Movies That Make Men Cry

[K'Nort]

There are tearjerkers that can break tough guys

By JIM BECKERMAN
McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

You know how guys are.

Sensitive. Fragile. No wonder they keep dragging you to all those wimpy, lump-in-the-throat ‘‘dude flicks.’’

The buddy dying of incurable cancer. The guy who finally bonds with his distant, hard-to-please father (or coach, or drill sergeant). Or, as in the case of the Disney film ‘‘Invincible,’’ opening today at Tinseltown USA, the loser who gets his million-in-one shot to be a football hero.

If ‘‘Invincible,’’ inspired by the true story of over-the-hill Philadelphia bartender Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), who gets to realize his lifelong dream of playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, doesn’t get guys as choked up as ‘‘The Natural’’ or ‘‘Field of Dreams,’’ we’ll go to bed without our Hungry Man dinners.

‘‘These movies allow men to touch those parts of their emotional life that they’re traditionally cut off from,’’ says Ed Cohen, associate professor of Woman and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Men, to be sure, probably shed fewer tears at the movies than women, says clinical psychiatrist Harvey Roy Greenberg, author of ‘‘The Movies on Your Mind’’ and ‘‘Screen Memories.’’ But that doesn’t mean they’re not as vulnerable to emotional manipulation.

But what men and women cry about - or almost cry about - is worlds apart.

Women typically cry about romance: love denied, love lost, love found. In a word, guys. Guys, on the other hand, seldom weep about women.

The most fraught movie moments, for men, usually involve other guys. ‘‘Homosociality’’ - as distinct from homosexuality - is usually at the root of what makes men get all warm and runny, Greenberg says.

‘‘It has to do with the binding of men to each other in a variety of settings, which are generally all-male,’’ Greenberg says. ‘‘In the midst of the most macho movies, there is sometimes a tender moment. You can let your inner woman come out, in a situation where you won’t be labeled a wuss.’’

Here are our nominations for the 10 Great Male Weepies of all time.

And remember, guys - don’t cry. It’s only a movie.

10. ‘‘THE CHAMP’’ (1931)

The movie: Strong men dissolved into quivering mounds of Jell-O when Wallace Beery, as the crusty, down-and-out boxer Andy ‘‘Champ’’ Purcell, fought one last round to prove to his adoring son Dink (Jackie Cooper) that he still has it. He wins - and then dies in the locker room while telling the weeping Dink to ‘‘smile.’’ Kids in the audience were probably bawling too hard to notice their keening dads. Remade, to little effect, in 1979.

9. ‘‘OF MICE AND MEN’’ (1939)

The movie: George (Burgess Meredith) is forced to shoot his buddy, the big sweet doofus Lenny (Lon Chaney Jr.), who has accidentally killed a tramp of a rancher’s wife (Betty Field). This archetypal male-buddy weepie inspired the later ‘‘Midnight Cowboy’’ and also the die-hard Bugs Bunny tag line: ‘‘Which way dud he go, George ... ?’’ Remade several times.

8. ‘‘THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES’’ (1942)

The movie: There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Lou Gehrig, dying from his eponymous disease, delivered his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium in 1939. Guys wept all over again when Gary Cooper re-created that moment over the echoing stadium loudspeaker in this biopic.

7. ‘‘SPARTACUS’’ (1960)

The movie: Roman senator Crassus (Laurence Olivier) agrees to give the rebel gladiators their lives - in exchange for their leader. Kirk Douglas is about to surrender himself, when one by one his fellow gladiators step forward, each claiming he is Spartacus. It’s a great three-hankie moment in male cinema, made all the more touching by the mass-crucifixion that follows.

6. ‘‘MIDNIGHT COWBOY’’ (1969)

The movie: The milieu is creepy-funky New York, but the tender relationship between Joe Buck (Jon Voight), the lovable dumb Texas hustler, and Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), the lowlife creep (“I’m walkin’ here!’’) is pure ‘‘Mice and Men.’’ The final moments, with Voight trying to get the dying Ratso to Florida by bus, constitute the most sure-fire death scene since ‘‘Romeo and Juliet.’’

