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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:27 AM
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Movie scenes that always brings a tear to my eye
- Forrest Gump finds out that he's a father

- Little Big Man's Indian family is slaughtered by calvary

- George Bailey is saved by the people whom he has helped throughout his lifetime

- Spartacus sees his son for the first and last time

- Antwone Fisher finally meets his real family that he has never known



You?



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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:33 AM
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1. Elliot telling ET goodbye when he thinks ET is dead
Now I cry before that scene just because it's coming up

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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:36 AM
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2. Terms of Endearment, when Debra Winger says goodbye to her kids in the hospital room.
I can't bear to watch it sometimes. Hubby loves the movie too and he has a hard time with that scene...
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:41 PM
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18. That is a classic scene. Deborah Winger was amazing. The kids to. The one where
she says "I know you love me - I know you do" makes me weep every time.
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BeachBaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:45 PM
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22. That's the first one I thought of, too.
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:26 PM
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61. I'll tell you something interesting about that scene
Or maybe it's not that interesting.

I have NEVER seen "Terms of Endearment", but I had to read the script when I was in college and that scene brought tears to my eyes like you cannot believe. Just reading words on a page.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:04 PM
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71. Great script. You should rent it and see it. Winger does a great job and so do the kids!
The little one starts crying while she is speaking to them and that's when I start crying too. I can't stand to see a little kid cry cause his mother is dying of breast cancer in the hospital. It's a gut wrenching scene on the screen. I would understand if you didn't want to have that experience; it's pretty harsh...
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:38 AM
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3. Saving Private Ryan, when he visits Normandy at the end of the movie.
For that matter, the entire beginning of that movie.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:11 PM
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12. Yeah. That ending is rough.
And you're right. On second and subsequent viewings, the opening sequence is way sadder and more powerful.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:48 PM
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46. Yep...I can't stop the tears at that film.
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OmahaBlueDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:49 AM
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4. Stern steps forward and places a ring in Schindler's hand.
It's a gold band, like a wedding ring. Schindler notices an inscription inside it.

STERN It's Hebrew. It says, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world.'

Schindler slips the ring onto a finger, admires it a moment, nods his thanks, then seems to withdraw.

SCHINDLER (to himself) I could've got more out...

Stern isn't sure he heard right. Schindler steps away from him, from his wife, from the car, from the workers.

SCHINDLER(to himself)I could've got more... if I'd just... I don't know, if I'd just... I could've got more...

STERN Oskar, there are twelve hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.

He can't.

SCHINDLER If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money, you have no idea. If I'd just...

STERN There will be generations because of what you did.

SCHINDLER I didn't do enough.

STERN You did so much.

Schindler starts to lose it, the tears coming. Stern, too. The look on Schindler's face as his eyes sweep across the faces of the workers is one of apology, begging them to forgive him for not doing more.

SCHINDLER This car. Goeth would've bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people, right there, ten more I could've got.(looking around) This pin --

He rips the elaborate Hakenkreus, the swastika, from his lapel and holds it out to Stern pathetically.

SCHINDLER Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would've given me two for it. At least one. He would've given
me one. One more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. One more. I could've gotten one more person I didn't.

He completely breaks down, weeping convulsively, the emotion he's been holding in for years spilling out, the guilt
consuming him.

SCHINDLER They killed so many people...(Stern, weeping too, embraces him) They killed so many people...

From above, from a watchtower, Stern can be seen down below, trying to comfort Schindler. Eventually, they separate, and Schindler and Emilie climb into the Mercedes. It slowly pulls out through the gates of the camp. And drives away.

EXT. BRINNLITZ - NIGHT


http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Schindler's-List.html
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:04 PM
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8. +1
I got tears just reading it.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:24 PM
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14. Schindler's list is one of the best movies.
But that scene was very hard to watch, for two reasons, the obvious one of the knowledge that we can always do more, one more little thing, one more act that might save a life...

But also because in that scene it was tied to the use of wealth to save, it is a cycle that makes many have an excuse for wealth, so they have the choice of how it is used. It was not his wealth that saved lives, it was his courage and integrity in the face of so much darkness. The wealth was only one of many tools he used.

