<p>Instead of a watered down Eight Below, check out its original Japanese version ANTARCTICA (1983 directed by Nankyoku Monogatari) I think it’s for streaming somewhere.</p>
<p>My bookgroup won’t even read The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks ( and was made into a movie featuring Ian Holm), but it is well made imo, and well worth watching. ( about a school bus that goes off the icy road in B.C.)</p>
<p>I cry over Same Time Next Year. I watched it when I was very young, didn’t quite get it as much.</p>
<p>Bridges of Madison County, Meryl Streep</p>
<p>Two Sandra Bullock movies - While You Were Sleeping and The Blind Side. </p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>oh, the Blind Side! lots of tears…In the beginning, when Michael Ohr’s character is sleeping on the couch and overhears that wife telling her H that he can’t stay here… or when he’s doing his laundry at the laundromat, or when he’s walking alone in the rain and the Tuohy’s find him, and when he gets his FIRST real bed!!!, and especially when he’s told that the Tuohy’s want to adopt him. And I just wanted to slap that NCAA chick upside the head (I think she used to be on a soap)</p>
<p>LIfe is Beautiful and Schindler’s List had me drained but Robin Wiliams Jakob the Liar had a very sad ending if memory serves me, trying to make his kids smile to the end.
Terms of Endearment was another tearjerker for me. </p>
<p>@emilybee – agree on “The Blind Side”</p>
<p>Field of Dreams gets me every time. </p>
<p>How about Bonnie’s death in Gone With the Wind? Or Rhett’s back at the end?</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom – no spoilers for the younger crowd (not me, but the high school kids)</p>
<p>I would normally never even consider seeing a movie like “The Fault in Our Stars”… but I recently read “Paper Towns” because they will be making the movie here soon, which led me to read TFIOS, and yes I enjoyed the book so now I have signed up to receive notice when it becomes available on Redbox. 
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<p>Sorry about the spoiler, but I doubt today’s first-time GWTW viewers will connect well enough with this film to be moved to tears by any of it. I couldn’t get my kid to sit through it, and his friends (female included) think it’s too hokey (read old) to even attempt. I think our sensibility triggers have changed. It seems to me that it takes an extreme amount of action, science fiction, or current-day schmaltz to engage the emotions of recent generations. Simple stories of human connection do not seem to have much appeal to these “kids.” That’s been my take anyway.</p>
<p>@ChoatieMom - interesting point, I never thought of it that way. In that case, what would you classify as “current-day schmaltz” that moves kids today?</p>
<p>@testadvice: Current movies with kids their age who they can relate to (?), or animals. I’ve never seen my kid cry at a movie, so I don’t have specific examples, but I know that he and his friends are not interested in any “old” movie, nor will they sit through more current movies like Mr. Holland’s Opus (waaaay too sloooow, Mom). I really don’t know what touches them these days, but they do seem pretty hardened to tears.</p>
<p>Guess my kids are not the norm. Their favorite actors are Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn. And my D and I have cried through many a movie - War Horse being the most recent. The whole family cried through 8 Below. We’ve sworn off movies with animals. And I’ve seen S get a little teary during a few movies. I don’t think they’ve seen GWTW yet, but I know S has Casablanca and The African Queen on the DVR. </p>
<p>You all have hit all of mine: Beaches, Sophie’s Choice, Stepmom, and Les Miz. I saw “If I Stay” with my daughter this summer… that was a total tear jerker too. I think I cried through the whole movie. </p>
<p>I’ve cried during most of the movies mentioned, but don’t think I’ve ever cried harder or longer at a movie than I did watching Gallipoli many years ago (I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it again). It is a 1981 movie directed by Peter Weir and starring a very young Mel Gibson set during WWI. Gut wrenching.</p>
<p>Anyone seen the original Japanese version of “Shall We Dance?” Toward the end of the movie, when the daughter says to her dad, “Now, you dance with Mom. . .” --one of the saddest moments ever. (Not the same as the American version. . .) </p>
<p>^The Japanese version of Shall We Dance? is just great.</p>
<p>Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve. I must have seen it one hundred times, and I still cry. The eulogy in Four Weddings and a Funeral can get me crying just thinking about it. </p>
<p>The Last Song. Miley was actually worth watching then and I was a mess the whole movie</p>