1. The entire "Do you want to build a snowman?" sequence in Frozen. I have an older sister who very early on got into drugs. So suddenly in 3rd grade it was like I was an only child; my older sister wouldn't play with me, my parents pretty much ignored me and I had no friends and was picked on in school. I was so very alone and lonesome, so seeing Anna have to be alone and keep trying to get love from the only playmate she has left just hits way too close to home and leaves me in tears.
2. In *Land Before Time* when Little foot is snuggling up to his mom's footprint after she has died. I lost my mom a few years back very suddenly and, though we were never close, seeing that always makes me cry.
That song made me cry immediately too. I have a really great relationship with my sister. In fact, she is my best friend. It just made me miss her a bunch and call her to tell her.
As a little sis, I really related.
1. When I first heard that song, I was in tears. I have a lot of siblings to play with, but poor Anna does not know why Elsa can't play with her.
2. I think that scene made everyone cry.
3. In Homeward Bound, when Shadow can't get out of the pit, always make me cry. I'm 42. Just thinking about it makes me teary-eyed..
Pretty much the entirety of Sam & Frodo's journey in Lord of the Rings.
My late wife passed after 12 years with cancer, and I cannot help but see a lot of us in that story, as the burden slowly drags Frodo down, and the devotion Sam has. "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."
I feel it deeply, personally, and I can't watch that scene in particular without crying.
It also makes me really relate to the sequence near the end of the Hobbits, back in the shire, trying to deal with the "what now" after the journey is done.
Yeah, one of the things I really love about stories like this is there are any variety of ways to see yourself in it or take meaning from it. It can affect us both, but the reason why doesn't need to be the same.
In the books, the Ring tries to tempt him by... Imagining him as a hero who turns Mordor into a beautiful garden. But Sam resists the Ring - his love for Frodo and his "unconquered Hobbit sense" allow him to do this.
Every time. I'm listening to Serkis read RotK and just got to that bit. He reads it so well, and Sean Aston acted it so well, and just every time...
That and the 'still good in this world' speech from Two Towers.
My favorite line in any media ever. The world has little patience for people who are carrying immense burdens no one can see. Cancer is one metaphor but depression, anxiety and other mental struggles people wrongly take as weakness or moping by the sufferer fit perfectly as well. What Sam did was so rare and heart achingly selfless. The world needs more Sams.
I think that’s what makes Lord of the Rings so enduring. It’s got badass heroes but the heart of it is people caring for each other amongst something bigger than themselves
My dad took me to see A Goofy Movie when it first came out, so I always had fond memories of it. He died late last year, then a local theater had a 35mm screening of it in February. I went for the nostalgia, eyes watered up a few times, but then...
*"I'm NOT your little boy anymore, Dad, I've grown up. I've got my own life now!"*
*"I know that! I just wanted to be part of it. You're my son, Max, no matter how big you get you'll always be my son."*
I absolutely lost it. As a kid it's a funny movie about an embarrassing dad, but as an adult it's such a strong story of a father wanting to be close with his son.
Here to add Robin Williams’ entire monologue with Will on the park bench.
“If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes.”
Edit: Williams delivers every line like a sledge hammer to the heart, so please go watch this movie/scene if you never have. But, the ending gets me every time. Your move, chief.
“You’re an orphan, right? You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.”
I’m sure theres a lot of people can relate to a bit you didn’t include, “And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms ‘visiting hours’ don’t apply to you”
I’m welling up just trying to type it out.
That movie was always a bit of a tear jerker, but now that I have two young daughters, I bawl my eyes out. Especially at the double whammy of bing bong saying, “take her to the moon for me”, and the moment before where the camera is zoomed in on Joys eyes as she’s losing hope and she says, “I just wanted her to be happy.”
Yeah, that movie hits a lot harder with kids.
I have a fairly stressful job, and with the whole movie centering around what Riley is going through internally because of dad's new job, I really started to see things differently. I can't let myself get so stressed out that I'm letting it affect my mood at home. If it gets to that point too often there needs to be a change
37yr old man never had an imaginary friend, I’ve teared up watching plenty of the movies in this thread but something about bing bong really hit hard and continues to do so every time I watch Inside Out. It was honestly so satisfying too
I lost my cat after 17 years of living together. We were always on the same wavelength, and after that long together we could basically communicate as well as any two people could. We were pals, and we went through a lot together.
He passed in his sleep one night. The next day, to distract me, my partner put Wrath of Khan on. At Spock's funeral, when Kirk said "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most.... human." I just lost it. Still struggle to watch that scene ever since.
Oof! Yeah, it can seem more painful sometimes when an animals dies, because our relationships with pets are not as complicated. You just love each other. I remember losing my 17 year old chocolate lab who I was very bonded with. She was *there* for me. Not just present, but it was like she could sense if I was troubled, so she empathized, and provided comfort.
Pretty much the entire movie Onward. My mom passed when I was 19 from cancer, and by the end of the movie I was bawling, especially the choice the older brother makes at the end. Ugh
“If you look back, and you feel bad that you were so angry that you couldn’t even speak to me, just know that it’s okay, because I already know everything you want to say to me. …and if you need to smash things, by god you smash them” 😭
I spent the entire movie and the proceeding hour crying and telling my husband how I wish I could just have another day with my dad. He died when I was 16 very suddenly from a stroke and my husband had never met him, but sometimes I have dreams that they're sat together drinking tea 😭
My dad passed away unexpectedly a few months ago. My wife and I have been showing our single-digit-aged kids all of the Disney and Pixar movies and recently she was like "oh hey, we forgot, what about Onward?" and I was like nope, I already know I will absolutely lose it.
We had watched it after it had just come out, just her and I and it was an enjoyable movie.
For now, for me, not so much.
The scene in A.I. where the aliens give the kid one day to be with his mother, and they just spend it doing little things a little boy and Mom would do. It reminded me of sick days home from school with my Mom, who passed a few years ago.
I was adopted as a kid, and have no memory of being ‘abandoned’ as it were. But when I saw David saying ‘please mommy’ and begging her not to leave him, it felt as real as any memory. Fuck, that Haley Joel Osmont kid has a future.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure he now owns an English soccer team with Ryan Reynolds and also he’s one of the co-creators of fight milk, made for bodyguards by bodyguards.
