Most Heart-Wrenching Movie Moment [Archive]

moonchild64

07-02-2008, 02:31 AM

What is yours? I mentioned mine in my review of "I Am Legend", but I will mention them here also:

Mel Gibson's balcony scene in "Ransom" when he breaks down.

Tom Hanks' scene in "The Terminal" when he first sees on the overhead tv monitors that his country is being blown up. NEVER have I seen one man say so much without uttering a word!!!

And my latest 2 came from "I Am Legend". The scene with the dog (if you saw the movie then you know which one I am talking about) and the one right after when Will's character says "Hello" to the "Lady" in the video store.

Please share yours with me. Don't get too specific in case some of us haven't seen the movie. Yet, hopefully you can say enough to make me want to watch it also. :)

Jenni232323

07-02-2008, 10:43 AM

I can't think of many off the top of my head, but I got that knot in my chest this weekend towards the end of Bucket List - mostly for Morgan Freeman's character's family.
I second you on the I am Legend dog scene.
I'll try to think of more.

Jess0587

07-02-2008, 10:49 AM

imalittletoenail

07-02-2008, 06:48 PM

Oh, so many movies to think about, but here's one that really struck me the first time I watched it:

Das Boot

--some of the mining scenes, when it seems all hope is lost, particularly one where they are very dire straits, literally and figuratively--anger, resolution, crying, fear, desperation--quite a potent mix depicted on screen there

oh man, this movie is absolutely incredible! and i agree...definitely heartwrenching

one i think of off hand is This Is England...the scene near the end...I think my heart literally stopped at one point...

lovetolaugh

07-02-2008, 10:00 PM

Step mom
when Julia Roberts character is talking to the daughter about her mom not being at her wedding. Julia Roberts admits to being jealous because she won't be her real mom. It was a real tear jerker for me.

moonchild64

07-03-2008, 11:45 PM

Wow ... y'all have mentioned some great scenes! I haven;t seen Das Boot or Bucket List yet. Bucket List is one I was planning to watch. I thought it would be a good one to watch when I needed levity ... and now you tell me it has a tear-jerker scene. Oh no! Good to know though ... I will still watch it ... only now I know not to be alone. :)

rxqueen

09-30-2008, 04:13 AM

The Notebook
I can't really pick a scene but I guess my favorite was the ending young/old love I cried so hard watching this movie.

danajc83

09-30-2008, 10:49 AM

Jess0587

09-30-2008, 10:50 AM

The S E X and the City Movie when the Mr Big didn't show up to the wedding and when they met in the street and he realized he had made a mistake and she just kept hitting him with the flowers.... This was a great movie!

A girl at work was supposed to bring that movie today for me to borrow! I better go ask her! I really want to see this!

danajc83

09-30-2008, 10:54 AM

A girl at work was supposed to bring that movie today for me to borrow! I better go ask her! I really want to see this!
Oh you have to see this! This is definately one that i will be buying here soon!

Jess0587

09-30-2008, 11:05 AM

Oh you have to see this! This is definately one that i will be buying here soon!

I'd like to have all the seasons to it too!

danajc83

09-30-2008, 11:08 AM

I'd like to have all the seasons to it too!
Yea me too! That will be on my Christmas list this year lol.

Jess0587

09-30-2008, 11:08 AM

Yea me too! That will be on my Christmas list this year lol.

Same here :D

MandMnmbr3

12-04-2008, 07:54 PM

One of my favorites is in Steel Magnolia's. When M'Lynn (Sally Field) breaks down after Shelby's (Julia Roberts) funeral. When Weaser, Clairee, and Anell, are walking and talking to M'Lynn. M'Lynn get mad and says it isn't fair to bury your child.

Hugs!

missinformation

12-04-2008, 10:00 PM

The ending of Up Close and Personal :(

The ending of Message In A Bottle

Love Story

Pride of the Ynakees, the Lough Gehrigh Story.....Gary Cooper saying to the doctor, "Give it to me straight, Doc, is it strike three?"

Sleepless In Seattle - Jonah talking to his dad about remembering his mom.....

Pass the Kleenex please

missinformation

12-04-2008, 10:29 PM

I forgot...the almost final scene in Jacob's Ladder....where he makes the decision.....freaky movie, but so good.

