Tearjerkers

[LittleClarkie]

Movies or songs or plays that make you cry, every damn time.

I'm a sucker for Sondheim musicals, myself. "Children and Art" and "No One is Alone" just kill me.

I cried when Edith died on "All in the Family"

I cried when Henry Blake died on "MASH"

"Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin, "In the Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics, both dad-related.

Aw, crap :cry:

[auntAgonist]

1. Bridge over troubled water ..

the final episode of MASH
Sophies Choice
Steel Magnolias

SOME episodes of West Wing.

I cry (cried) when I watch the news sometimes.

[LittleClarkie]

5. I cried during "Dave"

I want that president!

Steel Magnolias, definitely.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

2. "To Kill A Mockingbird"

Film or book.

It's the only film I know of where the opening sequence can reduce me to tears. It's the perfect evocation of idealized memory.

In the book, Atticus' lecture on the need to battle lost causes can't help but draw the sniffles.

[leftstreet]

3. Longtime Companion

No matter how many times I see it.

[Chicago Democrat]

4. anything with Bette Midler in it!

Anything sad..

[LittleClarkie]

6. Beaches

Yikes.

A freakin' Kodak commercial. "Listen to the pictures..."

Shut the hell up, pictures.

Oye.

[MrScorpio]

7. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

[Clintmax]

9. Me too! Tearjerker every time!

[SeattleGirl]

10. Yeah, my "allergies" always act up!

Kleenix at the ready! :cry:

I really love what they do for people who really need help.

[pdx_prog]

26. Oh yeah....

Amidst all of the vile programming on network TV these days this show shines above all of them. It's a good thing that these people, ABC and Sears are doing.

[WCGreen]

8. In a movie called "In Country".....

There is a scene where the counry folks go off to Washington to see the just opened Vietnam War Memorial...

The mother of a lost son is old, desperatly over weight...

All she wants to do is touch her boys name on the wall...

They search for him,, find him on one of the turns, up to the top...

She climbs on the little step ladder, steadied by Bruce Willis...

She reached out and rubs his name...

I am crying right now...

[Clintmax]

11. "Mr. Holland's Opus" during the song scene when he sings "Beautiful Boy"..

And then again at the end when they have the assembly to honor Mr. Holland.

"...Did you ever know that you're my heroooo..." by Bette Midler. The make you cry song of the universe.

[SeattleGirl]

12. I love that movie.

Just watched it again last night! "Beautiful Boy" gets me every time!

[Strong Atheist]

13. The book "Emergence", by David R. Palmer nt.

[Throckmorton]

14. Hoilday

By the Bee Gees.

[LSK]

15. Jewel - you were meant for me

It was popular during a bad time for me. I avoided it for a long time.

[jobycom]

16. That one slays me, still. Her first CD was full of songs like that.

Listen to Adrian, or Painters. That whole CD worked for me.

[Left Is Write]

17. I've said it before and I'll say it again...

Fried Green Tomatoes. Every single time.

Also - and this is really sappy - The Outsiders, the book and the movie. No matter how many times I read the book or how many times I see the movie, I always cry when Johnny dies. Always.

Someone mentioned Where The Red Fern Grows the other day; that one goes for me too.

I don't always cry when Colonel Blake dies, but I always, always get choked up on the last episode of MASH when Hawkeye is reliving the scene with the woman and her "chicken."

[VaYallaDawg]

22. You took the words right off my keyboard!

I was on the train while reading Fried Green Tomatoes, got to the end and just broke out bawling like a baby. Everybody else probably thought I was totally nuts (well, I actually am, but usually don't show it quite that openly).

[jobycom]

18. "A grave for Fireflies," "Seasons in the Sun," "Total Eclipse of the Heart

Are movies and songs that get to me. I've never been able to watch "A Grave for Fireflies" a second time. I hurt too much after once. No movie has ever done that to me before or since.

"Seasons in the Sun" is corny, but it reminds me of a sad moment in my childhood.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

19. Anything involving some sort of noble sacrifice gets me

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings really got to me when I read them as a child.

Most recently, I bawled fairly solidly through the last half hour of Hotel Rwanda.

[Shell Beau]

21. Hotel Rwanda was a toughie! It was so tragic!

:cry:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

33. I was pretty good up until the scene where he's tieing his tie

And I completely lost it during that scene.

And then the floodgates had been opened. I was pretty much a wreck after that part.

[Shell Beau]

34. Yeah, I know what you mean. And when they were riding

back on that morning when it was so foggy and bumpy. And they realized they were riding over dead bodies! :cry:

[rockymountaindem]

35. Never read For Whom the Bell Tolls, then

It was both beautiful and tragic.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

37. Too late

I read it in high school.

And you're right on both counts.

[Shell Beau]

20. Movies

I cried in:
Schindler's List
Homeward Bound (I know, I know)
Hotel Rwanda
Closer (don't know why)
Shawshank Redemption (when Brookes kills himself)
21 Grams
When a Man Loves a Woman

to name a few!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. Fuck! "In the Living Years" always makes me sad!

:cry::cry:

Great song, though :D

[SeattleGirl]

27. It makes me cry,

because I always think of my relationship with my dad. Fortunately, though, we resolved a lot of things before he died. :cry:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

31. Glad to hear it

:D :D

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. "honey" Everytime...laugh all you want. My family does too.

[WindRavenX]

29. by Moby??

Or is there a different "Honey" you are referring to?

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Different one, by Bobby Goldsboro...

Honey
Bobby Goldsboro




See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
Then the first snow came
And she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart
Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin' late
'Cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'
Over some sad and silly late, late show

And honey, I miss you
And I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you
If only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly
And caught her cryin' needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early Spring
When flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away

And honey, I miss you
And I'm bein' good
And I'd love to be with you
If only I could

One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of Honey
And I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life's an empty stage
Where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead
And cries down on the flower bed
That Honey loved

And see the tree how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
And I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

[Kashka-Kat]

25. Edith died???! Oh NO!!

I didn't know that.

I cried buckets at end of "the Joy LUck club"-- when the mother abandons her 2 babies. I cried buckets during the PBS show last week about abandoned pets in New Orleans some which were reunited with their owners--and some not. Guess that's one of my major themes I respond to.

[Left Is Write]

28. Who here cried when Goose died?

I'm guilty of doing so.

[jrandom421]

32. Some of the stuff that made me cry

The West Wing espisode about the funeral for a homeless Korean War Vet.

The scenes in "We Were Soldiers", where the wives take it upon themselves to deliver the "with deepest regrets" telegrams.

"Mr. Tanner" by Harry Chapin

The final scene in "Death of a Salesman".

"Mother of a Miner's Child" by Gordon Lightfoot

"Music of the Night" by Michael Crawford

Final scene in "Saving Private Ryan"

[huskerlaw]

36. My most recent...

Angel's funeral and the fight in the cemetary...Rent.