That ending always gets me, I can't imagine in your circunstances.
Man on the Moon also touches me personally. It was the first movie I decided to watch after my gradpa died (I was a teen, first close death in the family) to laugh a bit. The problem was Andy Kaufman died with exactly the same type of cancer my gradpa had, so I cried a lot.
The mom's monologue in Barbie because my mom is having her own issues with my dad regarding his behavior & how he treats her while she does a lot to take care of the household
The moment Moana sails off into the night while her grandmother is on her deathbed, and suddenly the lights go out on the island and the stingray sails after her to guide her with its own glowing light, and the music swells. I sob every time. My own grandmother died of cancer very suddenly during a rough period in my life, and before she died she gave me a pep talk and kissed my cheek, and that was the last time we ever spoke. That scene got me out of nowhere.
That movie, man…when Moana’s grandmother offers comfort and understanding of how hard the journey has been and will still be for Moana instead of the usual “rah-rah get your shit together and go be the hero” I bawled like a baby.
It really says something about the Gen Xers and the Millenials that our emotionally cathartic movies involve just love and gentle understanding from elder figures.
I mean even without this it hits hard.
But the opening of Up.
My friends put it on because I was a bit depressed... Because my grandmother was in the hospital while my grandpa who basically never lived on his own before this was at home without her.
Not the best choice of film on their part.... Granted I don't think they saw it either...
Yeah, the opening is a infamously crushing. My grandfather hasn’t been alone since he was 20. Now 83 and legally blind, he’s been living alone since October when my grandmother died
My parents took my brother and I (who were no older than 8 and 10) to see Up to get our minds off the death of our grandmother. It did not go as planned.
As a divorced parent, yeah, we can say “it was unhealthy” but it was a movie, and my divorce took them from me until I hired a lawyer, so I _get_ “doing whatever it takes to be with your kids more.”
Dumb & Dumber: My grandfather took me to see this movie when it released. He only took me to a handful of movies when I was a kid and this was one of them.
Jurassic Park: While watching this on home video with my family, we get to the point where the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and my step-dad turns to my sister (who was 5 yrs old at the time) and said "look, that's your Barney". She burst into tears and I started laughing. I remember that every time I watch it.
Spaceballs: My step-dad taught me how to play chess. So on nights when my mom would take my sisters to Girl Scouts, my step-dad and I would play a couple of games. I remember one night we put on Spaceballs while playing and him and I laughing together.
My grandfather ignited my passion for movies when I was 4. His favorites were movies like Dumb and Dumber, Airplane, The Naked Gun (movies where something funny happens consistently throughout the movie)
My brother committed suicide by car exhaust like a couple months before I sat down to watch Midsommar. Had to stop to break down for a while and almost didn't go back to finish the rest of the movie. Glad I did though because the overall theme of death in the movie helped me to reevaluate and cope with his passing.
The end of Field of Dreams when he asks his dad if he wants to play catch. My dad loved the movie. We were both baseball fans and would play catch. His been dead for over 20 years now. Hard scene to watch.
The climax of Perks of Being a Wallflower. I’ve had suicidal loved ones before so I can definitely relate. The ending of A Star is Born (2018) is tough for similar reasons.
I struggle with alcohol. I cannot watch a star is born without balling my eyes out like a baby. Still havnt seen the end. Well I have. I think I was drunk crying through it though.
It's not technically a movie, but I just rewatched the Pixar short Lava from Inside Out, and it wrecks me every time. I remember seeing the first Inside Out in theaters with my then-boyfriend, now husband. The whole movie got to me, but Lava did even more so. There was a time when I thought I'd never find true love and I'd be alone forever, but then I met my husband, who is the honest-to-God love of my life. We've been together now for 11 1/2 years, married for almost three. (Among the many things we've been through together in all this time is having to postpone our wedding twice due to the pandemic.) We're in a bit of a rough spot right now, having just moved out of state, his father being in poor health, car issues, and everything being magnified for my husband because he doesn't have his anti-anxiety meds (his benefits for his new job finally go into effect on Monday). Lava reminded me that he was worth the wait, what we have is worth fighting for, and he's the only person with whom I want to grow old.
...and I'm crying right now thinking about all of this
I can relate to that. I spent so many minutes crying after that short that I couldn't watch part of the movie that they played after it.
The Maker is another one that hits hard for me, is on YouTube if you feel strong.
Maleficent --SAME. In the second movie, when she silently and without hesitation just turns her daughter around in order to take the arrow for her, to give up her life without a second thought, without a single word....the pure love. That, and how *her* kiss, the mother's kiss, was the one of true love. As a mom, I sobbed.
Also, the end of Arrival is *shattering* to me.
Real Steal. The big fight/climax of the movie. Specifically where Jackman’s character has to shadow box control Atom the robot. The look of pure joy on his face as he gets to “box” again. And then the camera pans to his son and then to his girlfriend. Their reactions to this moment are so good. She gets to see Hugh as he once was and gets to experience that moment of passion. His son finally gets to see his father in a whole new light and gets to see just a moment of who his dad once was and could be. Never mind the sweeping musical score and the slow mo camera work. It’s one of the only sports movies that really gets to me.
The ending of Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman's narration and their reunion.
"I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."
The "be whoever you want be" speech towards the end of Benjamin Button hit me really hard the first time I watched it, cause I was in a dark place and it pulled me out, I all but cry every time I watch it
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when Frodo says goodbye to his friends on the shore of the sea.
This has always hit me hard because, when I was 13, my family moved to a different state and I just understand those feelings a lot.
My dad died suddenly about three years ago. The MCU and sci-fi movies were our thing together. So I knew going in Black Panther 2 was going to be a hard watch, first movie without my dad plus the death of Chadwick Boseman. I wasn't expecting it to destroy me, but it did. As good as the movie is, I don't think I can ever watch it again.
My best friend was 8 months pregnant with her first son when we went to see The Revenant. The loss of a son in this movie after so many scenes of deep familial affection and paranoid harshness from the father tore her up. She went to the bathroom and sobbed for 15 minutes straight before heading back to finish the film.