Instead of "If only I made more money", the point should be, if I made better choices with what I had, many only see the money in that comment... I actually don't like that part of that movie, for that reason, although I understand the reason it is thought of that way.
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:51 PM
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68. Very well said
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:32 PM
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16. ooh yes.
Tearing up as I post this....
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:48 PM
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32. Yep, that's the one that gets me every time.
Also Return of the King when Faramir does his suicide charge and Billy Boyd sings.

Sally Fields makes her stand in Norma Rae.

Those are the only three that get me every time. I do get a bit weepy in "A Might Wind" and 'The Constant' from Lost. Totally agree on those two.
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:48 PM
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66. Dittos on Schindler's list
That was a precious scene.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:54 AM
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5. "Anybody know what this place is?"
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:01 PM
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6. The Accused
Jodie Foster is badgered by the defense because she didn't cry "rape!" or "help!" when she was being raped. All she said was "no!"

So then Kelly McGillis starts to badger her heavy. Describing the rape, describing the screaming crowd of onlookers - bringing back the humiliation of the scene, then asks her "what did you say, what word came to your mind!" And Jodie Foster says, "no."

Damn. What a performance. Both of them.

Another scene in that movie, when Foster yells at McGillis, "Now I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as shit hope it's worth it!"
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:03 PM
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7. The "Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" performance in "A Mighty Wind".
When the musicians backstage wonder if Mitch and Mickie are going to include the famous kiss before the finale. And they all rush to the wings to see the performance. And they stand there, anticipating, some of them crying, all of hoping. I'm tearing up right now... It was beautiful because it wasn't manipulative at all. We care because they care.

The final scene in "Local Hero", when the jaded oil company executive with the poor record for interpersonal relationships (the only wallet photo he keeps is of his Porsche,) aches to return to the tiny Scottish village where he learned to really live. And the village's public pay-phone rings...and rings..and rings...fade out...
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:05 PM
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9. Wake up Champ, wake up.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:05 PM
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10. The end of Sleepless in Seattle when
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finally meet.

OH! And Harold and Kumar when they finally get their hamburgers! :evilgrin: :P
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:10 PM
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11. In "Ådalen '31"
The scene where Kjell tries to help his mother come to terms with the fact that her husband
has been killed by Swedish soldiers who fired on unarmed demonstrators.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:13 PM
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13. The entire episode of The Constant on LOST
I know...not a movie, but hell...Dez and Penny....WOW.
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:57 PM
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86. I'm with you on that one, gw! Cried like a baby.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:30 PM
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15. This scene from The Deer Hunter
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ogneopasno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:13 PM
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48. Yes.
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:57 PM
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69. Ah, Chopin
I love playing Chopin (yes, I'm a pianist).... I always remember the wedding scene with Meryl Streep, when the wine spills on her dress, and it leaves you with a sense of foreboding.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:34 PM
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17. In the Green Mile
When they execute John Coffee....
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BeachBaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:43 PM
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20. ....
Love that movie. And you're right - that scene is such a tear-jerker.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:54 PM
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24. I think I cried for the last 45 minutes SOLID through that movie
Its one of my all time favorites...:hi:
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:50 PM
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34. Holy cow. That punched me in the gut
That scene was just so indescribably sad. The thing is, I've never really grown accustomed enough to it to not cry.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:32 PM
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43. oh my god, yes
i cry every time
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:43 PM
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19. The "Helsinki" scene in Jim Jarmusch's "Night On Earth"
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:53 PM
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35. That was amazing n/t
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:44 PM
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21. The final scene of
The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart and June Alison.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:46 PM
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31. That was good.
What a soundtrack! One great song after another. And guest appearances by Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Francis Langford, the Modernaires. And great work by the actors too.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:55 PM
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36. One of my favorite movies.
I grew up listening to a lot of big band music. :hi:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:59 PM
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37. I rented it mainly for my Mom to watch,
because that's her era of music. She went to see Glenn Miller and his band once at the Pacific Square in San Diego, and says she just stood by the bandstand listening to it the whole time, and knew then that that music would live forever. So we have watched that movie several times and she loves it each time. I should just buy the DVD for her.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:01 PM
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39. I'm only fifty (only! ha!)
so it wasn't my era, either. But good music does span decades and generations. I bet she would love to have that DVD.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:59 PM
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52. I'll just buy it maybe for Mother's Day. It's also a great introduction to his music
as it contains all his hits and even shows how "Moonlight Serenade" progressed to its final form. The sound quality is amazingly good, too, when played over a hi-fi system. They really did the sound right, for a 1954 film!
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:43 PM
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45. I googled " Glenn Miller Band Pacific Square San Diego"
(This is why I'm addicted to the 'internets'!) :o
A photo of the Pacific Square Ballroom- http://www.swingorama.com/sd/viewtopic.php?t=1729