5. ‘‘THE NATURAL’’ (1984)

The movie: Over-age slugger Robert Redford, having virtuously rejected a bribe to throw the big game, walks up to the plate, still bleeding from an old internal injury that - we’ve been informed - may kill him. Taking up the bat created just for him by the worshipful batboy, he prepares to hit one out of the field for the son he didn’t know he had, who - he’s just been informed by note - is out in the stands watching him. The mighty Redford swings - and sends a ball crashing into the stadium lights, where it sets off a Fourth-of-July shower of sparks that bathe him in light as he jogs around the field. As Thelma Ritter remarked in ‘‘All About Eve’’: ‘‘What a story - everything but the bloodhounds nippin’ at his rear end.’’

4. ‘‘BRIAN’S SONG’’ (1971)

The movie: Well, TV movie, actually - but the loving relationship of football players Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan), shattered by Piccolo’s fatal cancer, hit viewers more powerfully than most theatrical films. This one gets extra points for causing guys to cry in a well-lighted living room.

3. ‘‘AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN’’ (1982)

The movie: This is a rare example of a chick flick that is also eminently dude-worthy. Women liked to see Debra Winger get her officer, of course. But for guys, the story was about Richard Gere’s Zack Mayo becoming a man - with the memorable help of tough-as-nails sergeant Louis Gossett Jr.: ‘‘In this class, there’s always one joker who thinks that he’s smarter than me. In this class, that happens to be you. Isn’t that right, Mayonnaise?’’

2. ‘‘SAVING PRIVATE RYAN’’ (1998)

The movie: Spielberg’s World War II epic is mostly remembered for its harrowing depiction of the invasion of Normandy. But hidden inside that big movie was an old-fashioned male weepie struggling to get out. Tom Hanks’ rescue of Private Ryan, at the expense of his own life, is classic dude-movie stuff - especially when he tells Ryan (Matt Damon) with his dying breath: ‘‘Earn this ...’’

The boo-hoo moment: Private Ryan as an old man: ‘‘Tell me I have led a good life.’’ Ryan’s wife: ‘‘What?’’ Old Ryan: ‘‘Tell me I’m a good man.’’ Ryan’s wife: ‘‘You are.’’

1. ‘‘FIELD OF DREAMS’’ (1989)

The movie: This is it - the ‘‘Gone With the Wind’’ of guy flicks. It has everything: sports, a middle-aged guy (Kevin Costner) who gets a second chance, and the father-son reunion to end all father-son reunions. Corny as Karo syrup? You betcha. But if you plan on saying that to any of the big sniffling lugs in the theater - smile, pardner.

[Legato]

When Terminator 2: Judgement Day was at theaters I remember getting choked up when the Terminator melted at the end of the movie. I started bawling when he did that thumbs up to John Conner before he sanked into the fire.

[Quarterwolf]

I counter those with

White Squall - A true story about a group of American teenage boys who crew a school sailing ship to gain experience, discipline, or whatever their parents feel they lack. The voyage is a true adventure for them all but it has its downs as well as ups.

With Honor - Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon, a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day's accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.

Bed of Roses...If most guys would even watch it. -Romantic drama about a young career girl (Mary Stuart Masterson) who is swept off her feet by a shy florist (Christian Slater), who fell in love with her after one glimpse through a shadowy window.

All just make me blubber away at some point. And Field of Dreams only gets me every... 4 viewings.

[kmeyers]

If "Big Fish" doesn't make you tear up, you are dead inside.

[Trucker Belt]

Of Mice and Men is the only one out of those that has brought a lonely tear to my eye. The newer version anyways.

[Aggie]

i read that article in the news paper today and it kinda amused me...mainly because all of those movies have the same elements that are staples in every lifetime television for women movie ever made.

[Haunt]

the first Sleepaway Camp movie brought tears to my eyes.

[EZMOHR]

When Terminator 2: Judgement Day was at theaters I remember getting choked up when the Terminator melted at the end of the movie. I started bawling when he did that thumbs up to John Conner before he sanked into the fire.

Still the only movie I cry at. That ending got me when I was 11 and saw it the first time...it got me a week ago when I saw it again. God knows how many viewings in 15 years, and I still cry at the end every time.

[EZMOHR]

If "Big Fish" doesn't make you tear up, you are dead inside.


Vampire, Frakenstein or Zombie.........:)

Actually, I think the only Tim Burton movie I cried during was Planet of the Apes. I still miss that $8 the movie ticket cost till this day, (sniff!!!!)

