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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
...or laugh or yell at the screen/book/song.

I've been re-watching ST:TNG, and tonight one of the episodes was "The Offspring". That's the one where Data creates his daughter, Lal. (One of my favorites.) I know what's going to happen. Nothing is a surprise, but when Lal is frightened and then is dying, the tears just start running down my face. (I always laugh when she kisses Riker, too!)

What are the things that no matter how many times you experience them, you have an emotional reaction? Please tell me that I'm not the only one!

I'm sure there has to be another Shipmate or two who does the same thing. Tell us! But perhaps limiting ourselves to one experience per post would keep me out of hot water with my fellow Heavenly Hosts.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I've always cried at the end of "Dead Poets Society" (which ends with a suicide). After Robin Williams' death, I doubt that I'll be able to watch it at all.
 

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Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 
"Field of Dreams". Oh. My. God. That movie is an entire box of facial tissue for me. I cry and cry and cry at the part where Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) gets to play a game of catch with his father, back from the dead, only his father is a younger version of himself. Ray had fought with his father about baseball and said some really dumb, hurtful things and then his father had died before Ray got to take all of it back...

I guess it gets me because I lost both of my parents when I was very young and there are things I said to my mother than I wish like hell I could take back...anyway, that movie is healing but it sure clogs up my nose for awhile, if you know what I mean...sniff!
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
The best episode of ST:TNG is in my opinion, The Inner Light, where Picard is immobilised by a probe and then lives an entire lifetime, marries, has children, grandchildren, and sees the eventual demise of the planet, before waking on the bridge. A flute that he learned to play while living this lifetime is left to him in his real life on the Enterprise. I hear the tune he learned in my head even as I write this, and mist up a little. I was as moved as is possible by a ST episode (and am when I see it), and my family generally calls me an old sap for it.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
I don't want to spoil it, but the very, very end of Nights of Cabiria.
 

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Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I've always cried at the end of "Dead Poets Society" (which ends with a suicide). After Robin Williams' death, I doubt that I'll be able to watch it at all.

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I was thinking the very SAME thing the other day! I always cried at the end of that movie but now...I'm fairly certain I will never be able to watch that again...damn! Oh, Robin...
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
I just rewatched Good Will Hunting the other night.

"It's not your fault."
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 

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"Field of Dreams". Oh. My. God. That movie is an entire box of facial tissue for me. I cry and cry and cry at the part where Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) gets to play a game of catch with his father, back from the dead, only his father is a younger version of himself. Ray had fought with his father about baseball and said some really dumb, hurtful things and then his father had died before Ray got to take all of it back...

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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
As a kid "It's not easy being green" sung by Kermit the Frog would have me crying my eyes out.

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Yes! You weren't the only one.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Me, three.

The Eagles song " New Kid in Town" used to destroy me when I was a kid.

[ 27. August 2014, 07:25: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Goodbye, Mr Chips. The book.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
The third LOTR movie gets me in Exactly. The. Same. Spot every time. It’s the soundtrack that does it.

It’s the thick of the battle, it’s going horribly, everybody’s going to die, and then out of nowhere the horns sound and the Riders of Rohan appear over the rise to ride to death or glory.

I always sob.

(In general heroism makes me squish more than the traditional pulling-at-the-emotions stuff.)
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
Collin Raye's song If You Get There Before I Do is sure to reduce me to a sopping mess, as will Tim McGraw's Don't Take the Girl.
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Les Miserables. In at least three different places.
 

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Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :
 
I haven't seen it for years, but the bit in "Shawshank Redemption" when Andy crawls out of the pipe from prison, stands in the ditch and raising his arms in the air in triumph. Feel all funny just writing that.
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 
The film of Watership Down. Pretty much all of it, especially the bit where the rabbits run up the Down itself, and Fiver exclaims "You can see the whole world!"

But this, this is the bit that has me howling, when Hazel-rah is trying to save the warren, and praying to Frith, the sun-god:

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Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well, and it's wrong to ask even more of you. But my people are in terrible danger, and so I would like to make a bargain with you. My life in return for theirs.

Frith: There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla, his life for his chief. But there is no bargain: what is, is what must be.

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
In The Tudors , Natalie Dormer recited the actual words of Anne Boleyn's execution speech on the scaffold. There was a lot of wrong and silly stuff in this TV series (for example, Katherine Howard practising laying her head on the block in the nude!), but every now and then, it produced something spectacular like this. Natalie's acting was excellent.

Here's the full text of the speech , as recorded by an eye-witness. The part that gets me very time is 'I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord' - she had to avoid criticising Henry VIII for the sake her daughter, Elizabeth.
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 

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As a kid "It's not easy being green" sung by Kermit the Frog would have me crying my eyes out.

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If you have read this book you will now have a very good idea of how the telephone works...You may be satisfied with the information we have been able to give you in these few pages. On the other hand, you may...want to go into the subject in greater detail or even make the telephone service your career. In either event, the Post Office will be pleased to give you advice on the technical books available and the steps you can take to further your education.

The Telephone, Ladybird Books 1972

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The film of Watership Down.