Music, photos, YouTube videos, radio broadcasts to listen to, and a long article commemorating Glen Miller- http://www.tuxjunction.net/glennmiller.htm
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:02 PM
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53. Thanks very much
I'll show those photos to my Mom. I bet it will bring back memories for her. The Pacific Square is gone now and they have built condominiums at that location. Thanks for looking that up.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 12:49 PM
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23. You must build this fire very big.
for one.
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:24 PM
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26. Good one. This is one of my favorite movies and I've seen probably close
to 50 times.

This line is most definitely a tear jerker! :cry:

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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:28 PM
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42. I'm intrigued
What movie is that?
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 01:43 PM
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25. Final scene from "Requiem for a Heavyweight"
When Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) swallows his pride and does his "Big Chief" routine for the wrestling fans...
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:28 PM
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27. Steel Magnolia's when the Sally Field's character unravels after her daughter's funeral.
Edited on Sat Mar-21-09 03:28 PM by rvablue
Among many others pointed out on here.

"It's a Wonderful Life" even after seeing it so, so many times, always sends me over the edge. Especially, when Harry reads out the cable from Sam Wainwright at the end. :cry:
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:00 PM
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38. That's the one that came to my mind. The Steel Magnolia's scene.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:38 PM
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75. if i watch that one more time Shelby will live, she'll live i tell you!
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 03:39 AM
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92. I KNOW!
I just know that the outcome is going to be different every time I see it! That scene always breaks my heart where she is like crying and then she gets mad and is trying to convince her self that its not actually happening..............thank god to clarice and weezer to lighten that scene up
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 03:40 AM
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93. oops i will reply at the bottom LOL
Edited on Sun Mar-22-09 04:22 AM by stewartcolbert08
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:37 PM
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28. Showgirls
Life is Beautiful
Old Yeller
Field of Dreams
Brian’s Song
Rudy
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:41 PM
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29. ummm....
Showgirls? Because it was so nauseatingly awful?
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:48 PM
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33. it was pretty bad
I cried through most of Battlefield Earth as well.
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 03:43 PM
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30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
When Chief pulls up the faucet and escapes.

And hundreds of others. I even cry during some commercials. :D
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:12 PM
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58. Yes, yes, yes.... I forgot about that one. Amazing sequence. NT
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:23 PM
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40. I don't think anything comes close to Terms of Endearment or Green Mile
but one that hasn't been mentioned is Million Dollar Baby. Here is the final scene, though the parts leading up to it are very sad too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2QiD2L64hA

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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:26 PM
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41. Oh yeah.
How could I forget about that one. Total tear jerker!
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 04:36 PM
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44. the end of the shawshank redemption
the last scene of brokeback mountain
the fox and the hound
where the red fern grows
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ogneopasno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:12 PM
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47. In "The Great Escape" when the blind guy (played by Donald Pleasance) keeps saying, "Have we made
it yet? Are we there?" and they totally lie to him and they all die. Gets me every time.

And then the standards: ET dying, Moonlight Graham forsaking baseball FOREVER, even stupid "Dances With Wolves."

Weird movies make me cry. I cried at "Harold and Maude" a few weeks ago. "Mary Poppins" makes me cry. Basically, if it's a movie, it'll make me cry. I am very much a tough person, unless I'm watching a movie. It's a little pathetic.
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wickerwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:06 PM
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55. Definitely Harold and Maude
when they play "Trouble" at the hospital.

