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I have an 8 year old granddaughter who is pretty "tough" when it comes to tear jerking movies. I need to spring this one on her.
In fact, the last time she spent the night, I picked her up and told her mother and her, "Come on - time for MiMi to make you cry." It's sort of a running joke now because so far she hasn't cried over the Yearling or Dumbo. Time to break out the big guns - Where The Red Fern Grows and Marley and Me.
If those, or Old Yeller don't get her .... nothing will I tear up just thinking about them but I'm mushy like that - LOL
Life is Beautiful---when Guido (played by Roberto Benigni) is marched past his young son right before he's about to be executed, and signals to his son that this, too, is just part of the game they're playing. The young son doesn't know he's been in a Nazi concentration camp because all along the father, Guido, has protected him from the horrors of their reality by saying it's all a game--to win an army tank at the end. This movie gets me every time. Heart-wrenching.
the ending in the dog movie "Marley n Me". Owen Wilson stars in it.
Marley and Me! How could I forget that one. I seriously did the ugly cry in front of my son who was in middle school at the time. He was shocked I got that upset.
I thought of another one - Lorenzo's Oil when the father (cannot remember his name) looks up in the medical dictionary and determines the extent of his son's disease.
OK- I definitely agree with Remember the Titans' scene, Lion King, Hotel Rwanda, and Pursuit of Happiness
To add:
1) Hardball- when the child is not given a ride by Keanu Reeves when asked for one (since he lives in a dangerous neighborhood) and he ends up being shot
2) Save the Last Dance- when Julia Styles is performing her final audition for Julliard and she messes up at first. While she's struggling, Sean Patrick Thomas has a big decision to make (does he stay with his thug friends and help them finish a job or does he see her final audition). He obviously made the best choice and watched her final audition and I balled my eyes out! His thug friends all went to jail, while he was accepted to med school and she got into Julliard. Love that movie!!
3) Sin Nombre- at the beginning of the movie seeing innocent Smiley get broken into the gang by being beaten consecutively for 13 seconds to prove his loyalty and initiation. Then, the final scene when Casper is murdered by Smiley (who ironically he introduced into the gang...). Smiley was trying to leave the gang and find a better life for himself, but unfortunately there was no escape.
4) Blood Diamond- start to finish
5) Mandragora- the final scene where the boy's father goes to look for his son (who became a victim of child sex trafficking) and after giving up weeps in the bathroom stall (ironically, next to the stall where the son's lifeless body lay with drugs). This film isn't on Netflix or Hulu but if you can get ahold of it, I highly recommend it.
6) Angels in the Outfield- don't ask lol
7) Not without my daughter- the final scene when Sally Field reaches America and you see the flag flying in the air. This movie really made me appreciate the freedom women have here in America and I will never take it for granted
8) Erin Brockovich- that final scene when her boss tells her that unfortunately her paycheck is not what she is expecting. So she starts cursing him out talking about all the hard work she did, yada yada. Then she opens the check and it is for FAR more than she was expecting. I cried my eyes out because this was a true story and she is a courageous woman who struggled being a single mom of 3 kids and worked her way to be successful
My Sister's Keeper, when Kate looks into her father's eyes (wearing a wig to disguise her bald head), and whispers "Do I look pretty, Daddy?" Our youngest daughter used to say that to my husband every time she dressed up to go somewhere, and now she never calls him.... It's been seven years. That line makes both DH and I cry.
The Flowers of War - all of it. This movie (starring Christian Bale) is beyond description. It's a work of art, yes, but... it never leaves you.
The Godfather III, first when Vincent tells Mary to "Love someone else," and then when Mary is shot. I'm fighting back tears here just thinking about it.
Sophie's Choice. I only ever get as far as her daughter's chin beginning to quiver, right before Sophie says "Take my baby! Take my little girl!" (To the crematorium.) Oh, God! Forgive us!
"The Waltons" TV series
- When nurse Mary Ellen Walton hints to the little mountain cabin girl, very gently in a roundabout way, that the girl's mother has just died from T.B.
- When the frightened little boy and girl, refugees from the London Blitz (bombing) finally are able to talk to their mother overseas via "Ham Radio"
"Marty" (was awarded the Best Movie of 1954 or 1955 ?)
- When Betsy Blair tells lonely Ernest Borgnine "I do want to see you again........very much"
- When he sees her leaning over the railing on the balcony of the dance hall, crying after being abandoned by her date, and he goes over to console and gently hug her
"The Pursuit of Happyness"
- when homeless Will Smith at night, lures his son into going with him to the subway restroom to sleep, by telling him they've got to go "hide from dinosaurs"
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That scene where Sarah Jane is puling at the flowers on her mom's casket on the street in Imitation of Life and saying that she really did love her, after she treated her mom like a dog, gets me EVERY time...
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I tear up just thinking about them but I'm mushy like that - LOL 
..... And I'm proud to be part of that club 