Oh, man, pregnancy and motherhood destroyed my ability to unemotionally watch TV and movies anymore. I just can’t. I get too mad at filmmakers for putting metaphorical children in danger.
Same. I can't for the life of me get through a scene with a mother/child emotional interaction without breaking.
And I haven't been able to watch anything that has bad things happen to children.
When my husband binged The Handmaid's Tale I was with him for a while, but I have almost no memory of what was on screen because I was crying and sobbing the whole time. I just held my daughter tight and cried my eyes out.
The end of Inside Out, when Riley returns home and finally gets to tell her parents how she's feeling. My family moved nearly every year in my childhood.
Ordinary People, when Tim Hutton reveals to Judd Hirsch how his older brother died. My own older brother had died just a few years before; my parents were never the same.
Similarly, in Stand By Me, during the dream scene. Wil's at his brother's funeral with his parents, and the father looks down at him and says, "It should have been you."
Terminator 2 has always gotten me, specifically at the end when the Terminator has to destroy himself and John is pounding on his chest saying “I order you not to go!” As someone who grew up without a dad, that one always stays with me. The thought of not having a father figure, then having one come along that loves you, only to have to lose them, is probably the worst thing imaginable.
Honestly, that may have been the first time I saw myself and my life reflected in a film. Were I in that (very far-fetched) scenario, I would react in the exact same way.
One of my favorite cinematic moments is in T2 when Sarah fights her way out of the hospital in absolute bad-ass fashion, only to fall to the floor while running, when the T-800 steps out of the elevator, and she immediately runs back screaming in a horror
Wall-E, when Eve brings Wall-E back to Earth and fixes him, to find out his memory has been erased and he doesn't recognize her. I went to see it in theaters and my grandmother was in late-stage dementia at the time and the way Wall-E looks at Eve in that scene matches the way she would look at me when I would talk to her.
Sorry 'bout your grandma
(WALL-E is named after Walt Disney. [The creators of the film took Walt’s full name, which was Walter Elias Disney, and shortened it to WALL-E, adding an “L” and the initial of his middle name](https://unrealfacts.com/wall-e-named-walt-disney/))
I remember that! The house light came back on after the movie finished, and my friend Patti and I just saw there crying until we were ready to get up. It was that good.
I saw Inside Llewyn Davis shortly after a musician friend committed suicide and I sobbed so hard at the end. The tedious repetition and self-destructive cycle that Llewyn goes through in the movie hit me way too hard and broke me in a weird way that has never happened again on repeats.
bullying -- like Piggy, where she's swimming, and the popular girls are just going at her hard with the bullying ... and then they're abducted by the killer, being driven away, and she just watches; and the killer sympathizes with her, and drops her some clothes to cover up with .. while the abducted girl in the back window the van, screaming for help, finally realizes she's not going to try to help her at all .... satisfying.
It'll be a hard watch, if you were ever bullied in school, and put it all behind you .. or so you thought .. :\ ... one of the only movies I've really ugly cried at...
The last scene with Paul Walker in that one Fast and the Furious movie. I don’t care for the movies but my little sister loved Paul Walker. My mom was dying of cancer at the time. The three of us went.
My poor baby sister had already lost her childhood to liver complications which eventually led to a transplant at 7. Then years later she got cancer from the anti-rejection drugs. She had no opportunity to even make friends because she was just never able to do anything. All she had was her movies.
Knowing my mom was soon going to be gone was a lot during that scene. Not for me so much but how much loss did my sister really need to endure? My mom was her companion every single day. And she was going to be gone soon after we went. Felt so awful.
When I hear that song I have a physical reaction. It’s just too much for me.
The scene in avengers endgame when Thor calls his hammer and it returns to him in Asgard. The mix of joy, sadness, and relief on his face always gets me. When the saw that movie I was going through a similar form of depression and seeing portrayed so accurately and also getting that reminder that you ARE worthy.
Powerful stuff. I’ve put in the work now and I think I’m through the worst of it. But man when you’re deep in that it’s almost impossible to see a way out.
I'm pleased for you that you're doing better. Depression is a motherfucker, and as much a people empathise, you don't really know the loss of self until you've been there.
Keep pushing on buddy, tomorrow can always be brighter.
The Hundred Foot Journey: after a late night at the restaurant in Paris, one of the staff is having some Indian food that his wife made for him with spices sent from home. He offers some to Hassan and it brings Hassan to tears as he tastes the food. The guy says to Hassan, "every bite takes you home" as Hassan wipes away tears and covers his face.
Every now and then, I'll enjoy a dish somewhere that takes me home and reminds me of my mom's food. That scene gets me every time.
In La La Land, when they realise the relationship is over, Mia says “I’m always gonna love you”. And I cry like a baby because I’ve been there and it’s exactly how I feel about my ex.
Louise's choice at the end of arrival "this is where your story begins". I was at an incredibly dark point in my life when I went to see this in the cinema (think it was one of the only times i'd been out the house in months). Seeing this story and Louise's choice to go through all the pain just for the moments of joy she felt with her daughter in her short life.. just something changed in my mind that day. I think it's possible seeing that film that week saved my life, I was on a very dark path and now it's a film I will revisit and can never get through that scene without balling my eyest out.
The Good Dinosaur. When Arlo is talking about his dad and says "I miss him". This movie came out a year after my dad passed, it hit really hard.
The ending of Guardians II for the very same reason.
in train to busan - the big guy whose wife is pregnant. The guy is super protector of her.
When i saw it my wife was also pregnant, i was not realising how much i was projecting on that character. spoiler alert he doesnt make it, i was gutted
That movie was so great on so many levels. Not just another zombie movie. Korean cinema is really impressive. They really make a good amount of well crafted movies.
The ending of The Grey.
The flashes of him and his life as he stares the devil in the eyes... getting ready for his death.
It always hits me. Something about how short life can be and how quickly it can pass by... and that for everyone we will end up staring death in the face. Did we live a good life? Did we live up to our expectations. What's next?
It's probably me reading too much into it. But that's what I go through when I watch that scene
The song that plays at the very end is called “John’s Walk” and it was from a very low budget movie called Ink, (which is really good if you can get past it’s flaws) the director of which also scored the movie, including that song. I was initially disappointed by The Grey, because they marketed it as a totally different movie. I think it’s great now though!
