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The most tear jerking scenes in TV and film are...

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nobigotsallowed · 04/10/2019 15:21

SPOILER ALERT

ET: The bathroom scene, where ET and Elliot are on the floor and Elliot gets taken away, with ET screaming for him to come back 😢😢 And of course when ET is found all grey and dying in the water, then when he temporarily dies and obviously the ending 😭

Forest Gump: When nobody lets young Forest sit down on the bus and then he sees Jenny for the first time 😥 When Jenny dies "Every night we read a book and he's so smart Jenny. You'd be so proud of him" 😭😭😭

Atonement: The ending, when Bryony explains the reality 😢

Theory of Everything: The croquet scene. There's no dialogue, but it's heart breaking. When Stephen has had his operation and can no longer talk. The look they give one another 💔 Also when Jane breaks up with Stephen "I have loved you. I did my best" and he just looks broken and they cry together 😢

The Reader: When Michael sees Hannah in court and realises she's actually illiterate after she refuses to give a sample of her hand writing and then her sentence. When Hannah hears Michael's voice on the recorder and of course the ending 😭😭😭

I have so many more, including Disney and Pixar Blush but I'd be here all day!

Over to you...

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Windydaysuponus · 04/10/2019 15:25

Green Mile when they realise he didn't kill the 2 little girls.

OlderthenYoungerNow · 04/10/2019 15:27

In the Royale family when Barbara and her mum sing Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be. Even thinking about it now gets me

AllTheWhoresOfMalta · 04/10/2019 15:30

I was very moved by the final scene of the fifth episode of this final season of Orange is the New Black SPOILER the image of Maritza just fading away with the other women as she became just one more of the dissapeared was haunting.

nobigotsallowed · 04/10/2019 15:31

@OlderthanYoungerNow, yes...agreed.

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FreshwaterBay · 04/10/2019 15:32

Hannah in English Patient. When she is about to inject a morphine overdose into her patient.

Lllot5 · 04/10/2019 15:33

I must be hard hearted but I never cry at films or tv.

MadisonAvenue · 04/10/2019 15:34

The end of Marley and Me.

SnugglySnerd · 04/10/2019 15:34

"Daddy, my Daddy" at the end of the Railway Children. Gets me every single time.

peachgreen · 04/10/2019 15:41

The final 10 minutes of Six Feet Under.

nobigotsallowed · 04/10/2019 15:42

@SnugglySnerd, I've never seen that, but I've heard that line so many times when people are talking about tear jerkers.

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RobertSmithdoesmyhair · 04/10/2019 15:43

Not a film, but The Royle Family when Caroline Quentin is on the bathroom floor with her dad, going into labour.

SnugglySnerd · 04/10/2019 15:43

You should definitely watch it. It's a really lovely film.

sunshineandshowers21 · 04/10/2019 15:43

everything makes me cry so there’s too many to name! i watched goodnight mister tom with my son yesterday though and i was bawling at the ending with william riding his bike and calling tom dad 😭

Trewser · 04/10/2019 15:45

Jessie's song in Toy Story 2

maldivemoment · 04/10/2019 15:47

It’s got to be ‘that’ scene from Sophie’s Choice...

Nonstopbuttmachine · 04/10/2019 15:48

Oh god, the Queen of Sheba episode? 😢 I'm crying now thinking about it, what an amazing piece of writing and acting. And poor Caroline Aherne, she was a true genius Sad

TeenPlusTwenties · 04/10/2019 15:49

The opening to Up.
You expect ends of some films to be tear jerking, but not openings.

pelirocco123 · 04/10/2019 15:50

The christening song in mam Mia 2
and Mama Mia 1 , Slipping through my fingers

I cry at a lot of films, and books

changedname3243 · 04/10/2019 15:50

Still Game’s final scenes . My granda was the double of Jack and died June 2016 . I watched Still Game in bed at 3am , full of the cold and I sobbed for an hour when they all faded away one by one .

Carrie’s War was another when I was 11 or so , when it cuts to Carrie at the end - ‘all dead, and it was all my fault ..’

everywhichway · 04/10/2019 15:52

Final few minutes of Brief Encounter.

nobigotsallowed · 04/10/2019 15:52

@RobertSmithdoesmyhair yes, that scene always gets me.

@maldivemoment, I think that probably wins so far.

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Gonegrey31 · 04/10/2019 15:52

I’ve never been able to watch Sophie’s Choice again after “that” scene.

FrowningFlamingo · 04/10/2019 15:53

My Girl - the funeral where she says he can’t see without his glasses. My husband only needs to say the line and I well up. This is possibly a little bit outing unless others are similarly afflicted...

Bellringer · 04/10/2019 15:53

Jude the obscure, because we are too many.

Somuchroom · 04/10/2019 15:54

Harry Potter, Cedric diggory, his father shouting “That’s my son! That’s my boy!”

My heart can’t cope, I’m welling up just thinking of it. Sad

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