Movies that made us cry

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Yes, I will admit that I am one of "those" people who has cried at a movie. So, I know that I can not be the only one who got a bit teary at a movie. For me it was "steel magnolias". Saw it in the theater with my best friend. Both of us needed tissues.

Oh, if you don't want to admit it was you, feel free to claim a "friend" as the teary one.

Oh man, Steel Magnolias most definately.

And, how about Terms of Endearment? That's a tear jerker.

Sleeping With The Enemy, with Julia Roberts. She's a victim of spousal abuse. Her husband is anal about everything, including the way the cans are in the shelves, the hand towels in the bathroom, etc... Every time he would hit her, I would just cry. I don't like people who beat others. It really bothers me.

An oldie......Brians Song.

O.K. I cried when we watched Mulan last night. When she sings the song Reflection about when will her reflection show who she is inside. What a sap I am.

Okay... I know that it's NOT a movie... but the series finale of Xena. I was in tears because she died.

That's o.k. Kris. I just cried when I saw Young & the Restless today. Dang, I have become such a sap since I had kids.

Me too... I'm so sappy....

Armageddon, Deep Impact, Awakenings...

I don't know what's happening to me... My daughter opened something in me that sometimes I would rather have remained sealed, even if it was unhealthy...

The Green Mile... "Heaven... I'm in heaven..." Gosh........

Amistad....


Too many................ I think I've become too connected to sappy things lately, almost like I'm subconsciously SEARCHING for things to release the pent up emotions on...

Awakenings! Yup, cried there too. Maybe it is just a mommy thing that makes us more susceptible to the sappy stuff or subliminal messages in Sesame Street.

We just saw "Mystic River" tonight. I was crying more than a few times while watching that movie.

Fuscia,

I can't use that excuse... I'm a daddy.... I've heard fantastic things about Mystic River, but I didn't expect for it to be a tear-jerker. I was intending to watch it, but if it's gonna make me cry, I'd better wait for it to come out on video... Only my daughter and girlfriend can see me cry!

Sierradaddy... just DONT take a child to this movie. There is A LOT of foul language in it. Great movie... and it will make you feel many different emotions. No one will see you cry. It's dark in the theatre.

I love Mulan btw, I can recite the poem in Mandarin, English and Cantonese

I love Somersby, made me cry once or twice or three times...

PS. Xena died Kris? That sucks, really... Anyone see the final of Quantum Leap (so many years ago)? He just leaped into nothingness so sad... since he never got home (well, once)

I'm going to put a smiley face here to balance with all the frowns

Yes, Xena was beheaded in true Samuri style. It was horrible, and there was a way to bring her back, but she wouldn't allow Gabrielle to do it.

I was sitting in a hotel suite in Palm Springs with my partner, my mother-in-law and a couple other people, and I was trying to watch the very last episode, ever. I was crying like a baby, and they were ALL making fun of me.

Somersby was a tear jerker too.

Have you seen, Life As A House? It's with Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, and Mary Steenburgen. Oh man, I cry every time I see that movie. BUT, if you haven't seen it, you HAVE to rent it. It is an amazing movie about this family and what they go through... especially the father and son. WOW!!!!! Great acting too. Kevin Kline rocks in this film.

Oh yeah, that was a good one.

Oh I cried in City Of Angels... actually, bawled is a better word for it.

Okay... here's some.

• Beaches - with Bette Midler
  
• Stepmom - with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon
  
• Kramer vs Kramer - Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep
  
• On Golden Pond - with Katherine Hepburne and Henry Fonda
  
• When A Man Loves A Woman - with Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia
  
• Fried Green Tomatoes
  

War of The Roses hehe hear me out: I was just a kid when my mum got that on video, and I used to feel sad at the thought they would end up like that... of course I wasn't allowed to watch the whole movie, so it's just the bits and pieces that I did see that made me worry.

Yeah, Life as a House was probably the most recently-made film that I dropped a tear to. Good movie.

KJ, it's more about the feeling that I'm crying in public that gets at me... I have some unresolved issues from when I was a kid... Psychological...

Oh, you know, I missed the one movie that will get me EVERYTIME...

Picture this:

I was up late one night with my daughter. She was visiting me for the weekend. She wouldn't go to sleep, and my girlfriend and I weren't living together at the time. My daughter was about a year old, and I was watching The Patriot on Pay-Per-View while putting Sierra to sleep. She konked out really early in the movie, but I was comfortable with her sleeping face-down on my chest, while I was lying down on my sofa.

Mel Gibson's little daughter wouldn't talk to him after he had gone away. He came back to visit her and the rest of his surviving family, while they sought shelter with friends, away from their home which was gutted by soldiers during the war.

When it was time for Mel to leave, he tried to get his little daughter to say goodbye, but she wouldn't. So he started off, disappointed and sad that she wouldn't speak to him. The shot returned to the daughter, who had tears welling up in her eyes. She blurted out, "Papa!!", and ran to him. She said that she'll say anything if he would just stay there with her! I was crying like a BABY! I had my girl there sleeping peacefully and beautifully on my chest, and I was watching a father-daughter scene like that.... EVERYTIME I watch that movie, whether Sierra is there or not, I cry at that scene....... How's THAT for sappy?? I don't care though...

pretty darn sappy but definately nice.