I cry during the Great Escape too for basically the whole final twenty minutes. :D
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ogneopasno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:19 PM
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59. You're my people!
I greet you!
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NYdemocrat089 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:17 PM
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49. Milk
When Harvey receives the first phone call from the teenager who wants to commit suicide because his parents disapprove of him.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:33 PM
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50. Field of Dreams. Playing catch with his dad.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:08 PM
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56. Oh dear god that one's rough, too. (n/t)
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 09:10 AM
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103. I'd already posted another scene, but this is definitely another one for me
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 10:13 AM
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108. "Dad, you wanna have a catch?"
The fact that he sees his father but doesn't call him Dad until he starts to walk away....damn, it gets me even writing it.
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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 05:54 PM
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51. When a Man Loves a Woman...
When Andy Garcia is telling his stepdaughter he and Meg Ryan are splitting up and he says he'll visit her often and she replies because it will be to see her sister, his blood daughter, and he tells her that it will be not to be to just see her but his step daughter, too.

Funny...the step daughter is played by the best friend of the oldest daughter in Big Love...
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:21 PM
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60. That is a great movie. I'm so happy to see someone refer to it. NT
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:05 PM
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54. The Iron Giant
when he says "Hogarth. You stay. I go. No following." and launches off to save the town. His last line is also a teary one...

Also, the scenes of Setsuko dying and the general reminiscing about Seito's young sister, Setsuko, in Grave of the Fireflies.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 09:08 PM
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87. Vin Diesel really should do more voice acting.
Edited on Sat Mar-21-09 09:09 PM by DarkTirade
Despite the tough guy crap he does in most of his movies, he's really got a pretty impressive voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UkZOZIO63I
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 09:23 PM
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90. I agree
He should pay attention to how much more famous Mark Hamill became when he voiced The Joker and so many other cartoon charactizations.

Since The Iron Giant was a Brad Bird film, they should get him to voice whatever animation they've got coming up next :)
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:09 PM
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57. There are so many, but these are just recent examples
Edited on Sat Mar-21-09 06:23 PM by Mike 03
Angelina Jolie facing her horrible psychiatrist in "Changeling" when he is messing with her mind. I find these scenes hard to even watch.

"The Hours." There are a bunch of scenes in this film that tear me up, especially when that one character is considering killing herself while her son is being looked after by a babysitter

"Barry Lyndon", when the boy is dying and begging his parents to love each other, followed by the funeral procession.

"2001" when Bowman becomes the StarChild.

EDIT:

This is a fantastic idea for a thread. I will try to think of some more examples, and I LOVE reading what others are posting.

The "Coda" of "Casino"
The last scene in "The Aviator"

The "Coda" of "Hotel New-Hampshire" where there is this dream of what should have been but wasn't, where the mother and children are still alive, and the father still has his eyesight.



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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:27 PM
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62. This is an absolutely awesome thread. This is the kind of thread that makes me sad that
thread in the Lounge don't get the same rec's and respect as threads in GD.

End of rant.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 10:16 AM
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109. HEAR, HEAR, Mike!!
:thumbsup:
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:28 PM
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63. Fried Green Tomatoes...
Not only when Ruth dies, but the ending shots of the old dead town and the leaves blowing and the faded letters on the cafe.
It was sad to see the town die.
they got the South RIGHT in that film..the light, the dampness, the feeling.

All time favorite film.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:33 PM
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64. A few more
- Immortal Beloved when the love of Beethoven's life finally reads the letter that he wrote her, but after he's passed away.

- And of course, the Ode to Joy scene

- The aforementioned scene in Schindler's List

- The reunions at the very end of Love Actually

- Dr. Zhivago dies while running towards his greatest love

- Dith Pran reunites with Sidney Schanburg at the end of the Killing Fields

- The final gathering of friends and family remember Tom Hanks in Philadelphia

- The same at the end for John Travolta in Phenomenon

- Atticus Finch leaves the courtroom

- Forrest Gump tells Jenny that he knows what love is



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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:44 PM
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65. This scene from V For Vendetta
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:50 PM
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78. Oh yeah
...And the scene on the Underground train at the very end.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:48 PM
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67. In "Milk"
Edited on Sat Mar-21-09 07:03 PM by CreekDog
after Harvey Milk is killed and they show the long procession of candles down Market Street (the blended the original footage into the new movie).

