In that Keri Russell movie 'Waitress' - she hated being pregnant with her jerk of a husband's baby - then when she has the baby, she takes one look at the baby and is totally enamored. She says, 'Oh... my... God.... Oh... my... God... We are going to have so... much... fun.'
Knowing what that's like to want to give everything to your baby in arms - makes me ball every time!

Then, oh my goodness, at the end of the film, when Keri Russell is walking down the road with the little girl - that's the director's (Adrienne Shelley)'s toddler daughter. Adrienne Shelley was murdered right when the moviie was released. So, so sad.

Similarly, not a movie, but at the end of LOST, when Jack sees his father in heaven (or whatever it is) and Jack is trying understand where he is and why all of the people have gathered together.
Jack says, 'why are they here now?' and his father replies, 'there is no now here.'

My mother had just died when this season was wrapping up. Ugh, the hope I put into that scene at a time of such vunerability will always stick with me.

Not a movie, but in the West Wing, the first season's Christmas episode, where Mrs. Landingham is telling Charlie about why she doesn't celebrate Christmas because her sons died during a firefight in Vietnam on Christmas, and she tells him "and it's hard, you know, because I'm sure they were scared, and that's when a son really needs his mom, and I wasn't there..."

Anonymous wrote:Sophie's Choice - Dear god, that one made me not want to have more than 1 kid. Seriously, I sitll sometimes think about the horror of that scene.

I never saw the movie, but read the book without knowing what choice the title referred to, and when I got to that chapter I almost fainted with sadness. And that was before I had kids. I can never bring myself now to watch the movie or pick up the book again. Horrible. My family is from czechoslovakia and my grandfather's parents and 5 brothers and sisters died in a concentration camp, so I try to stay away from all holocaust movies/books in general. Some of you have mentioned Sarah's Key, and after I read the review of the book I knew I could never read it, nor see the movie. I did see Life is Beautiful and regretted it. Same with the Pianist and Schindler's List. I actually went to see Schindler's List in the theater and couldn't get up afterward.

Just want to say--great thread--I need a movie catharsis this week.

Agree with the Borat hilarity, good call PP!

But, as for the tearjerkers -

My Girl - when Veda talks about Macaulay Culkin.

Rudy - when he finally gets in the game and the crowd shouts his name.

Castaway - when Tom Hanks is rescued and visits Helen Hunt and she has to say goodbye again.

Into the Wild - when Hal Holbrook asks Emile to be his grandson.

Kite Runner - I think we all know the scene.

PSA announcement - do not participate in this thread while pregnant. I am crying just thinking about those scenes...

Color Purple - end scene with Shug Avery and her father (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5uPZzBr5c)

Good Will Hunting - when Robin Williams tells Matt Damon that "it's not your fault".

PP here: also, the scene in Amelie where she helps the blind man across the street and described to him everything she can see and then leaves him, electrified, seeing it all in his head.

Anne of Green Gables miniseries, when the little girl says so casually, "Did you hear, Anne, that Gilbert Blythe is dying?"

The ending of GWTW makes me feel frantic for them. I almost can't watch it.

The scene in Borat where he wrestles with his manager through the convention center. I wet myself.

I remember as a kid, just bawling at The Champ (why did my parents let me see that), when Ricky Schroeder keeps yelling for his dad to wake up. Ugh.

Love Actually: When that cute little boy finally gets to see the girl at the airport and holds up the #1 sign and runs into Liam Neeson's arms.

Sommersby and Braveheart: both the last scenes where the main character is dying. Awful but beautiful.

American Pie: Perhaps it was just because I was in a silly mood, but I was literally on the floor dying of laughter when Eugene Levy caught his son masterbating with the pie. I have NEVER laughted that hard at a movie. I saw it again a couple of years later at home, and didn't have the same reaction. I think it had something to do with just the entire audience rolling on the floor.

Anonymous wrote:Up - The montage of images of Carl's and Elaine's life together

Bridges of Madison County - The scene in the pick-up truck, when Francesca is grasping the door handle and contemplating...

Return to Me - When he collapses and cries in the foyer

The Green Mile - Electrocution scenes and when the woman recovers from cancer

Oh yeah. I totally bawl out loud during Up.

Up - The montage of images of Carl's and Elaine's life together

Bridges of Madison County - The scene in the pick-up truck, when Francesca is grasping the door handle and contemplating...

Return to Me - When he collapses and cries in the foyer

The Green Mile - Electrocution scenes and when the woman recovers from cancer

Saving Private Ryan, when the man cries for his mother as he is dying...
(I first saw that when I was 9 months pregnant with my first son...my husband is a Marine and it was on TV...I cried so hard I choked...I was so ANGRY with him for letting me see that...later, he told me that during training, when they watched the movie for a class, a female officer completely lost it during that same part...)

West Side Story, when Tony dies...

Titanic, when the immigrant mother tucks her children in, and when the father puts his family in a lifeboat and says, "Only for a little while..."
(In regards to a PP's comment about Rose going straight to Jack in heaven...I felt the same way! What about her family?? I know there is supposed to be no marriage in heaven, but come ON!)

Sophie's Choice (the obvious part)

It's a Wonderful Life, at the end

The Dreamworks animated versions of the Exodus story, and the Joseph story...I cry at multiple parts...

The Passion of the Christ, when Jesus interacts with his mother, Mary

Homeward Bound, in that moment at the end before Shadow (the golden retriever) comes over the hill, when the little boy is saying “oh, he’s an old dog, etc” trying to be so brave, but you can tell he’s just so sad. Then Shadow comes over the hill and the happy ending ensues. I’m tearing up just thinking of it! LOL