YES! ROCKY.

At the end when he wins and is yelling for Adrian!

Also, The Karate Kid! When he wins at the end!

I tear up easily at all the movies mentioned above. My hubby usually teases me, but I love seeing him tear up during Armageddon when Bruce Willis/Harry says goodbye to his daughter as he's about to blow up himself with the asteroid.

I remember when I saw Terms of Endearment in the movie theatre, I had just had my appendix out the week before. We thought we'd go to a movie to do something where I could sit quietly. Well, by the end of the movie I was in so much pain from crying, while trying to hold pressure against the pain in my healing abdomen, I was a wreck! You suddenly realize how much your abdomen contracts when you cry. OUCH!

One that hasn't been mentioned yet is Contact when Jodi Foster/Ellie sees her dad coming toward her on the beach in her altered state of mind or time travel. I had to imagine a scene like this in an acting class, but with my own image of someone I've lost. I was balling.

I know there are more, I'll have to think of them.

Haven't seen the 9/11 films yet, because I know it will take me a long time to get over them. I still have the Time magazine with the cover of the little girl sitting on her dad's shoulders crying. I see that and lose it. I've also used that in my acting class to bring my emotions to the surface in an instant.
(did I do the "lose" right PB?!?!?)

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Haven't seen the 9/11 films yet, because I know it will take me a long time to get over them

Me too!

Peter, you're such a bastard, sometimes . . .

Alright . . . It's Confession Time. First it was the5 Songs You Won't Admit are on your Ipod that almost put me back in therapy . . . and now this topic. Well done once again, Mr. Brady: you've chosen another topic that's going to have some of us revealing deep ditches into our souls that what good it could possible do is but make us that less American and that more Human

I repeat: Peter, You Bastard.


Tear Jerker #1 (And to this day still remains my all-time Sad Eye Movie way back when I first saw it when I was about 7 years-old): Brian's Song: James Caan & Billy Dee Williams

Tear Jerker #2 Field of Dreams: Kevin Costner. I've seen the film countless times but it has been only the past four or five years since I started the Waterworks at the film's famous final scene. And even so, I don't always cry when I see it. We've all know the term, "chick flick," well this is the film that re-defined the term "guy flick." This is the film that made it OK for dudes to cry openly.

Tear Jerker #3 Glory: Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman & Denzel Washington. It didn't really make me cry, per se, but it did make me proud as a black man in America: And that alone got me a little bit choked up.

Tear Jerker #4 the Magnificent Seven: Again, not exactly a tear-gusher for me but when Charles Bronson got it at the end of the film while trying protect the children in the village, that made me feel real bummed. to this day, I still have a hard time watching that movie from beginning to end.

And that's all I can think of. I suppose I can throw in a few honourable mentions to the following: The Champ (1979 renake): Ricky Schroder, Jon Voight & Faye Dunaway; Sounder: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield & Kevin Hooks; And as I think about it: feature film version of Requiem for a Heavyweight: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason & Mickey Rooney. These films didn't really make me cry (although I came close on a few occasions), these films did make me feel real sad.

Yes, Field of Dreams and Brian's Song are killers.

The Poseidon Adventure: When Shelly Winters dies!

I also choke up at the beginning of the Poseidon Adventure when just after New Year's Eve at Midnight the alarm bells go off. There's confusion on the ship and Shelly Winters looks so scared and confused. I think she calls for "Manny!" I get so choked up over that!

I also tear up when Red Buttons says to Carol Lindley: "I'm not leaving without you."

Do you cry when you listen to Journey, too? I do.

You are the worst! Yes, during "Don't Stop Believing"!

I'm sure you're my sister's friend. I know it!

Journey RULES.

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You are the worst! Yes, during "Don't Stop Believing"!

I'm sure you're my sister's friend. I know it!

Journey RULES.

Why don't you just send her your love, Peter and just get it over with any way you want it Dude??

...Send her my love....