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The film of Watership Down.

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Me too...but the same thing (animated disaster with cute protagonists) comes to its apotheosis in Briggs' 'When the wind blows'. Yes, think nuclear-apocalypse meets 'The Snowman' and you are totally there. There, perhaps I am not so weird after all.

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Oh yes, that. Even the book has me blubbing.
 

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Posted by Jante (# 9163) on :
 
Gone with the Wind ending, Sound of Music, when they sing Edelweiss at the concert, Les Mis- almost all of it! and Good Bye Mr Chips and probably loads more I can't think of at the moment

 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Once upon a time, under a previous pastor, staff were all encouraged to take turns providing the devotion for staff meetings. When it was my turn, I chose to read the text of "And Can It Be that I Should Gain", which is my personal theology wrapped up in one hymn.

I was OK until I got to the last verse. With tears streaming down my face, it took a huge force of will to get past the huge lump in my throat to finish reading after a minute? two? (it felt like decades) when not a word could be said.

That was the first time I'd ever said the words out loud. Normally, I would be playing the hymn and absorbing the text then.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 

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Only yesterday I shed tears on hearing the Adagio from Bruckner's 8th symphony. And there aren't even any words! It's the last 4 minutes or so, the coda - it gets me every single time. I think I once managed to explain it to someone as, "It sounds like loneliness," and it does. And I know from his life story that the composer had not a cynical bone in his body, so he's not pulling some cheap trick - whatever he's doing in that music comes straight from his heart.

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There's a piece of music on one of Amy Grant's Christmas albums called Gabriel's Oboe. I believe it comes from a film called The Mission, but I haven't seen it. The music is so mournful that I cry every time I hear it. Every December, I set my iPod to play Christmas music on shuffle while I'm driving; Gabriel's Oboe gets me every time.

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Then don't listen to anything else from The Mission! - Ave Maria Guarani is a heartbreaker for me. Don't listen to anything else by Ennio Morricone, for that matter - I'm a sobbing wreck during the last scene of Cinema Paradiso, and it's mostly his music's fault!
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
I can't read Shirley Hughes' Dogger dry eyed.

I blubbed when reading the Little House on the Prairie books to my kids as bedtime stories. I loved them as a girl, but when I was reading them as an adult, they were completely different.

And I cried buckets when reading the ending of I am David, again a bedtime story for my kids which I'd first read as a girl.

I wonder what impact having your bedtime story read by a sobbing mother has long term?

[ 27. August 2014, 12:50: Message edited by: North East Quine ]
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Jack Point's song at the end of The Yeomen of the Guard, the only one of the Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy operas with a sad ending.

Gets me every time.

Oh, and the theme from Love Story, obviously.
 

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Posted by Siegfried (# 29) on :
 

• Meet Me in St. Louis : As soon as Judy comes in to her little's sister's room I start tearing up and am all out bawling at the end of the scene.
• West Side Story : The tears start as soon as Tony shows up at the playground and continue through the "one more bullet" speech

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The film of Watership Down.

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Me too...but the same thing (animated disaster with cute protagonists) comes to its apotheosis in Briggs' 'When the wind blows'. Yes, think nuclear-apocalypse meets 'The Snowman' and you are totally there. There, perhaps I am not so weird after all.

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Speaking of Toy Story - The song 'When somebody loved me' (written by Randy Newman) played when the doll is telling her tale of her owner growing older and losing interest in her and eventually getting rid of her (Toy Story 2).

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Oh yes - gets me every time. It is a perfect weepy moment.

A film I haven't seen in decades - the original (1963) Incredible Journey. The moment where two of the animals make it home and - for a moment - you think that the third one hasn't made it. I know how the film ends but I'm already welling up just thinking about it.
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
If I can only mention one per post... then the most reliable I have found recently is near the end of Cars when the hero (sorry, I've forgotten the names ) gives up his chance of winning the race to make sure that the other car finishes.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by Siegfried:

• Meet Me in St. Louis : As soon as Judy comes in to her little's sister's room I start tearing up and am all out bawling at the end of the scene.
• West Side Story : The tears start as soon as Tony shows up at the playground and continue through the "one more bullet" speech

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Originally posted by Cottontail:
The film of The Railway Children, where the figure of a man emerges through the steam, and there is this perfectly-timed pause, and then Jenny Aguter cries out, "Daddy! O my Daddy!"

*howls*

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I watched this with a friend and her mum commented that C would never great her father like that. She died a few months ago and I cannot get the scene out of my head, with C running towards her Heavenly Father.

I feel quite silly even posting it

 

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Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
There's a moment in the Doctor Who story Vincent and the Doctor. The Doctor and Amy take the depressed and disillusioned Vincent van Gogh - who only ever sold one painting and who lived in poverty - to see an exhibition of his work in 21st century Paris. Vincent is overwhelmed to see his paintings in the Musée d'Orsay. But then the Doctor asks the museum guide to give his appraisal of van Gogh. Vincent overhears the guide talking about the artist who "transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty" - and I never really make it past that point, I'm afraid.
 

