It's been a while since we've had a thread like this, so I thought I'd just start a new one. We've had some discussion on this in one of our other threads, so maybe we need to pull it out and all cry (I mean, have moisture on our faces that's NOT crying! Really, it's not!) together.

What movies or tv shows bring suspicious water to your eyes?

As someone who can cry at a Hallmark commercial, this thread wouldn't be large enough to list all of the ones that affect me! But, here are a few:

1) There is a "Touched By An Angel" episode with Wynona Judd where her son is dying and has a list of things he wants to do before he does. Wynona sings a song she writes for him at the end. I don't care how many times I see that ep, I'm bawling.

2) Actually, pretty much any TBAA episode, now that I think about it!

3) "Pay It Forward" - I can't watch that ending when in a PMS state. Just can't do it.

4) Last night's show about Gilda Radner. I was in tears when Gene brought her that umbrella with the shoes on it. And, at the end, when Gilda walks into the lighted corridor.

There are lots more, of course! But, let's see what everyone else has, too.

Sunday, April 17, 2002 - The X Files - The Lone Gunmen sacrificed themselves in order to save the world from a killer virus and they were buried in Arlington Cemetery. Gawd, I balled my eyes out! I loved the Lone Gunmen. I also loved their pilot series last summer and hoped it would continue...alas, everything is lost!

At least they haven't killed off Skinner yet, that sexy devil! (Right, lefois?)

I don't think I could bear the Gilda thing. I loved her in all her roles. I even saw her in a play on Broadway with Sam Waterston and she was good.

I watched a story about a few people who'd fought their way through adversity. That was rough.

The Sixth Sense made me cry a river.

Steel Magnolias. Now that was a two box weepie.

I had suspiciously watery eyes in the Ice Storm when

[SPOILER]

Mikey died. Fabulous film though, cannot recommend it enough (and the score was wonderful too).

Otherwise, I can be relied on to cry with any happy ending (The Full Monty for example)!!



[ 05-10-2002, 10:10 PM: Message edited by: Flapjack44 ]

I just thought of one for Babyboomers! Thomasina the cat, Disney. The cat's funeral with the bagpipe.
Old Yeller, Disney.

Those television programmes where they reunite people who have lost touch, normally family members - these get to me every time. Apparently I am not the only one, I was talking to a prison officer the other day and he was telling me that this type of television programme can get a whole room full of prisoners blubbing openly.

I know it is old but Love Story did it for me.

Sue just the very idea is making me weepy! I watched the one here with judoka David Douillet trying to help people with problems get back on the right track! Oh my! I had tears streaming down my face, one race car driver had been in an accident and couldn't afford to live on his own though he wanted to, he was going to have to go into a rest home!
Why do I watch these things? I don't know!
The Italians had one of your kind and the one lady's father had become kind of a hermit living in a junkyard and they reunited them! waaaa!

I cry when an underdog wins anything at all, from speedskating at the Winter Olympics(!), to the Westminster dog shows! And, on our Remembrance Day, after the official ceremonies in Ottawa, when they show the "march past" of the oldest of the veterans (fewer every year). Those late night shows with babes in the bikinis ("Call me..."), can bring a tear, too, these days, but that's a whole 'nuther story!

I love bagpipes! Whenever I hear a lone piper or a military pipe band,a certain shivery proud feeling comes over me. My heart just wants to burst when I hear the screel of the pipes......

I think I should start the girly-girl weepy rating.

how many tissues?
the more tissues the better.

for example, Farewell My Concubine.
I saw my mom and aunt use up about 12 tissues
bewteen the two of them...

That's a 6 tissue rating! Fantastic!

Jubjub, have you heard the bagpipes played by little kids in a cat's funeral? We're talking goose bumps even thinking about it! Then they gently place her near the "witch woman's" house in the country and she comes up and sees the cat, whose voice we hear narrating! All right, it's a beautiful story! Patrick McGoohan from the prisoner is the vet father in a Scottish town. And the kids are probably from Mary Poppins, the boy at least.

Did anyone mention when Mufasa is killed and Simba think's he's responsible? (is this a spoiler?). I remember renting it with the kids one night and we were all crying!