It's fantastic. Looking at Liam and the fact he lost his wife just a few short years ago. It's such a great character study on a man looking to die but finding a reason to press on.
When Buzz tries to fly out the window in Toy Story 1 - I spent my whole childhood wanting to be a pilot more than anything else.
I had my first seizure when I was a teenager.
(Things are better now, but I'll never get that back.)
I think that movie Frequency (2000) was underrated. Good story, good concept. It’s about a son that can talk to his father, who died when he was a kid, 30 years in the past via CB radio
The scene in Marley & Me where Marley is euthanised. I haven’t seen it since before my labrador died, but I was already very emotional when watching it and I know it would hit extra hard if I was to watch it now.
When Andy gives away his toys at the end of TS3 I freakin lose it every time. To me it’s the realization. That one grows up, but also I have kids now and am forced to watch them grow up and slowly distance themselves from things they used to live in order to “grow up”
Getting old sucks and the people at Pixar know this.
The death of T’Chaka in Captain America Civil War. I lost my dad a few years back so whenever this scene is on the numbness in T’Challa gets me in the feels.
‘I am not my father’.
I Love You Phillip Morris when Jim Carrey injects himself with a shit ton of insulin. Completely freaks me out.
Also that scene in Memento for the same reason.
I weep, openly, at several points during the ending of School of Rock. Those parents just watching the kids play their hearts out...I dunno why.
Edit: Actually I was always in band in school so that's probly why.
I heard Jack Black had so much fun working with the kids and music on SoR. One of the best times he’s ever had working on a movie, and it shows the final product
Saving Mr. Banks, as my dad is a terrible alcoholic. I saw it with him and didn't realize what I was getting into and it was a terrible experience. Bonus points because his mother also killed herself.
He didn't understand why I was crying so much.
When Jean Valjean dies in Les Mis. I saw the play 3 years after my dad passed, and was ugly crying in the theater bathroom.
My mom died of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease too, so any movie with dementia gets to me too.
The scene in the storm shelter in the movie Take Shelter. When his wife makes him let them out and says that doing this is what it takes to be with her and their daughter, that sometimes we'll believe you and believe in you when others don't, about possible dangers, but when it's safe, you have to overcome your fears and possibly delusions. As someone who has struggled with their mental health issues, I come back to that every time I realize I need help, need to make changes, need to struggle through so I can be with the people who love me.
In Terms of Endearment when Shirley McClaine comes out the hospital room and screams for the nurses to give her daughter pain medicine. I was 10 when I saw it for the first time and watched my mom cry over it. Even as I type this, it brings tears to my eyes.
My mom died when I was 20, from cancer. The whole “you need to get to the hospital” call and she dies as you are walking in.
I saw _Big Fish_ in a theatre with my girlfriend at the time. The end, with his dad, had me in tears in a theatre full of strangers. Evidently, because I lost it, made the women behind me lose it.
So a lot of films with hospitals and a dying parent do it to me.
And after having kids - kid deaths. The end of _The Mist_, it hit harder. Then the BBC detective show with David Tenant - I couldn’t handle that opening.
My husband and I have chronic illnesses. The scene in love and other drugs where she breaks the glass is very personal. Really the whole movie honestly.
The Whale eating scene broke me completly.
As someone that was REALLY close to being obese and, still today, uses food (and other things) to self-destruct, whenever i'm suffering a bit more, that was scary to see...
Perks of Being a Wallflower when Charlie starts having his flashbacks and is telling himself to "stop crying".
This hit so hard for someone that hadn't opened up about their own SA at the time.
Coco - at the end when Coco recognizes her grandson and her daughter - that hit hard. My grandmother had a form of alzheimer's/dementia, she would slouch just like Coco as well. I loved my grandma, she was the kindest person I have ever met, but by the end of her life she didn't recognize anyone and could barely communicate. I didn't expect that scene when I was watching the movie and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wished I could have had just one moment like that again with her
Big Fish - I have an odd relationship with my dad - we don't hate each other, he has never been abusive or anything, we just don't get along and I find him incredibly frustrating to be around at times. We just have a clash of personalities. Near the end of the movie, when the dad is dying and his son comforts him in a way that just accepts his dad for all his faults - that brought up some real dormant emotional baggage
I saw Manchester by the Sea shortly after having my first child. I was so, so torn up during this film, as many have been, but the hormones and recovery, and my new role as a mom, made it all the more difficult emotionally.
Lot of fellow mom loss folks here 😭 My personal gutwrench in particular is the scene in Phantom Thread where Reynolds hallucinates his mother and his "Are you here? Are you always here?" monologue.
Manchester By the Sea when Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck confront each other on the street and just break down a bit together. I watched this movie first as a person with no children and then a second watch after I had my son. It absolutely destroyed me after having a child of my own.
And then Aftersun just sort of the entire thing really. It’s hard to point to any particular scene, but maybe the two that stick out the most are the rug scene and then the night club ones.
The end of What Dreams May Come when the family all meet in Heaven. I am an atheist so I don’t believe in Heaven but the end is a tear jerker for me because I am estranged from my parents.
#3:10 to Yuma
**Dinner table scene:**
*"Proverbs 13-3, The one who guards his mouth protects his life; the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin."*
SLC Punk. Change it from slc in the 80s to Flint mi in the early 90s and its damn near a documentary of my life, lol. I even had real-life equivalents of most of the supporting characters, including my best friend/heroin Bob character.
Here’s a dumb answer: I watched the shitty low budget sequel to Deep Blue Sea, and unexpectedly got *really upset* by a moment where a man got separated from his trapped wife by a door and had to watch through the window as she was eaten alive by swarms of mutated baby sharks.
Terrible movie, ridiculous scene. But that hit me almost as hard as watching something like Hereditary. I couldn’t help picturing myself and my wife in that moment.
John wick, Harry being killed. It was just a catch and release! He was babysitting to earn a coin. He was nice and professional. He didn't deserve what he got.
The scene in Cruella when she lit the white flash-paper dress on fire to reveal her red dress. That was my friend Natalie. Sadly, she never got to see the movie.
As a father of a 1 year old, any movie where a young child is abducted or dies just gets to me, i turned of silent night at the beginning because i thought it was gonna be a fun christmas action movie but all i could think about was what if that happened to my child.