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Posted by roybart (# 17357) on :
 
I agree with Oscar the Grouch about the last brief scene of the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. The surprise -- and the pathos -- are enhanced by a sudden, unexpected, and very beautiful change in visual style.

My first thought when I read the OP: The death of the little burro Platero at the end of Juan Ramon Jimenez's Platero y Yo. It's a sweet, gentle ending, and inevitable. But I never reread this book without hoping that things will end differently this time.

[ 27. August 2014, 21:00: Message edited by: roybart ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
loved what they did for Vincent.

On that note-- Idris's final speech.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, and I hate myself for admitting this, but you know that damn cat speech that got Shelley Long an Emmy on "Cheers" ? Poor dear departed Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who saved teenage Diane from self harm because she had to be there for Elizabeth? Makes me a wreck.

"I can't help thinking she was wondering where I was! "
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
The death of Falstaff: "'a babbled of green fields"
(reaches for hanky)
or Danny Boy well sung: "and I shall hear, though soft you tread above me"
((enough! enough!)

GG
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
The Velveteen Rabbit does it for me.

Moo
 

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Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."

It is simply amazing. The regulars all get a chance to react to the death in their own ways--both individually and as a group dynamic. The episode was done without background music to allow for silences (both comforting and awkward). There are a number of beautiful scenes and lines. Such as:

Buffy, trying to revive Joyce, telling the 911 operator "she's cold." The operator, shocked, asks "the body's cold?" "No," says Buffy, "My mom." She doesn't say it angry like she is offended but simply like the operator misunderstood what she said. The payoff is later when, in a panic, Buffy tells Giles "We aren't supposed to move the body!"--and the moment the words "the body" comes from her mouth--the first time she really accepts Joyce is dead--her face just crumples in grief.

Willow constantly changing her clothes because she doesn't know what to wear for this situation.

Xander punching the wall (and putting his fist through it) out of frustration.

But, perhaps, best of all, Buffy and Tara sitting alone. Tara is new to the group and not much is known about her. Buffy explains that the others (who have left to get food) don't understand because none of them have lost their mother. "I have" says Tara quietly. Buffy starts to apologize and Tara says "No, I know it is different for you. Because it is always different." So true, the death of our own parent is never the same to us as the death of anybody else.

And maybe that is part of why the episode is such an emotional trigger for me. It first aired just a few days after my own father died. I bawled through the entire episode when it first aired. Now I can get a good three or four minutes in before the tears start.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

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The Velveteen Rabbit does it for me.

Moo

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Posted by Oscar P. (# 10412) on :
 
In the movie, It's A Wonderful Life, the last scene shows all of Jimmy Stewart's friends and neighbors coming to the house and bringing money to help save him and the Building and Loan. I get choked up when he first arrives back home and am full on sobbing by the end of the movie. Every. single. time.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!

For those who are puzzled, this is the 1995 version of "Sense and Sensibility". Yes, I cry when reading the book, too. Makes my pillow all wet.
 

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Posted by AngloCatholicGirl (# 16435) on :
 
The end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark". I start sniveling about 10 mins before the end because I know what's coming and by the end I'm bawling (reminds me too much of all the dogs that have been and gone in my life )
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
Speaking of the Muppets and "It's not easy being Green" There was a documentary about Big Bird. I saw at the recent Film Festival I attended.

They included a shot from the Jim Henson Memorial service where Big Bird sings "It's not easy being green." There was not a dry eye in the packed house.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, the Muppets know where to get you. I saw what you are talking about.

Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.

[ 28. August 2014, 04:26: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!

For those who are puzzled, this is the 1995 version of "Sense and Sensibility". Yes, I cry when reading the book, too. Makes my pillow all wet.

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Emma Thompson said she had to talk Hugh Grant into giving up the bulk of his big romantic speech to let long- suffering Elinor have her melt down. Elinor is probably the Jane Austin character I relate to most.

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Posted by betjemaniac (# 17618) on :
 
The end of the Railway Children obviously

some that haven't been mentioned:

- the scene where everyone's singing the Marsaillaise in Casablanca

- pretty well the whole last 20 minutes of A Canterbury Tale but especially the bit where Alison walks through the centre of a bombed out Canterbury (it's on youtube, have a look)

- the closing credits of Cry Freedom

- the last five minutes of Alec Guinness giving the performance of his life in Tunes of Glory

- concerto de aranjuez, juxtaposed with the colliery lighting and a very fiery meeting, Brassed Off

- the scene in Dunkirk when they're all kneeling for prayer on the beach and Bernard Lee gets shot

- the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Anton Walbrook's great soliloquy in the police station

books don't make me cry really, although the last chapter of the House at Pooh Corner gets me every time (seriously).

Music not so much either, although Sandy Denny can be relied on to make me get quite maudlin, much as I love her.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
The episode of Fame where they sang Starmaker as a farewell to Mr Crandall. What the audience didn't know at the time was that the actor who played Mr Crandall was dying of cancer and the rest of the cast were really saying goodbye to him.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Princess was the first book ever to make me cry, when I was (I guess) eight or nine years old.

