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To ask what movie scene never fails to make you cry even after numerous watches

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CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 11:22

I’m watching Moana with the kids today, for the billionth time (I don’t mind as I love the film) and no matter how hard I try I always cry at the scene where the grandma tells Moana to go and find Maui, then she’s dies and her spirit fish swims into the sea and above Moana. You’d think I would be immune to it by now, but no!

What makes you cry every time?

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coldcuptea · 06/10/2017 22:31

When robin Williams pleads with the judge to let him see his children in Mrs doubfire . .

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 22:31

LetsGoFlyAKiteee your username has reminded me of another scene I always tear up at - the Lets Go Fly a Kite scene I’m Saving Mr Banks, when she dances with the producer and says “he’s fixes the kite” while crying 😭😭😭

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pp2017 · 06/10/2017 22:37

@TipsNotHacks

Several SATC Charlotte scenes for me !!

  • Ditto the one with the photo of the baby
  • When she realises she loves Harry😍
  • When they're bundling Carrie into the wedding car after being stood up and she just points at Mr Big and gives him that look while hugging Carrie
tigercub50 · 06/10/2017 22:37

Yes to “ Daddy oh my Daddy” - filling up just typing it! The end of “ The Sound of Music” when they are walking across the mountain. Absolutely howl in Lassie movies (excuse the expression!), especially as we used to have a collie. I cry such a lot generally & not just at sad stuff but when something is really good. DH & I went to the stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang & I was in floods of tears because it was just so well done.

tigercub50 · 06/10/2017 22:39

“ Feed the Birds” scene in Mary Poppins & “ Hushabye Mountain” in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

pp2017 · 06/10/2017 22:42

When Mr Magirium is saying goodbye to the shop and giving it a "pep talk" waaaaaaaaaaa 😭😭😭😭😭

melisma · 06/10/2017 22:43

Oh my goodness this thread!
For me-Big Fish. I don't think I have EVER cried so much at the ending of a film. Went to see it with exBF and remember just burying my head in his shoulder and utterly sobbing.
Also Shawshank Redemption-for me it is the bit with the old guy who has been in prison forever and cannot deal with life on the outside. Gets me every time.
And a PP mentioned Melancholia. I really cried at this one. For me I was a relatively new mum when I watched it, and the panic that Charlotte Gainsbourg's character showed in the face of imminent death-oh God, I really got it. It makes me well up thinking about it. Great film.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 06/10/2017 22:43

Haven't RTFT so may have been mentioned, but the bit in beaches when Bette Midler says she has a long memory and Barbara Hershey says 'I'm counting on it', they are at the beach house Sad

pp2017 · 06/10/2017 22:43

The last ever episode of Friends!!

The first time I lasted til they put the keys on the counter but now I literally cry all the way through because I know what's coming

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 06/10/2017 22:48

ET on the riverbank close to death 😭 and then the rest of the film I'm crying

Terms of Endearment when she says goodbye to her children it's painful to watch

Changeling the end scene floored me I sobbed and sobbed

Shawshank Redemption when Brooks kills himself

Leaving Las Vegas from the time Ben and Sera on their first meeting in the hotel room you know it's doomed it's like watching a car crash in slow motion and I cry most of my way through the film

missmapp · 06/10/2017 22:49

Feed the birds always made me cry as a child !

She's having a baby- whenshe is rushed into theatre and he is waiting , the kate bush song 'woman's work' is perfect.

ZanyMobster · 06/10/2017 22:51

I cry at everything, I am dreadful. Worst ones for me are Ghost, Untamed Heart (a bit like pp2017 I cry all through because I know what is going to happen now), Me Before You, Love Actually, ET, I could go on all night. I remember the first film I cried at, I was about 8 and it was called Go Toward the Light with Linda Hamilton and Richard Thomas. I found it so sad. I will think of hundreds more in a minute.

I cry at so many episodes of Friends it's ridiculous.

BaggypantsCrimplesnitch · 06/10/2017 22:52

I remember going to see a film with my Mum - I don't remember the title, but it was about a little girl dying of leukaemia, and they got the owner of a fairground to open it up just for her so she could have a ride. My god, the whole cinema was awash.

And the Green Mile - "I'm sorry for what I am." Nooooo! You shouldn't be apologising!!

Tigersteeth · 06/10/2017 22:53

The first film that ever made me cry was Santa Claus The Movie, when Patch the Elf left the North Pole...
Now, it's when Rapunzel''s parents let their lantern go, still hoping to find her after all these years.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 06/10/2017 22:55

How could I forget Lion when he is lost, the not so nice woman, his adopted mum telling him that she could have children she choose not to, when his brother first arrived and of course the ending it's the most amazing film

Watership Down I actually don't remember much of the film thankfully but I do remember a cinema full of children sobbing that sad feeling has really stayed with me as I can't listen to Bright Eyes without feeling terribly sad and teary

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 23:01

Yes to Lion. The bit that got me was when he realised his brother had died. And when he called his adoptive mother to tell her his birth mother says thank you for raising him 😭

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DeadButDelicious · 06/10/2017 23:02

Bicentennial Man. I can't watch it. I'm in bits by the end.

T00ManyB00ks · 06/10/2017 23:05

Railway Children
Daddy...oh my daddy!

Every. Time.

Mablethorpe · 06/10/2017 23:06

The bit in ‘The Help’ when Mae Mobley is at the world sow screaming for Aibileen to gone back makes me sob.

Also when Shelby collapses in the back porch in Steel Magnolias and her husband comes home to find their son screaming in fear and her on the floor.

Mablethorpe · 06/10/2017 23:07

Sorry, Mae is at the window screaming.

StrawberryFizBomb · 06/10/2017 23:07

The scene is sense and sensibility when Marianne is very ill and the doctor tells Elinor to prepare for the worse and Elinor holds Mariannes hand and says to her "please, please try Marianne, I cannot do without you" 😢

QuitMoaning · 06/10/2017 23:08

Eight Below anyone.
Watched it again last weekend and simply sobbed.

ZanyMobster · 06/10/2017 23:10

Agree with a pp re Sixth Sense, the bit in the traffic jam gets me every time, I felt choked up reading it. Philadelphia too.

Specific bit in Ghost that completely breaks me for the first time is when Oda-Mae says to Molly 'Sam said to tell you he loves you' she says 'Sam would never say that' 'He says tell her ditto'. I lose it completely!

Labtest7 · 06/10/2017 23:11

The Champ. Absolutely heartbreaking when Billy dies and TJ is trying to wake him up.

MyLittleDragon · 06/10/2017 23:12

Moana - but the bit where Moana walks across the ocean to the fire breathing creature and puts her head against its head. I think it's the music that gets me too!

Dumbo - when Mrs Jumbo rocks Dumbo through the bars and he cries, to Baby Mine. Ohh I sob at that!

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