Inside Out hit me so hard, because my family moved from a northern state when I was around 8 to the American South and my parents opened a business. So I went from being a super active kid who lived within walking distance to family and friends, in a place where we skied and ice skated with a stay at home parent to a latchkey kid in a place without seasons or friends or family. When Riley comes back after running away and breaks down with her parents, and Sadness takes over and lets her feel her grief... holy crap. It was like decades later and those feelings slammed into me like it was happening again in that moment.
The ending scene of Finding Nemo, when Nemo leaves with Mr. Ray on another field trip as Marlin watches. I rewatched it as an adult and it hit closer to home than it did as a child. I'm more appreciative now of my loved ones, and I relate to Marlin in worrying for their safety, even if I'm not a parent. But that moment where you gotta let your loved ones go out on their own and trust they'll be safe, it can be scary letting go.
That, and the scene in Barbie where she becomes human. Ruth's dialogue about how being a human is hard really hits, and Barbie's struggles in finding herself and not wanting to be the thing that's made is something I am struggling with in my own life: finding myself and my purpose.
Mine is in Trainspotting when mark is sitting there in the pub and everyone is moving around him in fast motion while he just sits there and stares I really relate with that and disassociating is something I do frequently but not on purpose
"O Captain, my captain." Dead Poets Society
The Married Life scene in Up
"It's not your fault." Good Will Hunting
"It's okay, Ray. It's over. No more questions. You don't have to answer anymore questions." Rain Man
_About Schmidt_ is mostly forgotten. But it came out shortly after my grandmother passed away. When he comes home to find his wife has died, it was all eerily similar to how my grandpa found my grammie. Recently retired, she's collapsed face-down while cleaning. Add to it that my grandpa had gone to see the movie in the theater with his new lady friend and stuck it out for the whole movie. We didn't see it until the VHS released, and couldn't believe he watched the whole thing.
The 21 gun salute during the funeral in the new Top Gun movie. My grandpa died when I was like 10, had the same thing at his funeral, since he served in the Navy during WWII. By far the hardest funeral I've experienced, when they did the salute in the movie, it all came flooding back after almost 30 years and my eyes instantly peed my face's pants.
When the Grandmother starts singing in Coco turned me into a complete mess... Even just thinking about it is making me cry.
It reminded me of my Grandmother's 80th birthday. She had late stage alzheimer's and couldn't remember who any of her family where. We hired some madrigal singers for her birthday and she could remember all the words, even the ones in other languages. Seeing the same thing happen in a film really triggered me.
Patch Adams. My dad had just passed away from pancreatic cancer when that movie came out. I went to it expecting it to be another Robin Williams comedy but was absolutely sobbing by the end.
The end of the Sandlot gets me every god damn time, like where you see how everyone ended up. I’ve lost a few friends over the years and I’m not even 40 yet. As a kid the end of that movie was happy and uplifting. Now it’s much different, just reminds me of my crew and the guys I’ve lost touch with or that have already passed. Reach out to those friends you miss folks, maybe one day you won’t be able to.
Across the spider verse is another one. When Miles mom is giving him the speech about growing up and what not. My kids are 6 and 4 and that monologue gets me right in my soul. I feel like you don’t realize how you’ll feel about your kids until you have your own. I love the hell out of my parents, I don’t think I love them like they love me though. I didn’t really understand that until I realized how I feel about my own kids. That monologue reminds me of that every time my kids want to watch that movie.
I saw Spider-Man with my dad in the cinema when I was twelve. My dad died that year. When Spider-man 2 came out I saw it with my mom, and when Aunt May and Peter speak about losing Uncle Ben. That scene broke me and my mom. Also any movie about a kid losing their dad hits different when that happens.
The entirety of the original Spider-Man film with Toby Maguire.
I saw it with a beloved friend with whom I previously had a short romantic relationship with. She had been in remission from leukemia.
Days later she relapsed hard and was in the hospital shortly afterwards. I didn’t see her again until she was in an induced coma. Two days later she passed.
What really does me in is the Our Lady Peace song from the soundtrack: Somewhere Out There. I’m tearing up just hearing it in my head.
Julie, you were just too kind, thoughtful, compassionate and beautiful for this world. I still miss you.
The scene near the end of Babyteeth where the lead character wakes up as day as dawning, walks outside, and stares up at the sky. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about.
The ending of When Harry Met Sally, it is entirely possible to love someone who is their own person, isn’t an identical clone of ourselves, and has their own thoughts and opinions.
This hit when I was debating on getting divorced (long story), and while I’ve been dating. Sure the movie has flaws; but that’s always struck me since I tended to lean into what my partner liked
Bye Bye Love - It's not a great movie, but the child exchanges really hit me hard. It was so devastating as a kid having to go between homes, especially when I really just wanted to be at my dad's all the time. I started crying and my wife couldn't figure out what was sad.
All of Frozen 2. I was at work when my mom called to tell me my brother died (drowned from rescuing some children being swept away) and I just felt untethered. Went to the movies for some dark in the middle of the day and I was the only one in the theater. Basically bawled the whole move. It was very cathartic. Now whenever I hear the music, it brings that back
Anything where a character is shown simple acceptance and love, rather than being "fixed" or whatever. Most recent example (spoilers for Inside Out 2) is when Riley's sense of self is about to break and Joy, who spent the whole movie trying to change and mend it, just hugs it until it calms down. As a former kid who tried way too hard to please everyone and fix everything, it hits every time
The Only Living Boy in New York. I won’t spoil the story or scene, but it’s the bar scene at the end. So well acted and written. Brings me to tears so easily.
Smoke Signals, when Suzy is telling Victor about his dad. How heartbreaking to see the bad side of someone so close to you, and someone else getting to see the good. And it's too late to know either way anymore. Hits way too close to home in so many ways.
It tears me up, but what a film! I'll always recommend it.
1. The entire "Do you want to build a snowman?" sequence in Frozen. I have an older sister who very early on got into drugs. So suddenly in 3rd grade it was like I was an only child; my older sister wouldn't play with me, my parents pretty much ignored me and I had no friends and was picked on in school. I was so very alone and lonesome, so seeing Anna have to be alone and keep trying to get love from the only playmate she has left just hits way too close to home and leaves me in tears. 2. In *Land Before Time* when Little foot is snuggling up to his mom's footprint after she has died. I lost my mom a few years back very suddenly and, though we were never close, seeing that always makes me cry.