In "Fly Away Home" when the geese make it to their winter grounds. :cry:

And in "Marley and Me" it seemed like everyone in that theater was crying when Marley...uh, well, you'll know when you see it. :hi:
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 06:59 PM
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70. Marley dies ???!!!!!!!
I haven't seen the movie yet.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:06 PM
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72. Kate Beckinsdale and John Cusack at the skating rink near the end of "Serendipity"
...and YES, Cusack gave an interview a few months ago and said that he felt he'd made "several" good movies and the rest really, really sucked, and "Serendipity" was not on his "good films" list, but I like it, so THERE.



:evilgrin:
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:31 PM
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73. The Spitfire Grill
One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, starring Ellen Burstyn.......sin, forgiveness, redemption......it's all there.

There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul

Sometimes I feel discouraged
And think my work's in vain
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again....

Here's a beautiful tribute to the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKVgS_-8hrc&feature=PlayList&p=70E2BA2D9A4DF8ED&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:37 PM
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74. Simon Birch
Here's one of my favorite scenes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXSiJmyVCk
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:46 PM
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77. The scene from Simon Birch
I always cry at this scene, when Simon runs away over the bridge saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:44 PM
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76. The end of "The Color Purple"
When that car pulls up to the farmhouse, I blubber like a baby with colic.

Also, the end of a weird little documentary called "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". I won't give it away, but I went through a LOT of Kleenex.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:16 AM
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97. I don't normally compare movies to books, but that scene is stunning in the book, too.
After an almost unrelentingly tragic book, the way that scene is written just knocks the breath out of you.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:39 PM
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114. Yes.
That one made me cry.
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:54 PM
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79. The end of "Shawshank Redemption"
"I hope."
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:56 PM
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80. Big Fish
When the son was carrying him to the river and all the characters in his stories were there cheering.

:cry:
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PaddyBlueEyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:58 PM
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81. The Boot Camp scene from "Full Metal Jacket"
maybe Im just weird..... :shrug:
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:31 PM
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85. Interesting. I love those sequences, but they never made me cry, but I think that's awesome that
you had that reaction to them.

It is one hell of a film.
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:29 PM
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82. Three from "The Color Purple":
Celie and her sister Nettie are separated.

Shug and her father: "See, Daddy - sinners have soul, too!"

Celie and Nettie are reunited.

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tinkerbell41 Donating Member (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:30 PM
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83. SO MANY!
I dont know what point in Forest Gump I start crying, but I remember blubbering through almost the entire thing, Terms of Endearment sooo describes my relationship with my mother, when Shirley McClaine is at the Nurses Station banging on the counter that her daughter needs pain med, I can totally see it when I was in induced labor with my daughter, also cried at beginning when she shakes the babys crib to make sure she is alive, Soooo did it myself.
Steel Magnolias when Sally Field loses it, also pretty funny and rings true. Another one that is personal to me is one with Jennifer Aniston, who loves her best friend who is gay and loses that relationship to a man, can't remember the name. ET came out when I was in 7th or 8th grade seen it 9 times at movies and cried everytime, watched it with my child and bawled, also cried when I took her to see Star Wars when it came back to Big screen, don't know why?? Sentimental I guess, sharing my childhood with her.
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 08:30 PM
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84. "Brokeback Mountain" -
Ennis goes to Jack's childhood home and finds the shirts from that fateful Summer of '63.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 09:09 PM
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88. Yes, that and the famous "I can't quit you" speech.
I never understood why that line became a joke that was so painful to watch.
:cry:
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EastTennesseeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 09:13 PM
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89. Rachel Getting Married
Rachel: You were high for Ethan's life. You took him for granted. You drove him off a cliff. And now he's dead.
Paul: That was an accid...
Kym: Yes I was. Yes, I was stoned out of my mind. Who do I have to be now? I could be Mother Teresa and it wouldn't make a difference what I did. Did I sacrifice every bit of love in this life because I killed our little brother?

I think the movie had about ten minutes too much post-wedding dancing, but the tormented, heartbroken, begging look on Anne Hathaway's face as she says this is just so fucking sad.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 03:06 AM
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91. The scene in "Philadelphia" where Denzel asks Tom to unbutton
Edited on Sun Mar-22-09 03:09 AM by SeattleGirl
his shirt so the jury can see his lesions.

There are other points in the movie that make me cry, but for some reason, that scene just rips my heart out.