[kmeyers]

Vampire, Frakenstein or Zombie.........:)
none of the above. Your cold black heart pumps an oily liquid substance, not like the rest of us who feel, and live.

Actually, I think the only Tim Burton movie I cried during was Planet of the Apes. I still miss that $8 the movie ticket cost till this day, (sniff!!!!)
I like Timmy...and not just the Southpark version.

[hoffmandu]

the first Sleepaway Camp movie brought tears to my eyes.


LOL! Me too, dude, me too. Still have nightmares about THAT shit.......and you know what I'm talking about.

[SnowTrooper]

That movie Ghost starring Patrick Swayze made me cry, so did the end of Titanic. The part in Click with Adam Sandler looking into the future when he sees his dad for the last time and acts like an asshole to him made me tear up a little. Ive never cried at any of the 10 moives that were listed in the first post.

[EZMOHR]

none of the above. Your cold black heart pumps an oily liquid substance, not like the rest of us who feel, and live.


I like Timmy...and not just the Southpark version.


But, wait, was Big Fish supposed to be sad. I thought it was supposed to be happy because he found his dad wasn't lying his whole life. And, that his dad was Obi Wan Kennobi. And that it gave Billy Crudup another job besides Almost Famous and the Master Card Commercials.

Nah, Big Fish is a good movie, just not a tear jerker. Now, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, I'm always crying with laughter by the end of that one.

[EZMOHR]

I guess from that list....I cried at the end of the Jon Voight, Rickey Schroder version of The Champ.

[kmeyers]

But, wait, was Big Fish supposed to be sad. I thought it was supposed to be happy because he found his dad wasn't lying his whole life. And, that his dad was Obi Wan Kennobi. And that it gave Billy Crudup another job besides Almost Famous and the Master Card Commercials.

Nah, Big Fish is a good movie, just not a tear jerker. Now, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, I'm always crying with laughter by the end of that one.


Yeah, it's a tears of joy kinda thing. He realized that his father wasn't lying to him, which he believed he was his whole life...and in the end, he got it. It was true, but it was also great storytelling.

His son finally got it, and went along for the ride. I love that movie, a lot...so i'm very biased.

[EZMOHR]

Yeah, it's a tears of joy kinda thing. He realized that his father wasn't lying to him, which he believed he was his whole life...and in the end, he got it. It was true, but it was also great storytelling.

His son finally got it, and went along for the ride. I love that movie, a lot...so i'm very biased.


Yeah, my wife crys at the end of it. I liked The Giant guy in it. And Danny DeVito in it. Basically the first hour. When it starts getting a little too heavy at the end, it really wasn't that special anymore. If it would have stayed fantastical for longer...then I could've got behind it more.

[TitoJones]

LOL! Me too, dude, me too. Still have nightmares about THAT shit.......and you know what I'm talking about.

We're talking about the one with the chick who never talked right?

If that's the case that movie scared the shit out of me more than any Freddy/Jason movie out there when I was a kid.

On the topic, does crying when Optimus Prime died count?

[jaguarshark]

Yeah, I'll cop to 'Big Fish' making me cry. I can't think of too many others offhand, but I often get waaaay too sucked in to movies, so there's probably been a bunch.

'Royal Tenenbaums' is definitely one. As well as being an absolutely gorgeous movie in general, the "I've had a rough year, dad" line (and occasionally the bit just before that, where Royal gives the kids the new dog) always gets me, and everything after that until the credits roll keeps the old tearducts flowing.

This is gonna bug me all day now, while I try and remember which movies made me their bitch. 'Unforgiven' is one, when Clint's talking as though his wife is still alive. Dammit, I know there's others...

[Buzz Dixon]

Real men only cry at the end of OLD YELLAR.

[xnef1025]

I'll admit it too. Click made me cry.

Does Iron Giant count even though it's a cartoon? From "You, stay," till "Superman," I'm a weepy little bitch, even though I know the ending, every time.

[Taltos]

Toy story, i weeped for those poor toys that went through such emotional turmoil.

[The Foreigner]

I've cried during quite a few movies.

The end of each Lord of the Rings film had tears streaming down my face. Boromir's final scene in FOTR, Sam's speech at the end of TTT, and pretty much the last 40 minutes of ROTK make me bawl every time.