You know what sierrasdaddy... you have a heart of gold.
You just go right ahead and cry. I don't think that there is anything wrong with that. In fact, I think that you're more of a man, because you can be real. And, you love your child.

That movie does have some great parts... but that scene get's me too.

I don't really remember the movie now... I do remember I liked it, just don't remember if I cried or not...

Oh I cried in Schindler's List... more than a few times, I believe.

I never saw Schlindlers List. Never had a desire to.

Oh I love it. But it's something that will definately leave a mark on you...

You know the whole movie's filmed in black and white... except 2 parts. One part, you see a girl wearing a red dress.... I forget what she's doing, but the point is this little girl is wearing a red dress... later in the movie, you see a pile of dead bodies... and in that pile, you see part of a red dress. That part really hit me the first time I saw it

Yeah... it is just one of those movies that I can't watch. Too much history there... to much realness. Too much death. I just haven't watched it, and I don't know that I ever will.

Heidi has seen it... she's been to those places. Eerie....

Schindlers List, how could you not cry. I was beautifully made, with the black and white. The score was perfect for it. It was just one of those movies you had to see. They did a wonderful job. Cried my eyes out. Still mist up when I hear the music.

Sierrradaddy. You are not a sap! It is a parent thing. You just feel differently since you had children. You can imagine and empathize with characters. Heck, I had friends who couldn't watch any show that a child was injured in without crying.

I didnt read through all of these....sorry...

but I will say that Schindler's list is one of the biggest tear jerkers of all times.....all of it, but the little girl in the red dress was devastating.

Anyways.....my tearjerker


Kramer vs. Kramer

how could anyone not cry when Justin Henry started crying in those scenes....I lose it EVERY time!!

Dead Poets Society. That one got to me.

They only tricked me once with that one.
But What Dreams May Come was definately worth the cry

My wife cries everytime one particular dog lifts his legs to pee. Her babies growing up or something... I think good for him!

I agree with Steel Magnolias, when Julia Roberts' character dies, OH MY GOD, i lost it totally, I love Julia Roberts.

The Green Mile, Beaches, yes I cried too.

Little Woman, I cannot watch anymore coz I just bawl when Beth dies, just thinking about it I get teary LOL.

Something I get teased about is that I cried in ET, when Elliott thinks he is dead and they are all so sad, Drew Barrymore is brilliant and I just feel so sad for ET dying without getting home and those mean policemen and scientists. keep in mind i was like 12 when i first saw it. But it still makes me teary eyed even now.

What about Mask with Cher?

Okay...not a HUGE tearjerker...but I cried at the end.

Such a great movie!

I cried watching Mask. That was such a touching story.

Excellent choice. Mask was a good, good movie.

No, I didn't cry in that one, but I was moved by the story.

I think it was the same with Lorenzo's Oil...

Or the TV movie about the young boy with AIDS. I think it was called the Ryan Hill Story... Ryan (if that's his name... Sorry, based on a true story too...) lived in Kokomo, PA I believe. Maybe it's Indiana, I'm not up on my US geography in that respect... Anyways, he had to deal with a lot of scared people who didn't understand the disease (like everyone else back then, and even now to a large extent...) Anyone remember it?

Now that I've opened this up to made for tv movies, anyone care to add one or two of them??

Wasn't Ryan the little boy who Elton John ended up getting involved with, and sang at his funeral? I think that was him. Yes, that was heart wrenching.

Ive got one! A TV movie,,,,,,,,,


If you havent seen this....see it...well, I loved it and I cried...

Its called "After the Promise" with Mark Harmon...

Its happy and so very sad.....

Worth the watch.....I thought anyways.

I copied what it was about...and ooops if I almost didnt put it in the previous post.

Anways here it is...

An uneducated laborer loses custody of his four sons after the death of his wife. He begins the quest to get his sons back, a task that at times seems hopeless until he marries a woman who gives him the courage to continue his relentless pursuit.


And it takes place in the thirties, I think...so you can imagine what it was like for a father to get his sons back...and the things his kids went through....BIG tearjerker!

I have to write about this while I remember, it's about movies, but it's not really something that'll make you cry, it's more weird... anyway, here goes:

It's no secret that Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates 4 times in the Psycho movies, was gay, however was married to actor Berinthia (Berry) Berenson, while keeping an actively homosexual lifestyle. This lifestyle resulted in him contracting AIDS and, eventually, leading to his death on September 12th, 1992 from AIDS-related pneumonia. I'm not sure if anyone knows this, but his wife, Berry, was actually aboard one of the hijacked planes on September 11th, 2001... she died 1 day shy of the 9th anniversary of her husband's death. Very peculiar stuff...

It is actually a bit sad ... oh well

O.K. I will admit it. I cried at Rudy. Just so touching how he never gave up. When they carry him out of the stadium. Yep, I am a total softie.

I have watched it a bunch of times too. It is on my list this Christmas.