Saw another one on TV, anyone seen the story of the French woman whose husband left her kidnapping their one daughter and escaping to Canada for a couple of years? And she decided to go and fight to find him and the Canadians helped her? They put her on national TV and someone identified the guy. I watched it on a documentary and last night they announced they were bringing him to trial.
The kid couldn't speak French anymore and barely recognized her little sister and when the two little girls met at the airport...oh boy, was I bawling out loud!

Billy Elliott does it.

so...what's the tissue rating on that one, mon ami?

"Fiddler On The Roof" was the hugest tear-jerker I have ever seen. We had seen in eons ago when I was in junior high school (when I was about 13 or 14) and I didn't remember much about it. I'd wanted to see it again for several years and finally rented it a couple of months ago. I certainly didn't remember it being so sad and I bawled through about 2/3rds of it. *sigh* But I want to see it again in maybe a year. Am I a glutton for punishment or what?

Saw it just last week....

" Shane... Come back, Shane...."

OHHHHHHHHHHHhh boooooohooooohoooooooooo

I think that's about a 3 on the LordA scale! Cause it comes at the end...and you can only cry so long....

Some movies I just cry in and some I sob and bellow in. The two at the top of the list are 'The Birdman of Alcatraz' and 'Streetcar Named Desire'. It's embarrassing because my nose always runs and I go boo hoo loudly and all my friends change seats fast.

I forgot about "A Patch of Blue" with Sandy Dennis (and others)! I BAWL at that one!

Bruyere, about the bagpipe thing - is the name of that movie "A Cat's Funeral"? I've never seen it, but it sounds like something that would catch at the old heartstrings.

I cried at the end of the original "Frankenstein", for pete's sake.

I just tried to find it, could only find "Disney's Tomasina" as a reference. No, just thinking about it makes me weepy!

Well, Dawsons Creek occasionally, and the episode where Buffy's mom died was really tear-jerking...and which movies? Let's see: My best Friends Wedding, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility...dramatic movies have a bad effect on me...but I love them!

"Awakenings" is the one that always does it for my husband, the scene where De Niro's character walks with arms outstretched towards his mother.

I can think of many: "It's a Wondeful Life", "The Green Mile", Brooks' death in "The Shawshank Redemption". But the first one I thought of is Roberto Benigni's beautiful "La Vita E Bella" (sorry, can't find an accent). So many tear-worthy moments but it's the end when Joshua is reunited with his mama, and says "We won, we won!! We're taking the tank home!!!" Blubbing now just thinking aboutit ;-)

Terms of Endearment makes me bawl like a baby every time I see it! When everyone is at Aurora's house after the funeral I just cry and cry! I feel like crying right now just thinking about it!

Brians Song, the orginal not the remake, and the final episode of the Wonder Years that was like losing family when that series ended.

O.k. some of these are a bit embarassing, but here goes...
Milo and Otis, I always cry when Milo and Otis find each other again.
E.r. - Dr.Green's foinal episode, I kneew what was going to happen and I said I wasn't going to cry, but I weeped like a baby.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, There are two episodes thayt made me cry so far. The one where Buffy kills Angel, made me bawl like a baby, of course I was eight months pregnant at the time but, hey. Also, the one where Buffy dies, I feel so sorry for Spike and Giles.
Cat's and Dogs, I know Lou isn't dead but it always gets me.
Star Trek: Generations Sad but true I cry every time Data gets his cat, Spot, back.
Oliver and Company, I always cry at the beginning when Oliver is in that box and nobody wants him, and in the background Billy Joel is singing.
Here On Earth
Pay It Forward
Fried Green Tomatoes
Say Anything

Molly, I also cried when Buffy killed Angel. I love that show. But, the one show that made me cry almost every time I watched it was Once and Again. I watched the season finale when they finally got married and cried through the whole last half of it. I miss that show. It was cancelled this last year
I can't watch the movie "The Green Mile" without crying either and don't even get me started on Steel Magnolias. I decided the last time I saw it that I just couldn't handle it anymore. I started crying at the part where Shelby gets her hair done and starts flipping out, not to mention when her mother is sitting by her bedside talking and reading to her.