Twenty-five years later when Sara has lost everything and has to climb up to the attic by herself it still gets me.
 

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Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
"Daddy, Oh my daddy" Was what went through my mind when my father died. I couldn't possibly watch the film again.
The book (In this?) House of Brede by Rumor Godden, I cried through most of it although I'm not quite sure why.
The following films are now banned in our house because beloved husband cries too much at them - The Sound of Music, It's a Wonderful Life and Gone with the Wind. Also oddly, Prince Caspian
I start crying listening to the soundtrack of Les Mis at roughly the beginning and finish crying about ten minutes after the end. Not one to put on the CD player in the car.
Have had a few tears just reading through the posts here.
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
I am a renowned weeper. Most (if not all of the above) apply. My children AND grandchildren openly mock me.

Last year my 21 year old son and I went to Le Mis, in the last 20 minutes he gradually moved 5 seats away (one at a time) he was so embarrassed at the snot running down my face.

I broke down watching some shite on TV last week because the pretend priest was baptising the plastic baby in the incubator. My wife who made me watch it then added this to the list of great times "Pyx_e cries like a baby."

Happy days.
 

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Posted by Dormouse (# 5954) on :
 

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There's a song by The Unthanks, called "The King of Rome". It's about a racing pigeon. EVERY time I hear it, I cry.

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Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.

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"Daddy, Oh my daddy" Was what went through my mind when my father died.

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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.

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Oh yes, and picking up betjemaniac's list, the opening of A Matter of Life and Death where David Niven in his burning bomber is speaking to the American girl in the ops room.

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Oh yes, and picking up betjemaniac's list, the opening of A Matter of Life and Death where David Niven in his burning bomber is speaking to the American girl in the ops room.

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There was rather a lot of Powell and Pressburger in that list wasn't there? But then they were geniuses.

I didn't even mention I Know Where I'm Going! All time favourite film.

It's very difficult, given I'm in my early thirties, to persuade my friends of the awesomeness of P&P, or to give them a go.

My own nomination from AMOLAD (Stairway to Heaven for US shipmates) is the whole of Roger Livesey's courtroom speech.

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I'm about 15 years older than you are, then, and I think I got into P&P when I was an undergraduate. But we were a rather fogeyish generation. You're right, there are blub moments everywhere in their films. I share your view on the end of A Canterbury Tale, too- I grew up near Canterbury and there were plenty of people around who remembered the Baedeker raids of June '42 (when my school was blitzed), so it has a resonance for me.
Getting back to the OP, though, I'm reminded by the mention of my undergraduate days of the effect on a friend of mine of Ella Fitzgerald singing Every Time We Say Goodbye. We'd stick a 78 of it on at the end of the evening just to make him cry.
 

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Posted by betjemaniac (# 17618) on :
 
On Leave from the new album by John Lees' Barclay James Harvest, North.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
The end of Charlotte's Web. I must be world-class wuss - it's a bloody spider for heaven's sake - but I think it's more the little pig's reaction.

Bugger it - my computer's starting to rust now ...
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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In the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's mother (Joyce) dies. Unusually for the show, it is a natural death (aneurysm). The episode dealing with the immediate aftermath of Joyce's death (which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode) is "The Body."

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Everything you said about this, plus Anya trying desperately to say something appropriate and blurting out, "I wish she hadn't died because she was nice." And you see how Buffy understands and respects the effort she made in saying it.

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Sorry to keep piggybacking on people, but my friend J. recently lost his sister to cancer and he said part of his grieving process was repeatedly watching this episode.

Regarding Narnia: I was babysitting a couple kids when I first saw the the BBC version of TLTWATW, and when Susan and Lucy were tending to Aslan's body, I sat there with tears running down my cheeks. The two little girls
I was watching kept boasting," I'm not crying."

Interesting how when we're kids, we pride ourselves on not crying and when we get older, we're relieved we still can.

ETA Oh, yes, Pigwidgeon.

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Posted by Hugal (# 2734) on :
 
Lots of my moments have been listed but in Lilo and Stitch (which is a different Disney film ) where Stitch leaves to wait for his family. Also Tony Jay singing about how the world will hate Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 

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Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 

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There's a song by The Unthanks, called "The King of Rome". It's about a racing pigeon. EVERY time I hear it, I cry.

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You and Mr D both! (and maybe me too on a "glum" day)
It is a lovely song though... The Testimony of Patience Kershaw by the same singers has a similar effect on MrD as well.

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The Painted Veil makes me cry every time. I still love the film, i just have the tissues handy.

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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
The third LOTR movie gets me in Exactly. The. Same. Spot every time. It’s the soundtrack that does it.

It’s the thick of the battle, it’s going horribly, everybody’s going to die, and then out of nowhere the horns sound and the Riders of Rohan appear over the rise to ride to death or glory.

I always sob.

(In general heroism makes me squish more than the traditional pulling-at-the-emotions stuff.)

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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Every time I watch Edward ask Elinor to marry him I sob! Not little tiny sniffles. Huge shoulder shaking, tear flooding sobs!

