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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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notacooldad · 06/10/2017 12:20

There is a scene in Barney's version where in he past he had cheated on his wife and they had divorced. Years later they are alone together and Barney's mind is failing and he thinks he is still at a happy point in his life and his now adult children are still little kids and he is still happily married. His ex wife knows it's the dementia and gets upset. He asks why is she crying, hadn't he he told herr that he loved her enough time that day? It's heartbreaking, especially if you know someone with this condiy whose current memories are all in the past.

Gets me everytime!

BanjoPier · 06/10/2017 12:20

It's a Wonderful Life

Clarence: Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine.

George Bailey: That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport!

Clarence: Every man on that transport died. Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry.

Also Shelby's funeral in Steel Magnolia's. Anything to do with losing children whether as youngsters or as adults has me in bits.

M'Lynn: I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.

Terms of Endearment

"I don't see why she has to have this pain....It's time for her shot, do you understand? Do something...My daughter is in pain! Give her the shot, do you understand me? GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!!"

MissionItsPossible · 06/10/2017 12:20

The Lion King for me although not the part that everyone finds upsetting (Mufasa's death) but a bit at the end: It's just after Simba has defeated Scar and he has to climb up the rock to address all the animals. The music is playing dramatically in the background and there's this one part where there's a look of doubt on his face like he can't do it, when he hears Mufasa say "Remember". It gets me every single time.

Muriel's Wedding is pretty weepy too throughout.

The ending of Toy Story 3. When the little girl goes to grab Woody and Andy pulls him back because he doesn't want to let go of his childhood. Sad

SparklyMagpie · 06/10/2017 12:20

Oh and also Bicentennial Man Sad the bit where they are both lay in the hospital beds as she's about to die :'(

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 12:21

Forrest Hump should not be watched with children present

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WhooooAmI24601 · 06/10/2017 12:21

Charlotte after years of infertility failure receives a photo of a baby from China who she has been placed with. She looks at her and says to Harry that she just knows this is it and "this is our baby"

This! And the episode in Series 6 where it's Brady's first birthday and Charlotte appears at the end dressed like Liz Taylor (in the good years) and powers through to be there for her friend, those two always make me cry.

The bit In The Good Dinosaur where Arlo and Spot show one another their families with the rocks.

The bit in Tinkerbell and the Neverbeast where he goes to sleep for 1000 years kills me.

The scene at the end of Jack where Robin Williams makes his speech "I got it, Eric. I'm cool... I don't have very much time these days so I'll make it quick. Like my life. You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry , thinking, "What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna be in ten years?" But I say to you, "Hey, look at me!" Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did. I made it, Mom. I'm a grown up."

I'm crying just reading that, it's so beautiful.

The cemetery scene in Steel Magnolias where Sally Field has her meltdown.

The scenes in the final Harry Potter where the teachers all go outside to strengthen the school's defences and you see a sort of orb building around Hogwarts, and when Snape cries his memories for Harry and you see that "after all this time?...always" moment and realise just how far Snape went to show his love for Lily.

The majority of Seven Pounds makes me cry, too. Will Smith is incredible in it.

Need to stop crying now.

SquareWord · 06/10/2017 12:22

The final scene of The Champ when he is dead but TJ is telling him to wake up. Such fantastic acting and it makes me bawl!

TieGrr · 06/10/2017 12:23

The 'it's not your fault' scene in Good Will Hunting. Destroys me every single time.

ThereIsIron · 06/10/2017 12:24

The bit where Andie McDowell and Hugh Grant don't realise it's raining Grin

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 06/10/2017 12:24

I thought SATC had some very poignant moments. Miranda’s mother’s funeral when she’s walking back down the aisle alone and the girls join her really got to me. And then you see Steve and Aidan came to support her

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SparklyMagpie · 06/10/2017 12:25

Don't know why Forest came up with two R's Confused

GandolfBold · 06/10/2017 12:25

The part in Frozen where Anna is singing 'do you wanna build a snowman', and she sings ' we only have each other, its just you and me, what are we gonna do'

I am tearing up just writing it.

user1492507733 · 06/10/2017 12:26

Daddy, my daddy! Final scene in the Railway Children. Gets me every time.

WhooooAmI24601 · 06/10/2017 12:26

Also, Its a Wonderful Life. The whole thing is just perfect but when George Bailey says "attaboy Clarence" is my favourite.

Mummyoflittledragon · 06/10/2017 12:26

ET. Pretty much the whole thing has me blubbing on and off.
Homeward Bound. When Shadow makes it home.
Marley and Me. Yes, I know the scene.
Lion King. Where Simbas dad dies.

Yes, my 9yo dd looks at me and asks me why I’m crying in front of films. I now know what to respond “Would you like to watch The Good Dinosaur my love?” That’s her trigger and she has refused to watch it again after crying almost the whole way through. And I cried at the scene where daddy’s gone too.

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Astella22 · 06/10/2017 12:26

Another vote here for when Mufasa dies in the Lion King and Simba is trying to wake him up, I tear up every time.

ConciseandNice · 06/10/2017 12:30

The Color Purple. All of it, but especially the ending.

Also Dancer In The Dark, when she is hanged for murder unfairly and she doesn't fight it so that her son gets the treatment he needs.

Coconutspongexo · 06/10/2017 12:30

The beginning of up.
Robert De Niros final scene on New Years Eve
The end of The Notebook
These all remind me of my grandparents
Oh and the titanic when you see the old couple cuddling in the bed Sad

When I was younger I used to sob everytime I watched Beauty and the Beast where he transforms into a human because I wanted him to stay a beast

battenbergbutterfly · 06/10/2017 12:32

Bridges of Madison County - where she’s in the car with her husband and Robert is in front at the lights and if she doesn’t open the car and get out she knows she’ll never see him again.

The Way We Were - when they bump into each other at the end.

Opheliasgoldenwine · 06/10/2017 12:32

In The Help, at the end when that girl’s crying for her after she leaves and she can’t go back 😢

Goodnight Mister Tom when he said he was calling for him but he didn’t come and his baby sister is dead 😢 that’s the worst one for me.

Coconutspongexo · 06/10/2017 12:32

Because Forrest Gump is two Rs

JAPAB · 06/10/2017 12:33

Didn't make me cry but there is an emotional scene in The Other Woman with Natalie Porter that springs to mind. She has been carrying around a guilt that she caused the death of her baby, but when the autopsy report is explained to her she learns that it was natural causes, and not her fault after all.

Raahh · 06/10/2017 12:33

The end of the 'The Elephant man' where he lies down to sleep, knowing that that will kill him.

And I cry every time - and yell- 'DON'T LIE DOWN!!!' at the screen Sad.

mirime · 06/10/2017 12:34

Grave of the Fireflies. The entire film is heartbreaking.

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