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<p>I’m starting another thread for chick flicks…they are NOT all tear jerkers!!!</p>
<p>“Four Weddings and a Funeral” definitely qualifies as funny/sad. </p>
<p>Add “Green Card” to your list for the summer.</p>
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<p>Yes, definitely. Netflix describes it as “Romantic, Witty.”</p>
<p>“Love, Actually” (which some have listed as a tear-jerker on this thread) is also funny/sad. The whole Prime Minister Hugh Grant story line is great, but I especially like the carolling scene…</p>
<p>The ultimate chick flick is the BBC Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth. Six hours of perfection, though you can squeeze it down to 2-3 hours if you just fast-forward to all of the Mr Darcy scenes. 
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<p>Feel-good weepies: October Sky and Billy Elliott. The first time I saw October Sky was on a plane, and I disgraced myself badly. In Pixar’s Ratatouille, every time that Anton Ego tastes the eponymous dish, it’s a total weepy for me and the spouse.</p>
<p>I am with emeraldkitty on Sophie’s Choice, that movie is way to hard for any parent to watch. I think one of my my first tearjerkers was Splendor in the Grass, seen at a time I was going through a long high school break-up. I saw it years later with my D and did not have nearly the same reaction. Of course there were Bambi and Old Yeller, but they both traumatized me as a child and I would not let my kids watch them. Most recent good one was Toy Story III, since my D was the same age as Andy and we went through all the movies together. I saw it with her right before she left for college.</p>
<p>Of the sad movies I mentioned, I’d still recommend the Chinese movie Not One Less.
It has some funny (and also sad) characters and situations, and a happy ending. Summary:
A not-so-bright 13yo girl is put in charge of a poor rural elementary school when the teacher has to leave for a month. The teacher tells the girl she won’t get paid if any of the 28 students are missing when he returns. Sure enough, one little boy goes off to the big city to try to earn money for his family. The teenage “teacher” follows him there and makes every effort to find him.<br>
How Green Was My Valley is also very good, (won Best Picture in 1941) but some modern viewers find it too sappy and sentimental. It is a memoir of a Welsh mining family in the late 19th/early 20th century. </p>
<p>I have to admit, I HATED Four Weddings and a Funeral. Just thought it was dumb. (IMO Andie McDowell is the worst actress ever.) </p>
<p>My favorite chick flick would be Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet).</p>
<p>^^^ I felt the same way about Four Weddings and a Funeral - though Sense and Sensibility follows closely behind it on the overall dislike factor.</p>
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<p>Could not agree with you more, though I didn’t dislike the film because I like Hugh Grant.
Andie McDowell always seems so stilted, I’m surprised she has been cast in so many movies. Never understood her appeal. And I usually don’t have strong reaction to actors - though some are obviously much more talented than others.</p>
<p>I just watched one over the weekend that left me sobbing…Hachi A Dog’s Tale w/Richard Gere. OMG. I couldn’t even explain the movie to DH when he came into the house and wanted to know why my eyes were so puffy. </p>
<p>My list of tearjerkers:
Toy Story 3 - who would think a animated film would make you cry.
Brian’s Song
Marley & Me
Into the Wild
Keith
The Last Song</p>
<p>We have the Netflix streaming, too. Play it through the kids’ Wii.</p>
<p>Another source for movies in our community: our public library. They have an amazing collection, plus since I’m so far behind in movies I usually don’t have any problem getting ones I haven’t seen. Where we live we can check them out for 3 weeks and renew them online if no one else has requested it.</p>
<p>A relatively unknown movie I absolutely love: Lars and the Real Girl. There are parts where I always cry; but it’s a very sweet/funny movie.</p>
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<p>Lars and the Real Girl - Yes! :)</p>
<p>Life is Beautiful
Sophie’s Choice
Brian’s Song
Terms of Endearment
Beaches
The Piano
My Girl
Forest Gump
Stepmom
Steel Magnolias
Kramer vs. Kramer
Lorenzo’s Oil
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest</p>
<p>Titanic :(</p>
<p>Madame X</p>
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<p>An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman</p>
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<p>I have to say that Terms of Endearment was the saddest movie I ever watched…the part where Emma says goodbye to her children , brings out the waterworks with me. I have never been comfortable crying in public , and this was close to the only film that brought me to tears</p>
<p>An Affair to Remember (well, at least until the very end)
Casablanca of course</p>
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<p>I just finished watching this again, and I had forgotten that it’s a tear-jerker movie. That moment always gets me as well. Also, when Sam wills Frodo not to fall into the fire: “Don’t you let go!” And of course, the scene where Frodo leaves with the elves. In fact, I keep kleenex handy for pretty much the entire last hour of the movie.</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one has mentioned:
Saving Private Ryan! I cried my eyes out specially at the end “tell me I have lead a good life…”</p>