AHAHAAHAHAHAHA

One that hasn't been mentioned is Galipoli (spelling?)
The film is seductive pulling you into the feelings of the characters and then,
when the camera cuts to the trench with all of the dog tags and letters, it wrenches your guts out. Especially since it was based on reality.

I can honestly say it was so good that I never want to see it again because it made me feel too much.

gracej: you would seriously suffer at the end of the Broadway play "Journey's End."

I saw it a few weeks ago and the ending is very hard to endure.

Ok...so I cry at the drop of a hat at movies- just seeing the preview for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe had me tearing up!

In no particular order:

The Notebook- just knowing how much that man loved his wife and knowing he'll never have her back again, yet he lives for those 5 minutes every few months when she's back and remembers him- oh dear Lord....I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

LOTR: The Return of the King....on mount doom when Sam tells Frodo, "I can't carry the ring, but I can carry you," and then picks him up and struggles up the mountain....also, when Frodo is leaving and the hobbits realize it and they all start crying- ack!

Who Will Love My Children- a made for TV movie with Ann Margaret. I remember seeing this as a kid and crying throughout the whole thing- to this day, my little bro always remembers that film as the one that made him cry. Seriously...if you've seen it and didn't cry, you've got an empty black hole where your heart should be. This is probably the number one tear jerker for me.

Serenity...when Wash dies....DAMN YOU JOSS WHEDON!

And one people have already mentioned- Steel Magnolias. I can't imagine having to make the decision to pull my loved one off of life support. Gets me everytime.

The Champ. When Jon Voight dies on the table and Rick Schroeder is bawling his eyes out and tries to wake him up and the ring guys pulled him off Jon and Faye Dunaway watched the kid's pain and grief. That scene always gets me!

Gladiator when Russell Crowe is crying over the death of his wife,I love it when there was a string of spit was coming from his mouth and snot was coming out of his nose. That was great. He really worked that scene!

This is going to be weird and it's not a film it was a tv show. PBS's The Electric Company.
The Electric Company !?! I know,I know. Let me explain......

I was channel surfing and they were showing it on Noggin. I haven't seen that show in like 25 years,I grew up on that show! I teared up big time because it brought back so many great memeories from my childhood and I learned a lot too!

When a Man Loves a Woman. Andy Garcia rocked that role when he was sticking with Meg Ryan's character when she was battling the bottle. Great! I get a little choked up on that one.

Rudy. When Sean Astin is running on the football field and he comes up with a great play to win the game send chills and tear to my eyes. I'm a small guy and when the little man comes up big time,I gotta give him props!!!

And there you have it!

solo007: Brian's Song -- yes -- definitely one of the great "dick flicks" -- men who won't even admit to crying admit to crying at this one.

zippypie -- Ghost and Cocoon -- good choices!

How about these (not necessarily in this order)?:

1. The opening of Saving Private Ryan. The horror of what those men suffered, in the most realistic portrayal to date, according to those who were there.

2. When Bambi's mother gets shot, for those of you who were ever children. Need I say more?

3. Spock's death in Wrath of Khan. ("I have been, and always shall be, your friend...") Another dick flick moment.

4. The final scene in It's a Wonderful Life. ("A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town.") Supposed to be a happy ending, but a big boo-hoo nonetheless.

5. Edward G. Robinson's death scene in Soylent Green (1973 -- his final film). His character, Sol Roth, going to death in an euthanasia center, bathed in orange light, watching scenes of extinct animals and plants, listening to Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (The Pastoral) -- "I love you, Thorn." (To Charlton Heston.)***

***This one resounds particularly for me as I had only seen Robinson's first major film, Little Caesar, less than two weeks before. Add these to his performances in Scarlet Street and All My Sons, and there is a film career right there.

Here's some more:

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: When Seegar finally makes it over the wall with Zach's help.

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: When Zach graduates and he tells Foley Thank You, Foley tells him "Get outta here," because he's going to cry. It's really powerful.

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: When Foley fights Zach, wants his D.O.R. and he screams at him, "Don't you do it! I got nowhere else to go." It's a killer.
One of the best scenes in any movie!

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: When they graduate and toss their caps in the air.