Tell me the most emotionally charged movie you've ever seen (to stimulate Oytocin!)??

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41w3d. 2 sweeps done. Mucous plug gone. Had the 'clear out'. Getting occasional BH. Induction booked for Sunday.

Apparently, watching an 'emotionally charged' movie can stimulate labour. So something really sad or funny perhaps. Im planning to watch it whilst sitting on a gym ball twiddling my nipples!!!

So I'm interested to know, what's the most emotionally charged movie you've watched? Anything that really made you cry, or laugh etc. Not sure I want to watch a scary film necessarily but willing to try that later with DP.

Obviously I'm scraping the barrel here but I really have tried everything else!

Have I got this right: Queen Latifa in a Steel Magnolias remake?!

That sounds awful...
I have to watch it.

The Time Travellers Wife
My Sisters Keeper
The Green Mile
Marley and Me
Beaches
Toy Story 3
Armageddon

I'm not allowed to watch all the above films when home alone as they upset me too much.

Truly, Madly, Deeply.

I agree with The Green Mile - I've never watched Marley & Me - I'm a huge dog lover and I think it would kill me!!!!

Marley & me. Saddest movie ever.

Or the boy in the striped pyjamas.

Dead Man Walking - an amazing capital punishment film with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon - will make you weep and be furious probably.

The Green Mile - quite upsetting.

Eight Below - about a husky team who are abandoned in Antarctica. Lovely film, but I weep every time I see it.

If you had a yellow lab as a child (as did I) then Marley & Me should get that baby moving. And if it doesn't, nothing will!

Though of some more.

The Blind Side - sad, uplifting, wonderful. Sandra Bullock is excelllent.

Atonement.
The Champ.
Les Miserables.

The first 30 mins of UP had me bawling my eyes out on a plane.
Shadowlands and Terms of Endearment for heart wrenching deaths.

Beaches, it gets me every single time!
Boy in the striped pajamas had me weeping for about an hour, it is absolutely heart wrenching.
Armageddon gets me too, it's definitely a cheeser though!

Scrub the kitchen floor on your hands and knees was the advice given by my midwife to get things going

God yes the start of UP, I always cry loads when the DC put it on. I always think "Oh I know what happens, I won't cry this time" - nope. Total blubfest.

I was going to say I've Loved You So Long which is the film that has made me cry the most, but it's so unbearably sad, don't watch that at this point!

Or a few old episodes of One Born Every Minute, that should get things going!

For laughing, obviously depends on what you like but I would have an evening of Father Ted, IT Crowd or Black Books.

About Time, latest Richard Curtis film, I went to bed still choking back deep sobs!!

Queen Latifah in Steel Magnolias looks amazing. She was the most beautiful, warmest character in 'Secret Life of Bees' so much so that I wanted her as my imaginary mother.

Oh god, Emma Thompson in Love Actually. Forgot about that one.

Yes to Truly Madly Deeply, or Seven Pounds - I cried to the very end of the credits with that one ! Good luck!

Watch lovely birth videos on YouTube. When I was in early labour with DC1, I went to buy some some last minute nappies and stuff in Boots. There was a small singing toy Bagpuss mouse and the cuteness racked up my contractions lots. So maybe watch a favourite childhood film and imagine watching it with your child.

The notebook! Cry every time! Also a great film!

Also Marley & me x

Definitely, definitely the first 20/30 minutes of Up - the most emotive start to a film ever and just so lovely.

Truly Madly Deeply is brilliant. And Pharlap for proper cryability (if you're into horses, probably not so much if you're not)

Jacobs Ladder had me full on howling for a good 30 minutes after the film ended. But it's quite messed up and takes some following - probably not ideal for this stage of pregnancy!

I went to see Insidious late on the night of my due date and woke up in labour the next morning :)

i watched PS I Love You when I was pregnant and cried my eyes out.