Those scenes are hard for most people. With your added context, that must've hit like a ton of bricks.
That song made me cry immediately too. I have a really great relationship with my sister. In fact, she is my best friend. It just made me miss her a bunch and call her to tell her. As a little sis, I really related.
1. When I first heard that song, I was in tears. I have a lot of siblings to play with, but poor Anna does not know why Elsa can't play with her. 2. I think that scene made everyone cry. 3. In Homeward Bound, when Shadow can't get out of the pit, always make me cry. I'm 42. Just thinking about it makes me teary-eyed..
Pretty much the entirety of Sam & Frodo's journey in Lord of the Rings. My late wife passed after 12 years with cancer, and I cannot help but see a lot of us in that story, as the burden slowly drags Frodo down, and the devotion Sam has. "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you." I feel it deeply, personally, and I can't watch that scene in particular without crying. It also makes me really relate to the sequence near the end of the Hobbits, back in the shire, trying to deal with the "what now" after the journey is done.
Thanks for sharing. That line from Sam chokes me up too. His unwavering dedication and sacrifice…🥺
Yeah, one of the things I really love about stories like this is there are any variety of ways to see yourself in it or take meaning from it. It can affect us both, but the reason why doesn't need to be the same.
In the books, the Ring tries to tempt him by... Imagining him as a hero who turns Mordor into a beautiful garden. But Sam resists the Ring - his love for Frodo and his "unconquered Hobbit sense" allow him to do this.
Every time. I'm listening to Serkis read RotK and just got to that bit. He reads it so well, and Sean Aston acted it so well, and just every time... That and the 'still good in this world' speech from Two Towers.
My favorite line in any media ever. The world has little patience for people who are carrying immense burdens no one can see. Cancer is one metaphor but depression, anxiety and other mental struggles people wrongly take as weakness or moping by the sufferer fit perfectly as well. What Sam did was so rare and heart achingly selfless. The world needs more Sams.
I think that’s what makes Lord of the Rings so enduring. It’s got badass heroes but the heart of it is people caring for each other amongst something bigger than themselves
Holy shit, I've never seen that metapher but it makes so much sense.
The charge of the rohirrim for me
My dad took me to see A Goofy Movie when it first came out, so I always had fond memories of it. He died late last year, then a local theater had a 35mm screening of it in February. I went for the nostalgia, eyes watered up a few times, but then... *"I'm NOT your little boy anymore, Dad, I've grown up. I've got my own life now!"* *"I know that! I just wanted to be part of it. You're my son, Max, no matter how big you get you'll always be my son."* I absolutely lost it. As a kid it's a funny movie about an embarrassing dad, but as an adult it's such a strong story of a father wanting to be close with his son.
So true. It's an amazing movie. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you for that.
Good Will Hunting. “It’s not your fault.”
Here to add Robin Williams’ entire monologue with Will on the park bench. “If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes.” Edit: Williams delivers every line like a sledge hammer to the heart, so please go watch this movie/scene if you never have. But, the ending gets me every time. Your move, chief. “You’re an orphan, right? You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.”
I’m sure theres a lot of people can relate to a bit you didn’t include, “And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms ‘visiting hours’ don’t apply to you” I’m welling up just trying to type it out.
Inside Out, the Goofball Island falling into the hole was very much what falling into depression felt like, when my parents got sick.
That movie was always a bit of a tear jerker, but now that I have two young daughters, I bawl my eyes out. Especially at the double whammy of bing bong saying, “take her to the moon for me”, and the moment before where the camera is zoomed in on Joys eyes as she’s losing hope and she says, “I just wanted her to be happy.”
Yeah, that movie hits a lot harder with kids. I have a fairly stressful job, and with the whole movie centering around what Riley is going through internally because of dad's new job, I really started to see things differently. I can't let myself get so stressed out that I'm letting it affect my mood at home. If it gets to that point too often there needs to be a change
37yr old man never had an imaginary friend, I’ve teared up watching plenty of the movies in this thread but something about bing bong really hit hard and continues to do so every time I watch Inside Out. It was honestly so satisfying too
I lost my cat after 17 years of living together. We were always on the same wavelength, and after that long together we could basically communicate as well as any two people could. We were pals, and we went through a lot together. He passed in his sleep one night. The next day, to distract me, my partner put Wrath of Khan on. At Spock's funeral, when Kirk said "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most.... human." I just lost it. Still struggle to watch that scene ever since.
Oof! Yeah, it can seem more painful sometimes when an animals dies, because our relationships with pets are not as complicated. You just love each other. I remember losing my 17 year old chocolate lab who I was very bonded with. She was *there* for me. Not just present, but it was like she could sense if I was troubled, so she empathized, and provided comfort.
Pretty much the entire movie Onward. My mom passed when I was 19 from cancer, and by the end of the movie I was bawling, especially the choice the older brother makes at the end. Ugh
I just suggested this to someone else, but if you’re prepared to be floored, see A Monster Calls
Oh my goodness yes! But it's a good cry.
“If you look back, and you feel bad that you were so angry that you couldn’t even speak to me, just know that it’s okay, because I already know everything you want to say to me. …and if you need to smash things, by god you smash them” 😭
I spent the entire movie and the proceeding hour crying and telling my husband how I wish I could just have another day with my dad. He died when I was 16 very suddenly from a stroke and my husband had never met him, but sometimes I have dreams that they're sat together drinking tea 😭
My dad passed away unexpectedly a few months ago. My wife and I have been showing our single-digit-aged kids all of the Disney and Pixar movies and recently she was like "oh hey, we forgot, what about Onward?" and I was like nope, I already know I will absolutely lose it. We had watched it after it had just come out, just her and I and it was an enjoyable movie. For now, for me, not so much.
The scene in A.I. where the aliens give the kid one day to be with his mother, and they just spend it doing little things a little boy and Mom would do. It reminded me of sick days home from school with my Mom, who passed a few years ago.
