FESS UP! Everybody gets choked up at some films.

1.) Central Station: When the boy is running at the end.

2.) Field of Dreams: That classic father and son catch scene.

3.) IN COUNTRY (with Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd). The motley crew travels to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall in DC to pay respects to their friend, father and son.

When the mother sees her son's name on the wall for the first time and touches it and says, "I'm gonna ball!," that kills me. It's choking me up right now as I type. It's too much!

4.) Born on the 4th of July

During the parade a disabled old vet walks by. That's it. So effective.

5.) Mask

That is one tough movie to watch. The deformed kid graduates with honors and to see his family so proud of his achievement at the end? It's a killer.

These are good to find for yourselves. They can help you get to a place with your own acting if you need to be in that place.

Many thanks to IN COUNTRY and that scene for helping me with scenes!

Hey, I remember "In Country"! I LOVED Emily Lloyd - used to see her in a lot of movies but it's been a while. I read somewhere (if true) that she has problems with OCD.

I'm really bad at "top 5" lists. But so many movies have scenes that make me cry.

1)Steel Magnolias -- funeral scene

2)Fried green tomatoes -- same, funeral (Ruth's) and that scene beforehand where Cicely Tyson tells Idgie to let Ruth go

3)Joy Luck Club -- almost every scene in the movie

4)The Color People -- almost every scene in the movie (but esp. when Celie is reunited with her kids - I'm almost choking up thinking of it now)

5)Terms of Endearment -- several scenes

1) The scene in My Life when Michael Keaton's character finally gets the circus in his backyard.

2) The scene in My Girl when the boy (McCauley Culkin) is in the coffin without his glasses and the girl comes out saying "he can't see wihtout his glasses on"- ugh gut wrenching.

3) The Gone With The Wind, I'll never be hungry again scene.

4) The end of Shawshank Redemption when Morgan Freeman is walking toward Tim Robbins on the beach.

5) The scene that gets me in Steel Magnolias is when Sally Field picks up her grandson right after Julia Robert's character dies in the hospital.

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Originally posted by my3monkees:
1) The scene in My Life when Michael Keaton's character finally gets the circus in his backyard.

5) The scene that gets me in Steel Magnolias is when Sally Field picks up her grandson right after Julia Robert's character dies in the hospital.

YES!!! (for me too)

Yeah those are the moments when a film gets you, it's as if it's saying, Ha! got your heart got your heart!

I find when I tear up in a film, that it's usually something joyful.

Schindler's List - Toward the end, i believe at the train station, when Schindler breaks down, and is telling all those he saved how sorry he is for not doing more, for helping more, that he felt so bad and guilty that he couldn't do more, and Ben Kingsley and everyone is saying that it's okay, that they're children are grateful, and then they go to real time and all the survivors are walking around his grave,- holy god thats hard to watch.

I am Sam - when Dakotas character, in the court room starts crying and starts saying to sam to take her home and that she loves him, Wow.

King Kong (the new version) - I know I know but when king kong and Naomi Watts are on the state building, and he's really tired and sits and looks out at the sunrise, and shes looking at him, and he starts patting his chest, saying "beautiful" what she taught him, and she start crying, and you know whats about to happen, yeah, that got me, big time.

and my girlfriend, who didn't know how the movie ended! was a blubbering idiot! ha!

Braveheart - a few times in this one, but specifically, after Wallaces love was murdered, and he's on his horse, slowly trotting up to the magistrates fortress, and he just starts brutally killing everyone - yes I'm a guy- and it just tugged at my heart that he was doing it for the death of his love, sniff...sniff sniff.

The last of the Mahicans - at the end when they are all on the cliff, and the two indians fight and Magua kills the indian friend of daniel day lewis, and the young girl that was in love with him is so distraught, she moves toward the cliffs edge, nothing is said, just that look on her face, as she moves closer, and jumps off. rips ya apart.

Here are some more:

Eleni: Eleni is about to be executed before a firing squad. (True story.) She holds her hands up and screams "My Children!" That kills me.

Titanic: There's a brief clip of poor Irish immigrants herded like cattle in steerage. An Irish mom politely tells her kid to wait, it's not their turn, being in steerage. Oh, that kills me. Seeing the old couple lay on a bed and be resigned to their fate, that killed me.

Seeing the ship split and Kathy Bates say "Mother of God," that kills me too.

JURASSIC PARK: I know, I know, how weird to get choked up. But in the beginning we see the look of astonishment on Laura Dern's and Jeff Goldblum's faces and then the old bag says, "Welcome to Jurassic Park." Then a cut to the Brontosaurauses! I get so choked up at that scene. Why? I don't know. It's just so astonishing.