Kill Bill caught me off guard with the moment where Beatrix first sees her daughter. Another very touching moment that did indeed make me cry.

Both Michael Caine's Alfie (The abortion scene), and the remake (The birthday party with Julie's son) made me cry.

Iron Giant is on the list of tearjerkers as well.

Those are three off the top of my head; all of them among my favorites of all time.

And I actually didn't cry at the end of Big Fish. Great movie though.

[StoneGold]

This isn't a movie, but a while back, A&E ran a Biography on Sesame Street. They showed the bit where Big Bird found out Mr. Hooper died. Now, I haven't seen this since Sesame Street was actually airing it, back when I was well within the target demographic, but it was like I was 4 years old again.

[berk]

looking back at all my favourite movies, I suddenly realise that almost all of them made me, if not physically cry, at least feel like it. The only exceptions were the ones that made me want to laugh - which weren't really exceptions at all, were they.

[Fish Sauce]

Click was pretty sad, I didn't actually cry though. I saw it with a friend and a bunch of her friends that I'd just met, so that would've made me look like a jackass. And it definitely would have got back to me.

Actually, Joyeaux Noel made me cry. I believe that's how it's spelt. It's a French movie about World War I when the Scottish, German and French soldiers stopped fighting at Christmas.

[Ontir]

Brian's Song

Even the hint of the theme makes me well up. Not because I'm overly familiar with the song, but because when I was a child, my big, tough, uncles would watch it, whenever it came on TV. By the end of it, they were all a mess!

[rick]

Brian's Song

Even the hint of the theme makes me well up. Not because I'm overly familiar with the song, but because when I was a child, my big, tough, uncles would watch it, whenever it came on TV. By the end of it, they were all a mess!


As far as I know, Brian's Song is still the only movie that men are officially allowed to get all blubbery over.

So it really should have that 1st position.

[Hombre]

I've always been a nerd and fairly apt to be moved to tears, so I couldn't say what films make men cry in general. These are some of mine:

1. From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann

2. Sometimes a great notion, directed by Paul Newman

3. The Sugarland Express, directed by Steven Spielberg

4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Milos Forman

5. The 400 blows, directed by François Truffaut

6. Sophie’s Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula

7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford

8. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, directed by Vittorio De Sica

9. Love Story, directed by Arthur Hiller

10. Au revoir, les enfants, directed by Louis Malle

[Valmore]

8. ‘‘THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES’’ (1942)

The movie: There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Lou Gehrig, dying from his eponymous disease, delivered his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium in 1939. Guys wept all over again when Gary Cooper re-created that moment over the echoing stadium loudspeaker in this biopic.

I cried because Lou Gehrig was a flaming New York Yankee. Nobody deserves that. Nobody. Except Jason Giambi. Stinkin' 'riod freak.

[Tadhg]

Real men only cry at the end of OLD YELLAR.

That's about it for me. Has to be a sad movie regarding a dog for me to cry. But boy will I cry.

[the film freak]

That's about it for me. Has to be a sad movie regarding a dog for me to cry. But boy will I cry.

I only cry when animals or giant robots die. And retards.

[Tadhg]

I only cry when animals or giant robots die. And retards.

Futurama must make you bawl then.

[Expletive Deleted]

No OCTOBER SKY? I thought that had a reputation as a total male chick flick.

[GamorasEYES]

Bette Midler's Beaches.



I kid, I kid. :evilsmile


There's only three films that have turned me into a mess: Iron Giant, Dad (a forgotten Ted Danson/Jack Lemmon tearjerker) ,and A Family Thing (Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones play...long lost brothers in Chicago...trust me, it is better than it sounds and an absolute cry-your-eyes-out film for dudes...)

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Does Iron Giant count even though it's a cartoon? From "You, stay," till "Superman," I'm a weepy little bitch, even though I know the ending, every time.

Ditto.

Even thinking about it gets me a little teary.

[SnowTrooper]

No OCTOBER SKY? I thought that had a reputation as a total male chick flick.
There was nothing sad or emotional obout October Sky that makes men cry. The boy gets a better relationship with his father at the end and eventually works for NASA. Whats sad about that? October Sky was more funny than sad, even though its not supposed to be.

[kel25]

I've never cried while watching a movie but some have brought a tear to my eye.