I cry at alot of movies. I blame it on the music. If they didn't play that sad dramitic music I could probably get through it. Here's a few examples of movies I cried at:
The Lion King, American History X, My Girl, Well let's just say this basically any movie where someone good dies at the end.

Oh gods... we just went and saw the movie, Radio, with Cuba Gooding Jr. It was SOOOOOOOOOO good, and it will bring the greatest tears to your eyes. It was emotional in a few parts. It's a true story. And it will make you want to see more people in this world like Ed Harris' character, Coach Jones. AWESOME! But, bring a tissue. When the movie was over, there was this real big man walking out of the theatre, with tears going down his face. Everyone loved it.

You have to see BOTH Mystic River and Radio. Incredible movies... and both lead actors should be nominated for their portrayl's of the characters!!!

i cried in the matrix when <removed due to giving away a spoiler of the movie... it's only been out 5 days!!!> ... boy, i'm a wuss =o)

lol, me too, so sad, after all the stuff they have gone through and he brought her back to life in the last one, it was so unfair, I had to hide me tears from everyone else in the theatre, so embarrassed.

Hey guys... THE MOVIE HAS BEEN OUT ONLY A FEW DAYS! Very few people have seen it... and I'm not one of them! That post should NOT have been placed in here. Thanks!

I've edited that post, and taken out that comment. Please don't put something on here for a spoiler for a movie that has JUST come out. Thanks.

Sorry KJ, didn't even think about it, usually I am the last person to see movies and I wait till they are out on DVD, but I actually saw this straight away so I forget some people have not seen it.

It's okay, schmiggens. And, it wasn't your post anyway.

I just know that a lot of people are going to see this particular movie... and that really ruins it, to know about that ahead of time!!!

Anyway... there's a lot of other movies we can discuss.

eh... slipped my mind

It's cool, elk. I figured that was the case. Just wanted to say something, so that others wouldn't do that.

I didn't cry a bit in Matrix, I felt absolutely no emotion what so ever........................ but that may just be me.

I did cry in My Girl, which I think someone mentioned on the last page... what a good movie that was

Has anyone seen, "My Life," with Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman?
Oh man... I sob every single time I see that movie. WATER WORKS!!

Here's some layout from that movie:

(Michael Keaton) is diagnosed with terminal cancer just as his wife (Nicole Kidman) learns she is pregnant with the couple's first child. Realizing he might die before the child is born, Bob decides to make a video about his life so that his child will someday be able to know him. In making the video, Bob embarks on a journey of self-discovery and decides to reconcile with his past, including a years-long estrangement with his own father.

well, lately i cry whenever somebody's love interest in a movie dies... it doesn't even have to be all that sad, it's just because of my own personal experiences lately.

Sorry to hear that elka... I hope that you haven't lost someone near and dear to you heart.

I know it's pretty stupid but Matrix 3 made em cry...

Wow, My Life sounds like an good movie, will have to get it out next girls night in I have, doesn't sound like one for the boys.

I cried in My Girl too.

Oh yeah... you will be in tears watching My Life. The love that they have... and what he's going through... and making those videos, knowing that he will never be there for all these moments. It is so heart wrenching.

Soul Food

Life as a House

Steel Magnolias

Powder

E.T.

Bambi

Old Yeller

Matrix 3

Man there are so many but I can't think of them right now.

Oh man, I think I forgot powder... Also Phenomenon...

I thought that scene everyone's talking about in Matrix 3 was WAAYY too long, and i agreed with some guy in the theatre who shouted out, "Just DIE already!!" (that shouldn't be considered a spoiler, since everyone knows SOMEONE dies, and it's been a while since zero hour, right??)...

Yes, I cried in Bambi too.

Shame.

anybody with a heart cried during bambi... there's no shame in that, lol.

My daughter and I call these movies "Black Hankie Movies," and I made her a lovely black hankie with lace trim for that purpose.

My all time "Black Hankie Movie" is "The Way We Were" with Redford and Streisand--------totally devastating.

However, I must add-------since I am such an animal lover--------that when I watched "Winged Migration" I didn't just cry, I almost died-----gawd, I have to quit identifying with sick and dying animals------jeeezlaweez.

Has anybody seen Ghost Dog : Way of the samurai? that was a tear jerker too... seeing somebody struggle to live honorably in a world where everybody is only out for themselves, and in the end he pays the ultimate price for being a decent human being.

Oh man, Heidi is watching Steel Magnolia's right now... the part where Sally Field (Julia Roberts mom) is falling apart... "Why did Shelby have to die... WHY" I can hear it from the other room, and I'm crying just listening to it. That movie gets me every single time.

Nothing on TV today, so I watched Rudy being re-played on one of the channels. The ending gets to me EVERY time when the guys on the team goes to the coach, and hand him their jerseys, and tell him they want Rudy to play in their spot.

man...what a bunch of saps ya'll are... jk
actually, practically nothing makes me cry anymore. the last time i actually cried was when this girl i liked moved to california this year. but oh man...was i ever trying hard not to cry at the end of ROTK. i also can hardly keep from crying every time i get done reading the LOTR trilogy.