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gbate Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 10:10 AM
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105. You're right. Very sad, indeed.
.
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 04:23 AM
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94. Legends of the Fall
Where that evil cop shoots Isabel 2 and then Brad Pitt is crying in their room and smelling her clothes and stuff. Its the saddest thing ever.
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stewartcolbert08 Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 08:43 AM
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95. The Painted Veil
Where Kittie finds out she is pregnant and Edward Norton is all happy till he realizes that it may not be his...........It just makes me sad.
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OmahaBlueDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:07 AM
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96. Three more that get me
The "twirling" scene in "You've Got Mail". Meg Ryan has closed the "Shop Around the Corner". As she walks out, she takes one last look back at the empty store, and sees her late mother twirling her on the floor as a little girl.


The following line, uttered by Stitch, in Walt Disney's "Lilo & Stitch": "This is my family. I found it, all on my own. Is little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good."


The scene at which I don't merely tear up, but actually bawl, is the final scene in Barry Levinson's "Avalon". At the beginning of the movie, Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl) comes to Baltimore as an immigrant. He opens the movie with, "I came to America in 1914 - by way of Philadelphia. That's where I got off the boat. And then I came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place you ever seen in your life. There were lights everywhere! What lights they had! It was a celebration of lights! I thought they were for me, Sam, who was in America. Sam was in America! I didn't know what holiday it was, but there were lights. And I walked under them. The sky exploded, people cheered, there were fireworks! What a welcome it was, what a welcome!." Flash forward to the end. Sam is on his deathbed in the hospital. His grandson has come to the hospital, and he has brought his son in tow. After the hospital visit, the great-grandson asks why his grandfather talks funny, at which time the grandson starts the retelling of the story of how his great grandfather came to America in 1914. This one only makes sense to me: I grew up between Washington and Baltimore, and new lots of people from families like the Krichinskys. Also, the first time I saw the film was on video in 1992, shortly after my own grandfather died. Hell, I had a hard time writing this without tearing up.

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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:23 AM
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98. Peggy Sue Got Married
Hi,
When she goes back in time and she answers the phone at home and it is her grandmother, gets me every single time I see it.

Peace
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:31 AM
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99. Peter Faulk telling his grandson "As you wish" at the end of "The Princess Bride."
One no one else seems to remember: The sick bed scene in "The Three Lives of Thomasina," when you realize that Thomasina is the child's love for her father.

The "Tiny Dancer" scene in "Almost Famous."

The farewell scene in "Shakespeare in Love."

And one that haunts me still as well as bringing me to tears--the climax of "Immortal Beloved," when she finally realizes she has lived her entire life apart from her love because of a misunderstanding.

Actually, pretty much any movie makes me all leaky. I'm a sap.
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asteroid2003QQ47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 01:32 AM
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100. Casualties of War (1989)
Based on an actual event it doesn't get any sadder than this.
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 02:07 AM
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101. The end of Million Dollar Baby... "Mo Cuishle means my darling, my beloved"
Holy shit. :cry:

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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 02:44 AM
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102. The funeral scene in "Imitation of Life"
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 09:57 AM
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104. the end of Harold and Maude


end of Casablanca


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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 10:12 AM
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106. Red and Andy Dufrense meeting up on the beach in Mexico.
Just a perfectly satisfying end to a movie. I don't know if the Shawshank Redemption is really my favorite movie, but it has to be one of the most satisfying. You just get the sense that all wrongs are made right.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 10:12 AM
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107. Norma Rae standing on the table . . . what a powerful moment.
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:33 PM
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110. The only time I have ever gasped during a movie
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 12:37 PM by bmbmd
was the last scene of "Billy Elliott". Made me glad to be aliv
edit: I just watched it again. Made me tear up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BSyJ_vlHo
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AirBaud Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:34 PM
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111. Cusack in 1408.
The scene with his daughter near the end.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:36 PM
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112. When Jesse finds his car.
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 12:40 PM by geardaddy
In "Dude, Where's My Car"

:rofl:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:36 PM
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113. In Robocop when the bad guy is squished on the windshield.
*sniff*
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-23-09 12:41 PM
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115. The end of Pan's Labyrinth
Beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. :cry:
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