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The scene from an old episode of M*A*S*H (the television show, not the movie) when Radar announces that Col. Henry Blake's plane has been shot down on his way home to the U.S.

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Lots of my moments have been listed but in Lilo and Stitch (which is a different Disney film ) where Stitch leaves to wait for his family. Also Tony Jay singing about how the world will hate Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Posted by Oscar the Grouch (# 1916) on :
 
June Tabor singing "The band played Waltzing Matilda"

So moving.

(And yet HER version of King of Rome is as tedious as hell...)
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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That scene from M*A*S*H gets me too, but for music the song "Perhaps Love" by John Denver and sung by him and Placido Domingo gets me going.

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My key triggers which I do love, though, have not been mentioned (apart from that opening sequence of "UP").

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My key triggers which I do love, though, have not been mentioned (apart from that opening sequence of "UP").

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...the closing credits of Cry Freedom...

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Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :
 
I'm a bit of a blubber, so when someone warned me about Up! I made sure I watched it from the safety of my sofa. Unfortunately, no one warned me about Frankenweenie and I was on a plane back from Perth when I watched that. Hardly embarrassing at all...
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
Palm Sunday, about five or six years ago, I was one of the scripture readers. I was not assigned the triumphant entry scripture. No, I had the death of Jesus scripture.

I was fine while reading it in my head. Ten or twelve times I read it with no problem. When it was time to read it aloud in the service, though, I broke down.

The parishioners were very kind. They said it made the reading more 'real'. However, I wanted to drop into my imaginary trap door I keep at the organ console.
 

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Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on :
 
There are many hymns I have trouble getting through these days; prime among them is "How Great Thou Art".
 

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Posted by Celtic Knotweed (# 13008) on :
 
Two that get me every time.

First, the scene in The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay where Prince Diarmuid rides to fight Uathach. From there to the end of that chapter, I am reading through tears.

Second, the Fairport Convention song by Richard Thompson, Meet on the Ledge. Just for the lyrics ...and now I've got it as an earworm
 

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Posted by Hilda of Whitby (# 7341) on :
 
Way too many to list, but here are a few:

Music:

Maddie Pryor and June Tabor singing "Gray Funnel Line". Unearthly; simply gorgeous.

The King's Singers version of "The Oak and the Ash". The whole thing is beautiful, but the very last words of the song ("How I wish/once again in the North/I could be") kills me.

"Land of Make Believe" by Chuck Mangione, with Esther Summerfield on vocals, backed with the Hamilton Philharmonic. My husband and I were in the car a couple of years ago, this came on the radio and from the moment Esther Summerfield started singing, I burst into tears. I had never heard the song before. Where the f*@k was I when this came out?!

Andre Heller's song "Du, du, du". Anyone who thinks German can't be beautiful needs to hear this song. The lyrics are just wonderful. It's a very special song to me.

I totally agree with the people who mentioned Randy Newman's "When somebody loved me" sung by Sarah McLachlan in Toy Story 2. I'm a wreck whenever I hear it. Another wonderful Randy Newman song is "That'll do" from Babe: Pig in the City, sung by Peter Gabriel. I totally lose it.

In books:

The part in Nabokov's "Pnin" where Pnin is thinking about a woman he once loved and her death in a Nazi camp. I burst into tears on the subway when I was reading it. Nabokov is not known for sentimentality, and this description was far for sentimental--it was sheer anguish, beautifully written and not overdone. I've never forgotten it.

Thomas Merton's description in "Conjectures of a guilty bystander" of his epiphany on a street corner in Louisville, Kentucky where he says" "There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” I burst into tears when I read it.

Pages 91 and 92 in Pema Chodron's "When things fall apart" where she is describing bodhichitta (compassion) and ends by saying "Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die." I can't read it without breaking down.

The epilogue of Susan Kay's "Legacy", a terrific historical novel about Elizabeth I. It describes her death and what happens next. I won't say any more. It knocked me sideways.

In theatre:

The song "Sunday" at the end of the first act of "Sunday in the Park with George" where Seurat is painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" and the actors are on stage singing and moving around, and then at the very end, in the production I saw, a transparent scrim came down, the lights went on it, and there it was--the picture. I burst out crying; it was gorgeous.

Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia"--the very end, in the production I saw, broke me up. It was just magic.

A little known musical called "Wings" about a woman, formerly a aviatrix, who has a stroke. I cried through the whole thing, because it made me think of my mother, who was also a prisoner in her own body with MS. In the last song, "Wings", the main character is dying, but as she leaves her body, she is more alive than she's ever been and is "going forth on wings". I can't even describe it.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
On YouTube, there's a beautiful rendition of Neil Sedaka's song Going Nowhere by Lena Zavaroni. The words are so poignant, especially as she was already suffering from anorexia. Here's a link if you've never seen it. just haunting.
 

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Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on :
 

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There are many hymns I have trouble getting through these days; prime among them is "How Great Thou Art".