Dead Man Walking: The end when Sean Penn breaks.

Field of Dreams: The end, where there's a line of cars coming to see the field.

An Officer and A Gentleman: When Seegar makes it over the wall, finally! I also get choked up at the end when Gere says thank you to Louis Gossett, Jr and Gossett almost loses it.
Also, when they fight? That I WANT YOUR DOR! scene. That is POWERFUL. When Gere breaks and then Gossett says, Alright Mayonaisse.

GERE DESERVED THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR THAT FILM!! (So did Gossett, who did win.)

Okay, now I'm a total wuss, but ET!!!!!!!!!!!

ET, at the end when he says to Elliot: "I'll be right here," and then walks on the ship. KILLS ME.

I love ET!!!

There's also a French film where two boys are best friends, one is Jewish. At the end the Jewish kid is taken away by the Nazis. OUCH. That kills. I think the word "Infant" was in the title.

Okay, THIS ONE makes me certifiable, LOL, but the comedy, "MEATBALLS"? When Bill Murray takes a special interest in the loner kid and tells him that if he makes one friend all summer, he's done alright. KILLS ME.

The end of RESURRECTION with Ellen Burstyn when she hugs the cancer kid!!!!!!

au revoirs les enfants?

THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good topic, PB!!

Besides many many of the ones above:

In "Truly, Madly, Deeply" when Alan Rickman recites the spanish poem that Juliet Stevenson translates as he speaks, telling her that he wants her to go on living. I bawl like a baby!

Speaking of ghosts, the end of "Ghost" where Patrick Swayze says goodbye to Demi Moore.

In "Cocoon", when Rose dies and Bernie is shown carrying her dead body across the field in the moonlight to take her to the pool - gets me every time!

In "A Little Princess" when Sarah is being taken away by the police in the pouring rain screaming "Papa!" and her father finally remembers she is his daughter and calls out her name. Also, the scene where she dances the Sun Salutation with her Indian neighbor in the snow.

In "A Room With A View" when Lucy runs out to the carriage with her mother and cousin in it with tears streaming down her face and her entire face lit with joy and also the scene where George kisses her in the barley field.

And this is my Hall of Shamer, the end of "You've Got Mail" when Meg Ryan first sees that her online love is Tom Hanks. I'm such a total SAP.

There are so many more.

OMG...Truly Madly Deeply! WAY better than GHOST, in my opinion. Alan Rickman is the only man old enough to be be my father I would do ANYTHING for...Don't tell my boyfriend that...

Also, I could be channel surfing & see Shirley Temple's Little Princess screaming "It's me Sarah!" etc., to her wheelchair bound father and I am TOAST. TOAST.

"Portrait of Jennie" with Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones.

Angela's Ashes....

Okay, I can't resist these: Star Wars - the end during the medal ceremony...The Empire Strikes Back - When Princes Leia says she loves Han and he says "I know" and then becomes a frozen hunk-cicle...and the original ending of Jedi...With Ben, Yoda and Anakin looking on smiling at "the gang"...even with the those damn little ewoks singing, it was emotional because we really believed it to be the end of a great film trilogy. And as far as I'm concerned it was. My universe doesn't include the new film trilogy.

I could go on and on and on....Coram Boy...oh wait, that's a play!

"a frozen hunk-cicle"!!! I LOVE IT!

I should clarify, Lisa, I'm talking about the remake of "A Little Princess" directed by Alfonso Cuaron. I don't like the Shirley Temple version. But if you cry at it, have fun!!

I'm watching "The Last of the Mohicans" right now - ah....I cry when Uncas gets killed and Alice jumps every time, too!

Okay, another sap admission - the end of "Somewhere In Time". The big tears start a-rolling!

Actually, I knew you were talking about the newer version. I love that too, but I'm a sucker for Shirley Temple....can't help it!

SOMEWHERE IN TIME....I'm tearing up just thinking about that film!

I can see you having little ringlets and dancing around about the Good Ship Lollipop!! Hahaha!

What irony! I was going to start a similar topic.

My brother and I did a Rocky marathon recently and both of us teared up at the ends of the first two. In the first one, when Adrian for the first time can't hold back her feelings and says she loves Rocky. In the second, the entire sequence from the 10 count of Apollo and Rocky to the speech at the end. Yo Adrian, I did it!

I also teared up at the end of the two recent 9/11 movies United 93 and World Trade Center.