Gladiator
From Hell
Saving Private Ryan

[Gilda Dent]

We're talking about the one with the chick who never talked right?

If that's the case that movie scared the shit out of me more than any Freddy/Jason movie out there when I was a kid.

That's the one. Factoid: In the two sequels, the killer is played by Pamela Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen's sister.

GILDA

[BoosterBronze]

"Prince of Egypt" makes me cry everytime... twice.

When Moses's mamma puts him in the river, and during the beginnig of the Exodus something about the music, and images, and familiarity of the story brings tears to my eyes.

[the film freak]

Futurama must make you bawl then.

Oh man. "Jurassic Bark" had me bawling like a baby. The episode about Fry's brother... not so much.

[Ontir]

Bette Midler's Beaches.



I kid, I kid. :evilsmile


Y'mean I'm not SUPPOSED to be all teary?!?

Well, the first time I saw it, was the day of my Dad's heart-bypass. I had NO IDEA :eek: what the film was about, and was a friggin mess by the end of it!

[Tadhg]

Oh man. "Jurassic Bark" had me bawling like a baby. The episode about Fry's brother... not so much.


What about Anthology of Interest I when Giant Bender dies?

[Subotai]

Sling Blade.

When Billy Bob Thorton tells John Ritter that the Lord wouldn't be angry at him for being gay, and tells him to take care of the boy, and when he looks at Ritter and says that they boy lives inside his own heart, that's pretty touching.

[kel25]

Oh man. "Jurassic Bark" had me bawling like a baby. That is the only time my eyes watered while watching a TV show. It was a really impressive episode.

[Jared]

i read that article in the news paper today and it kinda amused me...mainly because all of those movies have the same elements that are staples in every lifetime television for women movie ever made.

Just what Lifetime movies are similar to Spartacus and Saving Private Ryan?


Anyway, I bawled when Optimus died too. Though nowadays, I can get through it fine. If anything, I think about how silly it is to have a robot on lifesupport.

[Loren]

Yeah, it's a tears of joy kinda thing. He realized that his father wasn't lying to him, which he believed he was his whole life...and in the end, he got it. It was true, but it was also great storytelling.

Huh. "Big Fish" made me cry, but not at that part. It was when the son was telling his father the story of his death, specifically the scene as he carries him from the car to the river, passing all of the friends he'd had, and then meeting his wife in the river.

I'll also second "October Sky," "Iron Giant," and "Jurassic Bark." I'll also add "Forrest Gump" (which I suspect film freak was referencing) for the scene when Bubba dies.

[Loren]

There was nothing sad or emotional obout October Sky that makes men cry. The boy gets a better relationship with his father at the end and eventually works for NASA. Whats sad about that?

It's the scene when he's doing his final launch, after he's already won the contest, and his dad finally shows up to watch. So he gives his dad the remote control.

It's a great father-son moment.

[Loren]

This isn't a movie, but a while back, A&E ran a Biography on Sesame Street. They showed the bit where Big Bird found out Mr. Hooper died. Now, I haven't seen this since Sesame Street was actually airing it, back when I was well within the target demographic, but it was like I was 4 years old again.

From YouTube: Sesame Street: I'll Miss You Mr. Hooper (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GaXiWgDU4i0)

I recall hearing that this scene was done in one take. Those tears the actors are crying are real.

And that picture of Mr. Hooper is still hanging in Big Bird's nest, over 20 years later.

[kmeyers]

Huh. "Big Fish" made me cry, but not at that part. It was when the son was telling his father the story of his death, specifically the scene as he carries him from the car to the river, passing all of the friends he'd had, and then meeting his wife in the river.

That's what I meant. That's when (I thought)the son finally gets it. So he tells his father the story of his death, something he would have previously thought to be silly.

[Loren]

That's what I meant. That's when (I thought)the son finally gets it. So he tells his father the story of his death, something he would have previously thought to be silly.

I see. I thought you meant at the funeral, when he sees all the people his father had told stories about.

[Mike Pothier]

ET still gets me blubbering everytime he dies next to Elliot.

[SnowTrooper]

That movie 'A Walk to Remember' with Mandy Moore and Shane West had me hooked the whole time. Really sad movie, brought a tear to my eye.

[Atomic Horror]

Huh. "Big Fish" made me cry, but not at that part. It was when the son was telling his father the story of his death, specifically the scene as he carries him from the car to the river, passing all of the friends he'd had, and then meeting his wife in the river.