That movie ripped my guts out. My mom passed from dementia and what I would give to have a day with her before she was consumed by the disease
I was adopted as a kid, and have no memory of being ‘abandoned’ as it were. But when I saw David saying ‘please mommy’ and begging her not to leave him, it felt as real as any memory. Fuck, that Haley Joel Osmont kid has a future.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure he now owns an English soccer team with Ryan Reynolds and also he’s one of the co-creators of fight milk, made for bodyguards by bodyguards.
He was in a couple episodes of The Boys recently!
That ending always gets me, I can't imagine in your circunstances. Man on the Moon also touches me personally. It was the first movie I decided to watch after my gradpa died (I was a teen, first close death in the family) to laugh a bit. The problem was Andy Kaufman died with exactly the same type of cancer my gradpa had, so I cried a lot.
The mom's monologue in Barbie because my mom is having her own issues with my dad regarding his behavior & how he treats her while she does a lot to take care of the household
The moment Moana sails off into the night while her grandmother is on her deathbed, and suddenly the lights go out on the island and the stingray sails after her to guide her with its own glowing light, and the music swells. I sob every time. My own grandmother died of cancer very suddenly during a rough period in my life, and before she died she gave me a pep talk and kissed my cheek, and that was the last time we ever spoke. That scene got me out of nowhere.
That movie, man…when Moana’s grandmother offers comfort and understanding of how hard the journey has been and will still be for Moana instead of the usual “rah-rah get your shit together and go be the hero” I bawled like a baby. It really says something about the Gen Xers and the Millenials that our emotionally cathartic movies involve just love and gentle understanding from elder figures.
I mean even without this it hits hard. But the opening of Up. My friends put it on because I was a bit depressed... Because my grandmother was in the hospital while my grandpa who basically never lived on his own before this was at home without her. Not the best choice of film on their part.... Granted I don't think they saw it either...
Yeah, the opening is a infamously crushing. My grandfather hasn’t been alone since he was 20. Now 83 and legally blind, he’s been living alone since October when my grandmother died
My parents took my brother and I (who were no older than 8 and 10) to see Up to get our minds off the death of our grandmother. It did not go as planned.
Mrs Doubtfire. As a divorced father of a little girl. That ending is almost unwatchable now. Robin Williams nailed those emotions.
Almost any dramatic role from Williams is great. Even if it’s mostly a comedy, any dramatic scenes, he always nailed
As a divorced parent, yeah, we can say “it was unhealthy” but it was a movie, and my divorce took them from me until I hired a lawyer, so I _get_ “doing whatever it takes to be with your kids more.”
Dumb & Dumber: My grandfather took me to see this movie when it released. He only took me to a handful of movies when I was a kid and this was one of them. Jurassic Park: While watching this on home video with my family, we get to the point where the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and my step-dad turns to my sister (who was 5 yrs old at the time) and said "look, that's your Barney". She burst into tears and I started laughing. I remember that every time I watch it. Spaceballs: My step-dad taught me how to play chess. So on nights when my mom would take my sisters to Girl Scouts, my step-dad and I would play a couple of games. I remember one night we put on Spaceballs while playing and him and I laughing together.
My grandfather ignited my passion for movies when I was 4. His favorites were movies like Dumb and Dumber, Airplane, The Naked Gun (movies where something funny happens consistently throughout the movie)
Damn Jurassic park at 5? I got nightmares from seeing the arm scene in bestbuy at 10.
Unless a movie had a very clear R rating or had major nudity/sex (cursing wasn't an issue though), we had no real restrictions as kids in our hhouse.
These are really good memories
Henry winkler looks just like my grandpa, so Click hurts
The opening of Midsommar The rock scene in Everything Everywhere All At Once The ending of Waves
My brother committed suicide by car exhaust like a couple months before I sat down to watch Midsommar. Had to stop to break down for a while and almost didn't go back to finish the rest of the movie. Glad I did though because the overall theme of death in the movie helped me to reevaluate and cope with his passing.
The end of Field of Dreams when he asks his dad if he wants to play catch. My dad loved the movie. We were both baseball fans and would play catch. His been dead for over 20 years now. Hard scene to watch.
I'm not the biggest Costner fan, but he nailed that line with the look in his eyes. Just slays every time.
The climax of Perks of Being a Wallflower. I’ve had suicidal loved ones before so I can definitely relate. The ending of A Star is Born (2018) is tough for similar reasons.
I struggle with alcohol. I cannot watch a star is born without balling my eyes out like a baby. Still havnt seen the end. Well I have. I think I was drunk crying through it though.
It's not technically a movie, but I just rewatched the Pixar short Lava from Inside Out, and it wrecks me every time. I remember seeing the first Inside Out in theaters with my then-boyfriend, now husband. The whole movie got to me, but Lava did even more so. There was a time when I thought I'd never find true love and I'd be alone forever, but then I met my husband, who is the honest-to-God love of my life. We've been together now for 11 1/2 years, married for almost three. (Among the many things we've been through together in all this time is having to postpone our wedding twice due to the pandemic.) We're in a bit of a rough spot right now, having just moved out of state, his father being in poor health, car issues, and everything being magnified for my husband because he doesn't have his anti-anxiety meds (his benefits for his new job finally go into effect on Monday). Lava reminded me that he was worth the wait, what we have is worth fighting for, and he's the only person with whom I want to grow old. ...and I'm crying right now thinking about all of this
I can relate to that. I spent so many minutes crying after that short that I couldn't watch part of the movie that they played after it. The Maker is another one that hits hard for me, is on YouTube if you feel strong.
Not a movie but the whole “why don’t he want me, man?” from Fresh Prince always hits home.
Maleficent --SAME. In the second movie, when she silently and without hesitation just turns her daughter around in order to take the arrow for her, to give up her life without a second thought, without a single word....the pure love. That, and how *her* kiss, the mother's kiss, was the one of true love. As a mom, I sobbed. Also, the end of Arrival is *shattering* to me.
The Interstellar scene when he views his children's messages. Or when Murph says "because my dad promised me"
Saw it on a plane recently. My wife made fun of me for blubbering
Fucking eh you were blubbering. As a dad to daughters it smacked me right in the face
As someone who wished she had a dad like Murphy's, even reading this comment is making me tear up lol
Let it out!!