LadyAlexis

12-07-2008, 03:12 PM

The S E X and the City Movie when the Mr Big didn't show up to the wedding and when they met in the street and he realized he had made a mistake and she just kept hitting him with the flowers.... This was a great movie!

OMG!! YES!!!! and the look that charolette gave him!!! ooohh i cry wen i c it everytime!!!!!!!:rolleyes: ima loser,, i kno already!!!:D

wat about the way she clutched her abdomen wen she found out he wasnt there omg!!! SJP nailed the emotions n this movie!!!!!!

LadyAlexis

12-07-2008, 03:15 PM

ok i need tissues as i type this... SERIOUSLY......

IN THE MOVIE " IMITATION OF LIFE" WHEN SARAH JANE COME TO THE FUNERAL AND SAYS" LET ME THRU LET ME THRU THAT MY MOTHER" OMG!!!!!

AND WHEN SHE'S OFF PRETENDIN TO B WHITE AND HER MOM GOES TO VISIT HER, AND SHE'S A SHOWGIRL AND HER ROMMATE SAYS " HONEY CHILD U HAD A MAMMY?" AND SARAH JANE SAYS " ALL MY LIFE" OMG!!!!! AND WHEN HER B/F FIND OUT SHES BLACK AND NOT WHITE AND SHE SAYS " IM AS WHITE AS YOU" I SWEAR I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS MOVIE SINCE I WAS A LIL GIRL AND JUS THINKING BOUT IT MAKES ME CRY,, GR8 MOVIE!!!! DONTGET ME STARTED ON WEN MAHALIA JACKSON IS SINGING AT THE FUNERAL!!! OMG!!! I NEED TISSUES NOW.. ANY SAMPLES;)

cath_31

01-06-2009, 01:19 AM

I don't want to spoil this for anyone, so I am sure if you have seen it, you know what I am talking about.

cmonpelican

01-06-2009, 08:49 AM

TRINA1234

01-06-2009, 09:03 AM

When I was a kid mine was when ET flew home

warriorsbond

02-19-2009, 01:14 AM

It was the movie the Big Blue with Jean Reno when he pulled his friend from the water and he has blood coming from his ears from the fast assent and well the rest you will have to see. Sorry dont want to blow it.
But ya. Best touching movie I ever saw.

My other most favorite was The Green Mile when John Coffey grabs tom hanks and shows him what was in billy the kids heart. I cried so hard.

Also I truly enjoyed the scene in Contact where nobody believed her about her experience but at the end he stands up for her in front of the world. I was so happy for that moment.

Lisa

whiteheadsr

02-21-2009, 01:12 PM

My all time favorite movie is Stepmom, i cried and everytime i watch it i cry.

momsangel

02-21-2009, 01:34 PM

My other most favorite was The Green Mile when John Coffey grabs tom hanks and shows him what was in billy the kids heart. I cried so hard.

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This is an excellent movie, I own it and watch it several times:)

whiteheadsr

02-21-2009, 01:41 PM

Texmel

02-21-2009, 09:06 PM

I was thinking the other day of "Against All Odds," the 80's movie with Rachel Ward and Jeff Bridges...at the end, at the party, when they are at the party, separated by many people, but they can't be together--I was BAWLIN'!

laf76

02-24-2009, 03:28 PM

Schindler's List.....the whole entire movie made me cry but especially when he breaks down at the end and wishes he had been able to save more people from the Holocaust. Sophie's Choice was a sad one too

Brbie

02-24-2009, 06:56 PM

Well concidering everything makes me cry... I would have to say in the movie, Hope Floats. When Sandra Bullucks husband shows up and he decides to leave. Their daughter grabs her suitcase to go with her daddy and he drives off leaving her standing by the road. She is bawling her eyes out BEGGING her daddy to take her. I think I creid for at least 10 minutes and I do mean cry. That little girl deserved an Oscar for that. :( Barbee

Sewhappy

02-25-2009, 08:12 AM

Everything makes me cry too! some of my multi-kleenix movies are A River Runs Through It
when Brad Pitt who plays a wayward son gets killed and how the family reacted to it.
Beaches, a story about best friends and one of them dies. I remember going with my Mom to the movies to see Gone With the Wind. That was imbarrassing we cried so much when
so many of Scarlett's family and friends die. Seriously, I sometimes cry watching sit-coms.
My daughter can't believe it!