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That scene from M*A*S*H gets me too, but for music the song "Perhaps Love" by John Denver and sung by him and Placido Domingo gets me going.

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You'd lose. And don't get me started on "Christmas for "Cowboys". . .
 

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Posted by busyknitter (# 2501) on :
 
Is this where all we John Denver fans out ourselves.

And I can't even read about The Railway Children without welling up........

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Posted by Niminypiminy (# 15489) on :
 
So many children's books :

Dogger by Shirley Hughes ('then Bella did something very kind...')
Peepo by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
I am David ('my son David' ... can't see the keyboard for tears just thinking of this one)
The chapter of the Silver Sword by Ian Serralier where the dog dies so that Jan can escape
the ending of Children on the Oregon Trail
Obviously the ending of the Railway Children
Goodnight Mr Tom
The bit where the girls weep over dead Aslan

Basically I'm a hopeless crier. I haven't even scratched the surface here, not to mention films, music, adults books.
 

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Oh, golly, yes. I sometimes wonder what it was like for his mother, quietly getting on with her life with the ever-present heartache of a missing-presumed-dead son - who one day turns up on her doorstep. Stopping now because my eyes are tingling ...
 

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Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Almost any story from The Moth Radio Hour. (themoth.org)

These are ordinary people telling stories about themselves in their own shaky voices and whether they're meant to be funny or sad, they all make me mist up a little bit.
 

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Posted by Eigon (# 4917) on :
 
I've even cried over Ivor the Engine! Ivor takes the choir to the seaside, and they all go off and enjoy themselves while he's left alone on the railway track - later, they build a special bit of track so he can go down onto the beach with them!
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
"Old and Wise" from Alan Parsons Project always does it for me.
 

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There's a moment in the Doctor Who story Vincent and the Doctor. The Doctor and Amy take the depressed and disillusioned Vincent van Gogh - who only ever sold one painting and who lived in poverty - to see an exhibition of his work in 21st century Paris. Vincent is overwhelmed to see his paintings in the Musée d'Orsay. But then the Doctor asks the museum guide to give his appraisal of van Gogh. Vincent overhears the guide talking about the artist who "transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty" - and I never really make it past that point, I'm afraid.

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The "Into the Forest" chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where the dead appear to Harry, gets me every time.

In one of my favourite novels, Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night, the line "All the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," at a crucial moment in the story, makes me cry every time I read it.

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Oh and of course in the right mood this and this will get my, and any English secret romantic's, tears flowing.

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tangent: I nearly jumped out of my chair with surprise when I saw one of the stations in the first clip you linked to - I live not five minutes' walk from where it was! The footpath that used to be the railway line runs along the back of my street.
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
Oh God, I've just read through this thread

I would add Sarah McLachlan's 'In the arms of an angel', and Bif Naked's 'Tell on you'...

And what everyone's said about Vincent and the Doctor...
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
...and to add, the death of Ginger in 'Black Beauty', which upset me so much when I read it as a child I haven't been able to read it since.

I can't bear the pain of animals, real or imagined, and I also wept seeing the stage version of 'War Horse'.
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
I saw WAR HORSE just last month -- it struck me as so clearly a Spielberg movie.
The third TOY STORY movie was terribly weepy for me, because my son had just driven off to college. And we have a white minivan. The idea that he was going off, and the boy would never come back again even if the man does...
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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...and to add, the death of Ginger in 'Black Beauty', which upset me so much when I read it as a child I haven't been able to read it since'.

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
No, she is worked to death as a cab horse... and now I'm snivelling again
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oooh, yeah.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
...And Black Beauty wasn't certain it was Ginger, but he hoped that it was and she was out of her misery.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 

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Go to Youtube and see if you can find a clip of the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird comes to terms with the death of Mr. Hooper. ( the real life actor had died shortly before the episode was shot.) Big Bird acted out the point of view of a preschool child who didn't understand the concept of death. The other actors responded to his questions and sadness in character, but they allowed themselves to freely weep through the dialogue. It was one of the frankest, most respectful, most heartbreaking treatments of a character/ actor's demise I have ever seen.

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I can't listen to 'Into the West' at the end of LOTR without bawling my eyes out. It makes me think about death and loss and in spite of all my struggles with faith to confront my small remaining hope that I might see them again.

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We played this at my mum's funeral as she was carried out and, as a result none of my brothers or my father would listen to it again because it made them cry. I play it and remember .. and cry.

Also from the Lord of the Rings (book)The bit where Sam thinks Frodo has died, and knows he has to go on and destroy the ring, even though it means leaving Frodo's body.

"Let the Celebrations Begin" a picture book based on a true story set in a Nazi concentration camp before and on the day of liberation. The women are using their clothes to make toys for the children who have never had them.

As mentioned above ... "Blackadder goes Forth." When I first saw it I sat there absolutely stunned.

Huia
 

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Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
I agree with so many of these, especially the scenes from Field of Dreams, 4 Weddings & A Funeral, and West Side Story.

I would add: the final speech given by The Little Prince before his death:

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night."
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Yes to The Little Prince - and I'll raise you The Velveteen Rabbit.


