Biggest tear-jerker movies-- hand me a kleenex

[JustaMom]

<p>Titanic - specifically the scene where the old man is placing his coat on his wife, and the mother is reading a bedtime story to her children.</p>

<p>I find I pretty much cry at nearly every movie, except for the outright comedies (Blazing Saddles, for example).</p>

[atomom]

<h1>38–The Way We Were? (Redford/Streisand)</h1>

[DrGoogle]

<p>Atomim, thanks that’s the movie.</p>

[bookmama22]

<p>When my d’s were younger we went to see Homeward Bound with my mom and all four of us were sobbing at the ene beyond control.</p>

<p>I agree with so many on this list. If you haven’t see Brian’s Song it has been airing quite a lot on one of the cable stations this summer. </p>

<p>What about Stepmom with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris? That one gets us every time.</p>

[LasMa]

<p>Bookworm, at the end of Les Mis, I also ran out of kleenex and was using my sleeve. </p>

[swimdogmom]

<p>Glad Brokeback Mountain was finally mentioned. (Best.Love.Story. ever)
Can’t even look at the Marley and Me picture without welling up.
Add Finding Nemo - it’s about letting them go and letting them fly (swim) ultimately…</p>

[chocchipcookie]

<p>My all time favorite: Ghost with Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg</p>

[Colorado_mom]

<p>Lots of good movies! My kids tease me because I’ve been known to to get teary at Hallmark commercials. </p>

[Consolation]

<p>Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, Rex Harrison’s death scene in Anna and the King of Siam, the movie of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, A Guy Named Joe with Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne…but they all pale in comparison to:</p>

<p>Dumbo’s mother in jail.</p>

<p>I rest my case.</p>

<p>ETA: The book Where the Red Fern Grows almost killed me. No way would I see the movie. When I was a little kid, I use to read and reread a story in the Reader’s Digest at my grandmother’s house and sob. It involved a dog (the worst ones always do) who waited for his person, a railway man of some kind, every day. He would go down and lie on the tracks, and jump off when the man’s train came. The man died while away on the train, and the dog waited on the tracks every single evening for him to come home for years, until one year he was finally too old and stiff to leap out of the way…WAAH!</p>

<p>Oh, and John Taintor Foote’s story The Look of Eagles. “He gave his racing life for his lady, like the gentleman he was…But death had the heels of him that night… The colt I rode that night was…Torchbearer.”</p>

[GMTplus7]

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When I was a little kid, I use to read and reread a story in the Reader’s Digest at my grandmother’s house and sob. It involved a dog (the worst ones always do) who waited for his person, a railway man of some kind, every day. He would go down and lie on the tracks, and jump off when the man’s train came. The man died while away on the train, and the dog waited on the tracks every single evening for him to come home for years, until one year he was finally too old and stiff to leap out of the way…WAAH!

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<p>There was a real-life dog that did this in Japan (minus the WAAH part). In the railway station they have a statue of the dog :o3
<a href=“Hachiko: The World’s Most Loyal Dog | Gimundo: The Brighter Side”>http://gimundo.com/news/article/hachiko-the-worlds-most-loyal-dog/&lt;/a&gt;

Hachiko: The World’s Most Loyal Dog</p>

<p>Dogs are known for being loyal companions – but we’ve never met any as faithful as Hachiko, an Akita from Japan who spent 10 years waiting for his master.

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[mom2collegekids]

<p>@abasket‌ </p>

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<p>Another “sweet” tears moment in a movie - Parent Trap w/Lindsay Lohan (no, didn’t cry BECAUSE it was her…)- the moment when she tells her mom that she is “Annie”…roll the tears!!! And when Chessie realizes she is “Hallie” - more kleenex!!! </p>

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<p>I always cry at both of those parts. (even more so now that dear Natasha tragically died.)</p>

[atomom]

<p>A movie was made in 2009 about the railway station dog-- Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. Starring Richard Gere. (Just saw part of it on TV a couple weeks ago. . .Too sad to keep watching. Plus, I’m a cat person )</p>

[smdur1970]

<p>I first watched the old Imitation of Life by myself in my college dorm. My pillow was so wet with tears I couldn’t use it for a couple of days.</p>

<p>The first time I recall DH crying in the movies was when (spoiler alert) Sid committed suicide in An Officer and a Gentleman. I did too, and again at the end.</p>

[atomom]

<p>Ordinary People (mention of suicide made me think of this one).</p>

[BalletMom]

<p>Shadowlands, Homeward Bound, Million Dollar Baby, Charlotte’s Web, Terms of Endearment.</p>

[ChoatieMom]

<p>Hatchi</p>

[dyiu13]

<p>For me…</p>

<p>Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009) </p>

<p>Grave of the Fireflies (1988) </p>

<p>House of Sand and Fog (2003)</p>

<p>Sid and Nancy (1986) </p>

<p>Dumbo (1941) </p>

<p>The Iron Giant (1999) </p>

<p>The Way We Were (1973) </p>

<p>Eight Below (2006) </p>

<p>Death and the Maiden (1994) </p>

<p>…just to start. Yep. I see a few trends. </p>

[rom828]

<p>I would not finish watching Eight Below until I asked my D if I could handle the ending. She watched that movie on a class trip in 5th grade. And she said a third of the group were sobbing so hard they had to leave the room. </p>

[dyiu13]

<p>Tuck Everlasting (2002) </p>

<p>A Single Man (2009) </p>

<p>Midnight Cowboy (1969) </p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>I like the 1981 version of Tuck Everlasting.</p>

<p>And the 1968 version of Charly.</p>