Anonymous wrote:"To Kill a Mockingbird": the scene at the courthouse when Jem and Scout are sitting in the balcony with Calpurnia, "Stand up, Miss Scout, your father is passing"

+1

Maybe someone posted these already, two that stick with me:

1.) Precious when she breastfeeds her baby
2.)One of the last scenes in Juno when Juno's Dad tells her she'll have another baby some day, but under different circumstances.

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Anonymous wrote:The scene early on in Stripes when Bill Murray drops the pizza. It always kills me. It's like the whole finality of the bullshittedness of life's existence comes into play in that simple,poetic POV. What does it all mean? Am I simply living to drive a taxi and get dumped on by my superficial girlfriend with great tits? Should I join the army? Go back to school? Buy my own hot dog truck? Where is this journey taking me? I can't talk about it anymore. Verklempt.

You are funny!

Thanks. I also really, really love pizza. When that pie hits the ground face down and he picks it back up and puts it back into the box, I just start bawling like a baby.

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"Bastard out of Carlina"-- both as a book and a movie, are just brutal. It deals with child abuse and it's awful, just awful what this little girl goes through. And what her mother witnesses happening and how the mother STILL chooses to keep the man in her life, even if that means losing her own child.

I agree. Parts of the book upset me so much I had to stop reading for a couple of weeks at one point. It's especially depressing that parts of the book are autobiographical. Dorothy Allison is an amazing writing, which makes the terrible events really come to life.

Anonymous wrote:The scene early on in Stripes when Bill Murray drops the pizza. It always kills me. It's like the whole finality of the bullshittedness of life's existence comes into play in that simple,poetic POV. What does it all mean? Am I simply living to drive a taxi and get dumped on by my superficial girlfriend with great tits? Should I join the army? Go back to school? Buy my own hot dog truck? Where is this journey taking me? I can't talk about it anymore. Verklempt.

You are funny!

"Bastard out of Carlina"-- both as a book and a movie, are just brutal. It deals with child abuse and it's awful, just awful what this little girl goes through. And what her mother witnesses happening and how the mother STILL chooses to keep the man in her life, even if that means losing her own child.

The last episode of "Lost" left me sobbing and still does today.

In "The Joy Luck Club" there are a number of hard moments. In one flashback, a woman remembered how her new husband began to humiliate her-- running around with other women while she is home with their baby. One day she is giving the baby a bath and the man comes home, actually bringing a woman with him and they both laugh at her as they waltz past to the bedroom. And the camera sits on this woman's face and without the camera ever panning down to show it, you know that she's moved her hands and allowed the baby to slip beneath the water. And then her grief as she realizes what she has done.

The scene early on in Stripes when Bill Murray drops the pizza. It always kills me. It's like the whole finality of the bullshittedness of life's existence comes into play in that simple,poetic POV. What does it all mean? Am I simply living to drive a taxi and get dumped on by my superficial girlfriend with great tits? Should I join the army? Go back to school? Buy my own hot dog truck? Where is this journey taking me? I can't talk about it anymore. Verklempt.

The last scene of Wendy and Lucy and the last few scenes of Charlotte's Web. I guess I have a soft spot for animals...

Old Yeller - Cry like a baby

Bastard out of Carolina, I cried so much I hated that movie. I can't watch it anymore.

My sisters keeper

The color purple- the scene where Danny glover is throwing rocks at Netty

Imitation of life

Anonymous wrote:The Immitation of Life. I've watched it so many times and still cry each time. The funeral scence where Sarah Jane asks for forgiveness always has me bawling.

I was surprised no one mentioned this movie. Every time I see it I sob so hard, I hyperventilate.

Schindler's List broke my heart, but at the end when Schindler said," I could have saved so many more...."
I thought I would have to leave the theater. I was crying;it broke my heart.

"To Kill a Mockingbird": the scene at the courthouse when Jem and Scout are sitting in the balcony with Calpurnia, "Stand up, Miss Scout, your father is passing"