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If you haven’t found yourself in hysterical tears at at least one of these scenes, you are a robot that was sent back in time to kill us all.
Terms of Endearment (1983) – You cut me real deep, Terms of Endearment. It’s been a long time but I’ll never forget little Huckleberry Fox’s face as he leaves his mother in the hospital bed.
Boys Don’t Cry (1999) – In what I think is one of Hilary Swank’s finest acting moments, Brandon Teena relays the horrible crimes that he endured. I think this moment is so emotionally charged because the character of Brandon is not only reliving the hell he experienced, but also the truths of the gender dysphoria he’s battled with for so long.
Sophies Choice (1982) – The scene in which Meryl Streep’s Sophie makes that inconceivable ‘choice’ will haunt me forever.
Brokeback Mountain (2005) – “Jack I swear” … what a moment. Heath Ledger creates such an envoking performance in the few seconds where Ennis remembers Jack. What that very sentence means will always be a mystery, but that’s the beauty of it.
Silence of the Lambs (1991) – When Clarice Starling tells Lecter about her haunting memories of experiencing the screaming lambs as a child, her face fills the frame and the tears brim in her eyes. The camera intrusively lingers, creating a very uncomfortably up-close-and-personal moment between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter.
What movie crying moment cut you the deepest?
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Matthew McConaughey watching the tapes of his kids grown up in Interstellar really got me man.
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I did consider that one! It’s up there with the tearjerkers
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I think I am Sam is full of heart wrenching moments..
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Oh you’re definitely right there! I’ll need to watch that film again, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it!
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All in your list until Silence of the Lambs, I think I’ve only seen that film once many years ago maybe I should give it another watch!
Bridges of Madison County is one of my worst for crying!
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Definitely give that one another watch. Oh my, I haven’t seen Bridges of Madison County – watch this space! Thanks for reading
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Oh I certainly will. Meryl Steep and Clint Eastwood incase you need anymore reasons to watch it.
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I’m the worst for crying watching movies.
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I would say that the death of Mufasa in The Lion King is a heart wrenching moment.
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Oh god, I agree. There’s some really heart wrenching moments in Disney films. What about the death of Bambi’s mum?
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The death of Bambi’s mum is traumatic too, but I remember The Lion King more vividly.
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I cried myself silly with Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) and A Walk to Remember (the book got me even more yet I read the night through)
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The film that played havoc with my tear ducts was oddly one that was made so much more intense by a mother’s inability to tell her deceased son’s girlfriend that he had died. Juliette Binoche’s performance in The Wait went deeper than tears; here’s how I saw it at https://cinemusefilms.com/2016/06/27/the-wait-lattesa-2016/
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It’s impossible not to get all choked up several times in It’s A Wonderful Life.
As a huge Superman fan when I was a nipper, I CLD NOT WATCH th scene (in th 1978 original) where Clark Kent has to leave th family farm to try and make it in th big city – I thot: Oh no! I WILL HAVE TO DO THAT MYSELF 1 DAY! But I ended up in uni on the other side of th country, and a job on the other side of th world; so, no worries!
See if u can get thro this:
https://bradscribe.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/pure-imagination-a-lament/
How about 5-most-side-splittinly-hilarious-moments?
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It’s A Wonderful Life is one hell of a tearjerker right there!
And heheh re: the Superman moment, that’s not one that initially springs to mind but go you for bringing that to the table!
Hilarious moments in the movies needs to be done!
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Incredibly personal choice, u see
And yes, hilarious moments asap!
Certainly cld do w plenty of them right now!
Cheers!
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