Blammo

03-07-2009, 01:10 AM

The 3 off the top of my head: The climaxes of both The Notebook and Pay It Forward...both pretty notoriously sob-inducing. The 3rd is in Forrest Gump when Forrest sees his son for the first time and exclaims to his long-time on/off girlfriend who's the mother that he (the son) is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen in his life. There were a lot of powerful moments in that movie but that one was particularly moving.

cmonpelican

03-07-2009, 12:14 PM

i looove forrest gump!! That scene did it for me too, my boyfriend teases me, he said i know it's coming why do i cry evrytime ...it just gets to me

Jenni232323

04-26-2009, 07:25 AM

Saw Marley and Me last night - balled like a baby for the last hour of it! I had read the book and knew the outcome, but it still got me. I was crying and petting my dog through to the end and after!!

MandMnmbr3

05-01-2009, 10:36 PM

I just thought of another one... Meet Joe Black. When Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt are walking off into the hills at the end of Anthony Hopkins b-day party.

cmonpelican

05-05-2009, 09:36 AM

in the movie jack when robin williams asks his teacher to the dance beause she looks like she's his age and she has to sya no and he falls down the stairsand he was sad

AND when his tutor tells him about the shooting star, how they are only round for a little while but while they are here the bright up the sky amd are so amazing all the other stars stop moving for it....

(Im a sap lol)

KimberN

05-08-2009, 07:51 AM

An Officer and a Gentleman... both when Zack gets his buddy down that committed suicide, and when Zack goes and gets his girl at the factory at the end!

ET leaving always makes me cry and yes, I even cried at Charlottes Web (which was quite puzzling to my little niece that I took with me to see it at the theater a couple of years back).

My guys think I am a "big sap" I cry at happy endings and bawl at sad ones! :o

I know better than to watch Marley & Me... no way can I do that!

mom2fussbudgets

05-24-2009, 09:19 PM

i dont want to ruin it, so i will just say there are like 3 scenes that made me cry and than one more scene that made me bawl like a baby, in the movie thearter.....thank god i didnt wear make up that night :o

I absolutely loved The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's currently my all-time favorite movie. My favorite quote from the movie:

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."--Benjamin Button (in a letter to his daughter).

Brad did such a wonderful job. I wish he would have won the Oscar. A touching and bittersweet movie. Fantabulous!

Cpogie

05-25-2009, 12:47 AM

I absolutely loved The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's currently my all-time favorite movie. My favorite quote from the movie:

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."--Benjamin Button (in a letter to his daughter).

Brad did such a wonderful job. I wish he would have won the Oscar. A touching and bittersweet movie. Fantabulous!

Chris, I would love to see this movie. Thats a wonderful phrase from the movie...and so true. I'll have to hook up my DVD and go rent the movie!!

mom2fussbudgets

05-26-2009, 09:14 PM

Chris, I would love to see this movie. Thats a wonderful phrase from the movie...and so true. I'll have to hook up my DVD and go rent the movie!!

Please do! You will not be sorry. Promise! :)

jessiegirl

05-27-2009, 10:42 PM

Please do! You will not be sorry. Promise! :)

I thought the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button was really good, but way too long. I ended up watching it in two segments because I just couldn't sit for 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's just my opinion though.

Sewhappy

05-28-2009, 03:38 PM

One movie scene that never fails to make me cry, even now that I'm no longer a little kid, is in Homeward Bound when Sassy and Chance run into their owners arms, but Shadow doesn't come back, so Peter thinks he's lost, but then Shadow comes bounding up the hill. It breaks my heart every time.

I cry too, even though I know Shadow will show up!

mom2fussbudgets

05-29-2009, 08:30 AM

I thought the Curious Case Of Benjamin Button was really good, but way too long. I ended up watching it in two segments because I just couldn't sit for 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's just my opinion though.

And you are entitled to it. :)

The movie is so good, I didn't realize it was this long. My son and I went and saw it at the $1 movies. He's 13, and I was worried about him being bored; he only agreed to see it because he knew how much I wanted to go. He told me later though that he liked it a lot and was glad that he went.

Carol, after you see it, let me know what you think!