 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
What about the end of Wilde's The Selfish Giant, where the small child is revealed as Christ and the giant dies peacefully?
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
All of Oscar's fairy tales, really - especially in The Nightingale and the Rose where the Nightingale sacrifices herself for the Student, and ends up lying dead in the grass with a thorn in her heart...
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Talking of Wilde - how about The Ballad of Reading Gaol?
 

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Posted by JFH (# 14794) on :
 
This film set to James Blake's music has me typing this through tears right now. Joni Mitchell's haunting melody, with James Blake's heartrending singing and arrangement, with that video so full of expressions and emotions, catching precisely a relationship that's just not quite right, in which there's plenty of joyful moments but where everything all of a sudden turns dark, before going back to regular... I couldn't describe it any better, sorry, but there you have it.

I agree totally with the first five minutes of Up! (basically a short film in itself), and the Goodbye Lenin scenes mentioned above, in particular the sandman scene.

I'll also mention Almost Famous. Plenty of scenes touch me very, very deeply, probably most of all the one where Will breaks down in tears in a hotel corridor. In part it's about being lost, far away from home, but it also illustrates so well the struggle to try to be cool and the terrible moment when you realize there's just no way it'll succeed.

Also: Bruce Springsteen's If I was the priest often moves me to tears. Not sure why, but it was song of tears for me even before it got attached to the loss of a childhood friend last autumn.

And, on the right day, Lamb Chopped's sig. (Not the bit about her book.)
 

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Also: Bruce Springsteen's If I was the priest often moves me to tears. Not sure why, but it was song of tears for me even before it got attached to the loss of a childhood friend last autumn.

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Springsteen is another one who knows how to get you where you live.

Any James Taylor fans out there? "Close your eyes."
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Criminy. I am watching Fanny and Alexander for the first time.
 

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It's moving in places but a nagging bitterness comes across.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Yes, tho' he might well have thought that he had something to be bitter about.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
The West Wing, Series 1 "In Excelsis Deo". The final scenes when the homeless man is being buried with full military honours always gets me.

Brilliant.
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
Many, many of the above, especially Vincent and The Doctor


I'd like to add Ed Sheeran singing Small Bump

The scene from carousel where Billy Bigelow watches his daughter graduate unseen

The book Love You Forever


[Links edited because you had "http://" in twice in the urls. - Ariel/Heaven Host]

[ 09. September 2014, 19:38: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
"Love you forever" is one of my favorite books to read aloud. I read it at my Grandma's memorial service. It fit her perfectly.
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
While we're on "The Doctor made me cry" I found "An Adventure in Space and Time" eye moistening as well.
 

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Posted by Miss Madrigal (# 15528) on :
 
When I first watched "The Elephant Man" in the cinema I had to leave as I was crying so much after 20 minutes it was disturbing the other audience members.

The scene in Brassed Off where the band plays Londonderry Air to Danny as he lies in hospital, his wayward son struggling with his collapsing trombone.

Bring it back to the cast of ST:TNG, I'm catching up with Breaking Bad and in the last episode of series 2 there is a look that John de Lancie gives that just made me crumple. One look, perfectly acted.
 

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The scene in Brassed Off where the band plays Londonderry Air to Danny as he lies in hospital, his wayward son struggling with his collapsing trombone.

Bring it back to the cast of ST:TNG...

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I remember that film: we enjoyed it very much but it doesn't make me cry to think about it.

(By the way, Michael Dorn who played Warf, is an old school friend. I last spoke to him at a convention more than a decade ago. He commutes to speaking engagements in old fighter planes.)
 

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Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
Another vote for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode: 'The Body'. A stunning piece of tv, beautifully written, directed and acted. It captures perfectly that point of grief when it feels like everything is muffled and silent and no one knows what to say to anybody else.

The Dark Crystal. Oh Good Lord. Not just a bit misty-eyed, but great fountains of tears. Repeatedly. It matters not at all that all the characters are puppets. No-one creates a puppet like Jim Henson Creature Shop.

Which reminds me of numerous bits of Farscape but especially the very last 5 minutes (pre-Peacekeeper Wars). Vaporising main characters is a good way to get any audience blubbing, but at the end of the series, just having heard that there might not be any more episodes. Blimey.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Billy Elliot - the movie, not the musical is a tearjerker in a few places but especially that final moment when he leaps on to the stage as an adult as the character from Swan Lake.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
When ET seems to die. I broke up both times I watched the film.

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
Every Easter that we use the passage from John's Gospel. There's Mary Magdalene devastated by the death of Jesus, and she encounters the Gardener. He calls her "Mary!" and suddenly she realizes -- and I start crying.

The Christmas passage from Luke's Gospel often gets me too -- especially when told by Linus.


 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Dobby is killed - I finished that book [again!] last night.
 

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Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
I started reading this thread yesterday, and subsequently had to go to a meeting while looking like a pot of stewed tomatoes.

My father, a locally-known athlete and coach, died suddenly at 49. I had spent much of my childhood watching him being clapped and cheered. A month after his death, I sat in the front row in a university class. First poem: To an Athlete Dying Young.

