella.... I love Fools Rush In... very sweet movie and a tear jerker.

Also, Braveheart! I cry on that one too and I am not a Mel Gibson fan but that movie is the best. When he is being tortured and screams "Freedom!" That is very profound to me....

How about the one with Tom Hanks where he is stranded with the volley ball? Can't remember the name but that was very sad as well...

For me... some of the biggest tear jerkers that get me everytime:

"Parenthood" OMG, the scene where the Steve Martin is in the auditorium and they feel the world is like a rollercoaster? Or Keanu Reeves has to talk to his wifes little brother about sex? OMG. That movie makes me sob buckets and laugh hysterically!

"Mask" Gets me every time. I love Cher.

Dang... what's that movie with Cher and Meryl Streep with the theme song "Amazing Grace"? You know, the one with the nuclear radiation issue? (brain fart) Sob every time I see that.

"Casablanca" and "It's a Wonderful Life."

That's it for now, but I've got a slew more in the recesses of my brain I might think of when I wake up. LOL.
~phosphorescent

PS. And... DUH! Of course! OLD YELLER!

is it '9 months' with hugh grant and julianne moore? she gets pregnant, he's not sure he wants to commit?

the last scene, when he gets up with the baby, he starts dancing with the baby to quiet him down. julianne moore comes in and they all three are dancing in the wee morning hours..... the song "the are the days" starts playing......omg, WEEP !

Yes Amina... Castaway!

And OMG Fos... I love Mask too! Love Cher in that and Sam Elliot.

That movie you are talking about with Cher and Meryl... I think it is Silkwood....? When she sang Amazing Grace, I could have keeled over dead of sheer and utter torturous sadness.... (how was that for drama?):p

Oh yeah... and one of my all time favorites of which I have on VHS that makes me cry a river is:

Splendor in the Grass

Now... I have the original one with Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood (1961). I also love the one with Melissa Gilbert and Cyril O'Reilly (1981).

The name of the movie is from this poem by William Wordsworth... just an excerpt...

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

William Wordsworth

Sad, sad movie.... you should see it if you have not...

Yes it WAS Silkwood, thank you!!! :D

I also cried for Moonstruck.

See a pattern here? I think I'm a major Cher fan. LOL.

I haven't seen Beaches. :o MY BAD!
~phos

Originally posted by Amina315
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!


YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BEACHES????

OMG...I didn't think there was a person alive who hasn't seen Beaches....

"ya gotta giiiiiive a little..taaaake aaaa littttleee...and let your poooooor heart breaaaak a liiiiiiittle...that's the story of...that's the gloooory of...loooooooove"

ok now i faint...

Put me in the corner with Fos... I haven't seen Beaches either...

Originally posted by Amina315
sheesh it's about time some one with some sense replies!!!

LOL!!!


Awwww.....blow it out your tailpipe!:D

Originally posted by Amina315
Melisa was that a personal attack?

Of course not Amina... I was just trying to start a debate on whether or not people should be personally responsible for blowing it out their tailpipes... a.k.a. BAD GAS... ;)

LOL Em! What a ya talkin about? I learned everthing I know from watching you!;)

Originally posted by Amina315
lol...do you remember that commercial? The kid was smoking pot and the dad starts screaming at him and he says "I learned it by watching youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!" lmao...that was hilarious...

ok now i'm calm

LMAO! Yes, I remember...

Nessa...did that coffee run off your keyboard and onto your lap? If so, you could sue.... get lots of money....take me and Em on a tropical vacation, etc....:p

Beaches is just about the saddest movie.....

Does anyone remember that movie, 'Dad'...OMG, now that is the saddest movie ever!!!

O.K. now I"m a nerd, but the Benji movie made me cry......lol

OMG... just thought of two more tearjerkers....

"I am Sam" starring Sean Penn

and "Bill" starring Mickey Rooney

so darned sad... both of them are mentally challenged individuals.

Isn't that movie beyond sad??

Everytime I find myself crying at a movie I think to myself, "OMG, I am turning into my mother!!"
She used to always cry while watching 'Beaches'.

A really sweet movie, to me a tearjerker, is "Crazy from the Heart" with Christine Lahti and Reuben Blades. Is not easily available, had to pay lots for it, don't know why! About a high school principal (Lahti) falls in love with the janitor (Blades) who is Mexican --set in a small racist Texas town. Really great ending!

Just saw a really nice love story last evening, called "Falling in Love" with two of the greatest actors out there--Meryl Streep and Robert DeNiro. They met in a bookstore, goes through their agony over seeing each other, as both in marriages (failing). A nice ending, remet in same bookstore--won't tell whole ending. Not a great movie, but the acting by these two is great, as always!

Add to my list, two of my favorite tear-jerkers that I watched on Christmas day...

Gone With The Wind

Legends of the Fall

The Green Mile
Bigfish
Bed of Roses
Somersby
Hope Floats
Sweet November
City of Angels
Pay it Forward
Patch Adams

*Had to come back and add Dead Poets Society

The absolute ultimate tear-jerker of all time is the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. It's a classic, tragic love story. If you have never seen it, and want to have a good cry, rent it. Keep your tissues close by. Everyone I have ever watched this movie with cries their heart out, including men. It is my all-time favorite movie:



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Other tear-jerkers I love:

It's a Wonderful Life
Old Yeller
How Green Was My Valley
An Affair to Remember
Forrest Gump
Brian's Song (there were alot of good old sad movies made in the 70's)
Rudy
The Wizard of Oz (it was so sad when she got homesick :( )
A Night to Remember (an older movie about the Titanic)
The Champ
The Little Princess (Shirley Temple movie about a little girl at a boarding school whose father is presumed dead -- boo hoo!)
Adam (about Adam Walsh's death)
Terms of Endearment
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

You can tell I love old movies. :p

I'm sure I have more that I could come up with. I cry at just about anything -- including Hallmark commercials.