<p>The senior year and all activities related to h.s. graduation are completed. </p>
<p>As a stress reducer, I come on to parent cafe and learn neat tidbits, and also to see what other people are up to.</p>
<p>I thought I’d start a thread about “tear jerker” movies, usually the romantic kind. Maybe it’ll give me a reason to have some girlfriends over, each with their own personal box of tissues, and rent a movie!</p>
<p>So, I’ll go first!
My all-time favorite tear jerker movie is: Ghost, starring Patrick Swazye & Demi Moore</p>
<p>Funny you should mention this… I was just switching channels and found Marley and Me. A year ago Mother’s Day I watched it alone (everyone was gone) and bawled my eyes out - my dog at the time was 15 years old and had a lot of health problems. D2, when I talked to her on the phone quipped, “Why on earth are you watching that on Mother’s Day?”</p>
<p>So after recalling this a few minutes ago, I decided NOT to watch Marley and Me. We put our dog down three months ago, and it just so happened that earlier today, I made (what I hope is the last) a trip out to the no-kill shelter to donate the last of my doggie’s stuff. I almost started crying in the car today after I left. Yea, so no Marley and Me - maybe every again!</p>
<p>Mine is not a romantic movie, it’s Field of Dreams. The end gets me every single time. Kevin Costner’s character gets what everyone who has lost a parent young wants – one more game of catch and the chance to see his father as he once was, young and untouched by the cares of life, living his dream. Beautiful.</p>
<p>the movie that always brings tears to my (and my H’s ) eyes is “Return to Me” with Minnie Driver.</p>
<p>There are several parts that just break your heart. </p>
<p>Don’t read any more if you don’t want any spoilers…</p>
<p>When the H returns from the hospital and there’s blood all over his shirt and he collapses by the door. When the dog keeps waiting for his mistress to return home. When Minnie’s character realizes whose heart she received during her transplant. So many tear-jerking parts.</p>
<p>My H and I never ended up watching the end of Marley and Me…once it became apparent that Marley was going to die, we had to turn the DVD off.</p>
<p>I rarely watch any dog movies. Ever since Old Yeller, I haven’t been able to do it. The original Incredible Journey also makes me choke up. So no Marley and me for me! I am even getting to an age where certain commercials get to me.</p>
<p>What Dreams Will Come. My DS and DH laugh at me while I cry. Secretly I know that it’s only so they won’t cry, too! Every time it comes on one or the other of them, or both, will watch it with me through to the end.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it is my favorite - but I remember the first time I saw Splendor in the Grass and I was barely able to function for the next 24 hours. </p>
<p>The Stepmom really gets to me - I lost a friend to cancer and the movie is so hard to watch. </p>
<p>There are others but I am getting so teary just thinking of them.</p>
<p>“The Notebook”. Both the movie and the book make me cry. </p>
<p>But it doesn’t take much to make me well up., My mother and I cried at “ET” - even the second time we saw the movie, when we knew ET was not dead!</p>
<p>Oh, and “Titanic”, “Pearl Harbor”, “City of Angels”.</p>
<p>I love the scene in “Sleepless in Seattle” when the sister is trying to explain “An Affair to Remember” to Tom Hanks, and the two men start carrying on about the sad ending of “The Dirty Dozen”.</p>
<p>Bambi, Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli film), and Camelot (1967 version with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero). I usually start crying when Arthur and Guenevere meet and don’t stop until after the movie is over. The scene with Arthur and the young boy at the end just breaks my heart.</p>
<p>Terms of Endearment–I had ust gotten my dx of Ca, & I couldn’t watch this for years afterwards. Apart from personal connection, the scene where Shirley M begs for pain meds is a stunner.</p>
<p>Will try to see What Deams will Come–sounds good</p>
