Field of Dreams -- the last scenes, when Kevin Costner and his father "have a catch." Saw it when it first came out, at the Uptown, with my parents when they were visiting.
I was sobbing, my Dad was sniffling, and my Mom said, "you know, that wasn't just about baseball...." No kidding. Can't believe I remember this.

Mississippi Masala -- the last scenes, when the father returns to Uganda, especially the music in the closing market scene. Gets me because his feelings are so raw and exposed, but warm and fulfilling

It's a Wonderful Life -- love it.

On the tear jerker side, Sophie's Choice. And there was a recent concentration camp film with the camp commander's son befriending a prisoner boy -- I can't recall the name. It wrenched my guts out, and when I came upon my husband starting to watch it a few days later, I begged him to turn it off.

The end of Gladiator- I start sobbing like crazy, yet I watch it over and over. I think it's the music.

I have a weird one-Six Sense. At the end of the movie, Haley Joel Osment's character, Cole, is in the car with his mom. He was telling her mom what his grandmother had said to him:

Cole: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask?
Lynn Sear(Cole's mom): Do... Do I make her proud?

I bawled every time when Cole's mom told him what she had asked her mother. DH actually saw me cry at this scene a few times and can't believe I cried every single time.

Fearless (Rosie Perez breaking down because she couldn't hold onto her baby)

Monsters, Inc.

Marley & Me (If you've ever loved a pet)

Prince of Tides (Breakthrough scene)

Mighty Joe Young (He's alive!)

well, all of The Joy Luck Club, but especially the end, where she meets her twin sisters for the first time and they cry with happiness and sadness b/c the twins just learned their mother has died. Sniff.

Ok, this thread just made me have my period after 3 months with it gone. Damn you DCUM *shakes tiny fists*.

When a Man Loves a Woman:

When Andy Garcia says goodbye to his daughters on the playground before leaving/moving to Denver. Especially the older daughter who says something to the effect of he will only be coming to visit because the younger daughter is his (biologically), and he says she is his daughter, and he will always come back for her...

And when Meg Ryan gives her sobriety speech in the end and talks about slapping her daughter, passing out, and not knowing what effect that would have on her daughter.

Anonymous wrote:Oh, Home for the Holidays and The Family Stone

Ahh yes, The Family Stone. An odd little movie I watch every Christmas. The awkward dinner scene makes me tear up and laugh. It's after SJP runs out (after asking why the mom would wish for any of her children to be gay). Diane Keaton throws her fork over to her son's plate to get his attention and signs "I love you." The she looks around the table and says "can someone give me a fork?"

I am completely susceptible to schmaltz and emotional manipulation. So yes, all these, but also... did anyone happen to see the Hallmark movie To Dance With the White Dog? Old man loses his wife, and is terribly sad. The scene where he tries to make biscuits (all the while talking to the white dog who may or may not be the spirit of the dead wife), because she made such good ones... oh dear lord. I think that one may win the top prize for shameless uncontrollable sobbing over a cheesy scene in a cheesy movie.

A River Runs Through it, something about the whole movie.

+1 for Where the Red Fern Grows, as well as Bridge to Terabithia for making this girl cry a bunch in the 4th grade when reading them.

Also, the Remains of the Day gets me all the time, the book and the movie, just the sense of regret in the end on Anthony Hopkins part for waiting so long...

Not to switch genres, but I cannot listen to Harry Chapin's song Cats in the Cradle without bawling. Makes me think of my dad and how he was always gone on business trips when I was a kid. my mom caught me bawling to that when I was like 8 years old in the back of the car one day having listened to it for the first time, and I still can't listen to it.

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.

TV show, the scene in The Wire when Wallace got shot. I'm not a crying at movies/tv shows sort of person, but I cried like a baby.

The end of Blue Valentine when Ryan Gosling is walking away from Michelle Williams and their little girl who is calling for Daddy, Daddy...

Ugh - the whole movie is soooo sad...

Anonymous wrote:Oh, Home for the Holidays and The Family Stone

OMG, that last scene in the Family Stone where they're all gathered around the Christmas tree, and then they pan to that photo..... I totally, totally lose it. That was just on FX or something right before the holidays and I couldn't stop watching (for the 10th time). That movie got bad reviews but I loved it.

Oh, Home for the Holidays and The Family Stone