I'll also second "October Sky," "Iron Giant," and "Jurassic Bark." I'll also add "Forrest Gump" (which I suspect film freak was referencing) for the scene when Bubba dies.


That "Big Fish" scene got me, too. I'm not embarrased to admit.

Not a movie, but there was a scene in "The X-Files" where Mulder meets the spirit of his sister (still as a little girl) and the two embrace. That choked me up.

[Michael P]

That "Big Fish" scene got me, too. I'm not embarrased to admit.

Not a movie, but there was a scene in "The X-Files" where Mulder meets the spirit of his sister (still as a little girl) and the two embrace. That choked me up.
That right there was the end of the series for me. Nothing else was ever as good.

[Slam_Bradley]

Frequency is the only one that's gotten to me. And I suspect it's because my Dad had recently died when I saw it.

I don't even cry at Brian's Song or Old Yeller.

Though when Charles Bronson dies in The Magnificent Seven...it's a close call.

[Forefinger]

The only movie that I can remember that almost got me was the scenes in We were Soldiers when the wives were going and telling the other wives that their husbands were KIA.

[Howard Allan]

If you don't cry at the end of Old Yeller, you are already dead. The Yearling is also a movie that it's impossible not to cry at. When the boy has to kill the fawn it rips your heart out.

[Jmacq1]

I'll second the "Lord of the Rings" movies. Any of those "big battles against impossible odds" bits really get me choked up. But none more so than the final charge of Theoden and the Rohirrim.

[Forefinger]

If you don't cry at the end of Old Yeller, you are already dead. The Yearling is also a movie that it's impossible not to cry at. When the boy has to kill the fawn it rips your heart out.
It was sad and all, but no, I didn't cry at Old Yeller.

[Dreadstar]

Brian's Song. And like rick says, we get a free pass to that one. Although, I have to admit I get a bit misty eyed near the end of The Cowboys, when the kids start taking on characteristics of Wil Anderson.

[StarsAndGarters]

Huh. "Big Fish" made me cry, but not at that part. It was when the son was telling his father the story of his death, specifically the scene as he carries him from the car to the river, passing all of the friends he'd had, and then meeting his wife in the river.Oh man, that was the scene that did it for me. Something about how the son finally understood and decided to participate in his dad's world. It was undescribable.

[Matt Algren]

Dad (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QJ1W0). This one always gets me blubbering. It doesn't help that I first saw it with my dad as his dad was lying in the next room, dying of Parkinson's disease.

Jack Lemmon is terrific.

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007QJ1W0.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Slam_Bradley]

Brian's Song. And like rick says, we get a free pass to that one. Although, I have to admit I get a bit misty eyed near the end of The Cowboys, when the kids start taking on characteristics of Wil Anderson.


Misty is one thing. But you know The Duke would kick your ass if you actually cried.

[jessecuster3]

yeah count me in the Brian's Song bunch, also I think I am the only one but The Hurricane gets me everytime. Especially when the Canadians flash the lights in the hotel right across from his cell.

Field of Dreams used to get me choked up but thats it.

[Forefinger]

I'm getting misty eyed just reading this thread.

[Dreadstar]

Misty is one thing. But you know The Duke would kick your ass if you actually cried.

Fact.

I'll have a Suaza Commemorative to his honor tonight.

[knuklo]

yeah I remember crying in the theater watching ET. haven't cried since. (jk)

[marshal99]

Grave of the fireflies.

If you don't feel sad watching this movie , you are dead inside. :)

[DubipR]

Definitely Field of Dreams. Anyone that ever played catch with his dad or ever lost touch with theirs can relate.
Then again, I cry at some of films that aren't meant to be cried at:
1. Saving Private Ryan- not for the final scene,but the opening scene. Seeing all the soliders, be it American or German, its brutal and vicious and and I cringe and cry at seeing this, the ficitonal loss of live.
2. Last of the Mohicans- when Uncas saving Jodhi May character, getting killed and her following because she truly loved him.
3. Edward Scissorhands- "Hold me." "I can't." With those 2 phrases, Johnny Depp made me cry because a robot wanted to hold someone he cares for but can't physically hold her in his hands. Touching.
4. My Life- Michael Keaton's finest hour, this side of Night Shift.