That same year, Field of Dreams - dealing with baseball, fathers, death, forgiveness, and eternal life - came out. It took me years before I could bring myself to see it, and even then it had a hurricane-like effect. To top it off, my father had known the story's author from university.

Toy Story 3 and Up deserve honourable mention.

I always cry at The Field Behind the Plow because it reminds me of my grandfather. It seems to me to capture the reality of farming the vast, beautiful, harsh prairie, and both the grim endurance and the hopefulness of it ("Watch the field behind the plow/Turn to straight, dark rows/Put another season's promise in the ground.") Sorry, the video isn't very visually engaging, but just listen to it for some damn fine folk music.
 

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Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :
 
Lots of hymns (and I mean LOTS) have bits that will start a tear for me; sometimes the power of the words, sometimes a remembered association or occasion, but one that never fails is the final stanza of 'My Song Is Love Unknown' -- I think it's the combination of that text with John Ireland's perfectly matched tune.
We sing it every year as the final hymn during communion on Palm Sunday (admittedly an emotionally charged service) and I have to work very hard to keep my sobs from being audible. My fellow choristers know that I'm unreliable from about the middle of the 3rd stanza.
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Pity that hymn is so anti-semitic.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Saw that one coming...
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
I cry every time at Apollo 13. That moment when there is silence and everyone is waiting to see if they managed to get back and it cuts to Tom Hank's son at school. He's away from his family and trying to be so brave and I just lose it.
 

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Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Tom Hank's son (the actor) in the "Fargo" TV series made me tear-up a couple of times. What a sweet sensitive face he has.

The Winona Ryder version of Little women has lots of sniffly moments. Of course when Beth dies but even earlier, after Amy has burned Jo's manuscript and puts her head around the door to whisper, "I'm sorry, Jo." You know it's her first real experience of remorse.
 

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Posted by Scots lass (# 2699) on :
 
I know it's been mentioned several times, but UP. I cried the whole way through that - to the extent of having to leave the room to fetch tissues. Lots of my other guaranteed crying have been mentioned: Little Women, certain episodes of West Wing, The Railway Children.

L M Montgomery gets me badly twice, first in Anne of Green Gables when Matthew dies, and then Rilla of Ingleside when Jem Blythe comes home.
 

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He flung himself against the tall soldier, with a bark that choked in his throat from sheer rapture. He flung himself on the ground and writhed in a frenzy of welcome. He tried to climb the soldier's khaki legs and slipped down and groveled in an ecstasy that seemed as if it must tear his little body in pieces. He licked his boots and when the lieutenant had, with laughter on his lips and tears in his eyes, succeeded in gathering the little creature up in his arms Dog Monday laid his head on the khaki shoulder and licked the sunburned neck, making queer sounds between barks and sobs.

The station agent had heard the story of Dog Monday. He knew now who the returned soldier was. Dog Monday's long vigil was ended. Jem Blythe had come home.

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There's a piece of music on one of Amy Grant's Christmas albums called Gabriel's Oboe. I believe it comes from a film called The Mission, but I haven't seen it. The music is so mournful that I cry every time I hear it. Every December, I set my iPod to play Christmas music on shuffle while I'm driving; Gabriel's Oboe gets me every time.

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Oh, my dear one, you haven't cried enough if you ever get to hear a chorus singing actual words to that tune! I'm not sure if the choral group I heard using words was the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus or the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus but one of them sang a version of "Gabriel's Oboe" with words and and an oboe player and I had to get up and leave the auditorium because I was sobbing so hard I couldn't breathe. I have wanted to find a copy of that performance but it was way back in 1992 and I'm not sure what chorus sang it...anyway, the words weren't in English and the power of the music and words...just thinking of how beautiful and sad it was makes me tear up...
 

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Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 
Shadowlands, that movie about C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. C.S. Lewis is played by Anthony Hopkins and Joy Gresham is played by Debra Winder. The scene in the hospital room when Joy is dying...dear God, I watched that at the Cinerama in downtown Seattle with a friend of mine and we were both sobbing our eyes out and trying to pretend we weren't. The scene were Joy's son, either Douglas or David (I don't think the movie acknowledged that she had two sons) is in the room with his dying mother and everyone is trying to be brave...aaaaaaa!

And let's not forget the dreadfully depressing death of Debra Winger in "Terms of Endearment". What a sob fest! Again, any movie with someone dying prematurely or without making up with someone they hurt or who was hurt by someone else is always guaranteed to make me cry buckets.
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
Another piece of music which has me snivelling is Radiohead's 'Exit Music (for a film)', used in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet

And recently our organist told us we were singing Tchaikovsky's carol 'Crown of Roses' during Advent ....beautiful!

I'll try and link it here

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But I do get annoyed with films where a major character apparently dies... then there's a pause so all the audience can dissolve in tears... then Presumed Dead pops up as good as new to general rejoicing and the end credits roll. Yes, Walt Disney, I'm looking at YOU. It happens so often it's predictable.

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