Do you remember which movie scenes are tear-jerkers for you?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (226212)
Walnut Creek, California
December 10, 2023 11:57am CST
My mind goes in odd directions when I'm sipping my first cup of coffee. This morning I wound up thinking abut movie scenes that get me choked up. Here are four that come to mind: When the classical musicians are playing and the mom is reading to the children in steerage as the Titanic is sinking in "Titanic;" When the husband and wife die together in The "Noteboook;" When the monkey tells Simba that "he lives in you, referring to Mufasa, in the original "Lion King;" and when Dorie tells Marlin that being near him feels like "home."
That's my short list, and I'm sticking to it. I am sure there are others, but those are the ones that come to mind. Maybe I'll think of others as I brew up my second cup of coffee. If I can find it, I'll attach a Jesse Winchester song that "gets me every time," to quote Elvis Costello. It got Neko Case as well.
Are there certain movie scenes that always get you a bit choked up?
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@celticeagle (173971)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Dec 23
I can agree with the movies you have mentioned. Some animal movie make me choke up. Like the cat and dog that gets lost and some of those. Don't recall the titles.
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@celticeagle (173971)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Dec 23
@TheHorse ........They were sad though.
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@TheHorse (226212)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Dec 23
@celticeagle It's interesting how some of the best movies mix humor with pathos.
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@wolfgirl569 (115601)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Dec 23
@TheHorse Can't believe you never watched Old Yeller growing up. Look it up and watch it.
@TheHorse (226212)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Dec 23
@wolfgirl569 I have heard of it. I don't know why I missed it.
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@RasmaSandra (84651)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Dec 23
Oh, please you are talking to the Queen of Tears. I watch Christmas movies and I am blubbering, Most Old Hollywood movies get me going like Lana Turner in Imitation of Life has a scene with a girl throwing herself over her mother's coffin and I am gone, Beaches got me crying, and on and on I even cried at the end of Dr, Zhivago and I also cried at the beginning. Etc etc etc
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@RasmaSandra (84651)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Dec 23
@TheHorse I have the video of Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. I am a mess by the time Heathcliff finishes talking to Cathy while she is dying and then the thought of their two spirits together climbing the moors. Gets me everytime,
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@TheHorse (226212)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Dec 23
@RasmaSandra I read that book in high school but have never seen the movie.
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@vandana7 (101726)
• India
12 Dec 23
Sophie's choice...I cannot get over that one scene when the mother has to choose between two of her children knowing one of them will die...that one was one of the most painful scene I have ever come across, cried my gut out. Felt depressed too. Whenever I see that one, I cry. Even today. Somehow, I can understand how my mother must have felt when she had to leave me. Thanks to my father. Maybe I relate to it differently than holocaust. In many ways, I feel, I am still yearning for her. I the most logical rational realist pragmatic human being...almost a machine...in truth wanting my mom. Just wanting to hug her once. You are mean...you remind of all sad things in life. There is a sense of inconsolable situation when I think of her. I don't like to revisit areas of my life for which I don't have any solution. Kinda, what is the point... it will only hurt.
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@1creekgirl (43479)
• United States
10 Dec 23
I always loved It's A Wonderful Life...made me cry every time.
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@Deepizzaguy (109393)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Dec 23
The ending of Creed 2 when Rocky Balboa goes to visit his son Robert Junior and when Junior introduces his son Logan to his grandfather and Logan looked like Rocky's deceased wife Adrian, I broke down and cried in the theater since Logan looked a young version of Adrian since I thought about reincarnation for a moment.
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@Shiva49 (27167)
• Singapore
11 Dec 23
I recall a comment by a husband.
" I went through the same health issue followed by surgery and you took it stoically, but I see you in tears watching a TV serial and an actor is involved".
The wife replied "But he is such a nice man, you know".
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@aninditasen (17032)
• Raurkela, India
11 Dec 23
I felt teary when I saw there was misunderstanding between the hero and heroine just because they were in the same profession(singing) in the Hindi film " Abhiman".When I saw the suffering of the heroine in the film "Kora Kagaj".
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@aninditasen (17032)
• Raurkela, India
12 Dec 23
@TheHorse They are Hindi movies. Yes, I liked both the movies.In "Kora kagaj" the couple got a divorce only because of a third person's interference. That made me feel teary.
@LindaOHio (187985)
• United States
11 Dec 23
The one that comes to mind is The Lake House. When Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves finally meet against all odds gets me crying every time. Have a good week.
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