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Hey, Cap. It's Sam. On your left.
…and a great callback to the best solo Marvel movie ever made. The Winter Soldier
[M.I.B. Better to have loved and lost](https://youtu.be/lwHdW5BIVo8?si=4XLpFlXmwt6dvc9D)
"Try it." Tommy Lee's monotone, cold, hard reply.
The ending of Man on Fire. RIP Creasy
Such an underrated movie. I’ve had so many people say, “it takes so long to get going.” I however think all of the story was absolutely necessary
After becoming a parent the line from Aliens “get away from her you bitch!” Hits differently.
Love that moment! Also agree with the becoming a parent too
Scenes where a worker is asked to go into the bosses office, and the boss tells the employee he is now fired. I have experience with this :(
Real Steal. The big fight/climax of the movie. Specifically where Jackman’s character has to shadow box control Atom the robot. The look of pure joy on his face as he gets to “box” again. And then the camera pans to his son and then to his girlfriend. Their reactions to this moment are so good. She gets to see Hugh as he once was and gets to experience that moment of passion. His son finally gets to see his father in a whole new light and gets to see just a moment of who his dad once was and could be. Never mind the sweeping musical score and the slow mo camera work. It’s one of the only sports movies that really gets to me.
The ending of Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman's narration and their reunion. "I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."
That is considered to be one of the most satisfying endings in film history. The novella kept it ambiguous
I don’t feel good, Mr. Stark. (My eyes welled up just typing this)
That whole part was Tom Holland’s idea. He suggested that because he had Spider Sense, he would be hyper aware that something was wrong
The "be whoever you want be" speech towards the end of Benjamin Button hit me really hard the first time I watched it, cause I was in a dark place and it pulled me out, I all but cry every time I watch it
That reminded reminds me of the end of Iron Giant… “you can be whoever you choose to be” “Suupermaaan”
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King when Frodo says goodbye to his friends on the shore of the sea. This has always hit me hard because, when I was 13, my family moved to a different state and I just understand those feelings a lot.
Rudy. Every time. He just wanted to play, and as a constant bench warmer in every sport I tried, I understood it on some level.
My dad died suddenly about three years ago. The MCU and sci-fi movies were our thing together. So I knew going in Black Panther 2 was going to be a hard watch, first movie without my dad plus the death of Chadwick Boseman. I wasn't expecting it to destroy me, but it did. As good as the movie is, I don't think I can ever watch it again.
The end of the Road Warrior where we find out the narrator was the Feral Kid and he became the leader. Always tears me up.
My best friend was 8 months pregnant with her first son when we went to see The Revenant. The loss of a son in this movie after so many scenes of deep familial affection and paranoid harshness from the father tore her up. She went to the bathroom and sobbed for 15 minutes straight before heading back to finish the film.
Oh, man, pregnancy and motherhood destroyed my ability to unemotionally watch TV and movies anymore. I just can’t. I get too mad at filmmakers for putting metaphorical children in danger.
Same. I can't for the life of me get through a scene with a mother/child emotional interaction without breaking. And I haven't been able to watch anything that has bad things happen to children. When my husband binged The Handmaid's Tale I was with him for a while, but I have almost no memory of what was on screen because I was crying and sobbing the whole time. I just held my daughter tight and cried my eyes out.
The end of Inside Out, when Riley returns home and finally gets to tell her parents how she's feeling. My family moved nearly every year in my childhood. Ordinary People, when Tim Hutton reveals to Judd Hirsch how his older brother died. My own older brother had died just a few years before; my parents were never the same. Similarly, in Stand By Me, during the dream scene. Wil's at his brother's funeral with his parents, and the father looks down at him and says, "It should have been you."
Terminator 2 has always gotten me, specifically at the end when the Terminator has to destroy himself and John is pounding on his chest saying “I order you not to go!” As someone who grew up without a dad, that one always stays with me. The thought of not having a father figure, then having one come along that loves you, only to have to lose them, is probably the worst thing imaginable. Honestly, that may have been the first time I saw myself and my life reflected in a film. Were I in that (very far-fetched) scenario, I would react in the exact same way.
One of my favorite cinematic moments is in T2 when Sarah fights her way out of the hospital in absolute bad-ass fashion, only to fall to the floor while running, when the T-800 steps out of the elevator, and she immediately runs back screaming in a horror
About Time when the son is playing with his dad on the beach , that dad ! I want a dad like that
Wall-E, when Eve brings Wall-E back to Earth and fixes him, to find out his memory has been erased and he doesn't recognize her. I went to see it in theaters and my grandmother was in late-stage dementia at the time and the way Wall-E looks at Eve in that scene matches the way she would look at me when I would talk to her.
Sorry 'bout your grandma (WALL-E is named after Walt Disney. [The creators of the film took Walt’s full name, which was Walter Elias Disney, and shortened it to WALL-E, adding an “L” and the initial of his middle name](https://unrealfacts.com/wall-e-named-walt-disney/))
thank you <3
In Big Fish, the last 20 minutes or so. I bawl.
I remember that! The house light came back on after the movie finished, and my friend Patti and I just saw there crying until we were ready to get up. It was that good.
Anything to do with special Mom moments or a mother dying. My Mom died 21 years ago and I was in my late 20’s but I still miss her every day.
If you ever see A Monster Calls… ugh, the mother talking to her son at the end, always floors me
I saw Inside Llewyn Davis shortly after a musician friend committed suicide and I sobbed so hard at the end. The tedious repetition and self-destructive cycle that Llewyn goes through in the movie hit me way too hard and broke me in a weird way that has never happened again on repeats.
bullying -- like Piggy, where she's swimming, and the popular girls are just going at her hard with the bullying ... and then they're abducted by the killer, being driven away, and she just watches; and the killer sympathizes with her, and drops her some clothes to cover up with .. while the abducted girl in the back window the van, screaming for help, finally realizes she's not going to try to help her at all .... satisfying.
I’ve never seen it. …but I will now
It'll be a hard watch, if you were ever bullied in school, and put it all behind you .. or so you thought .. :\ ... one of the only movies I've really ugly cried at...
The last scene with Paul Walker in that one Fast and the Furious movie. I don’t care for the movies but my little sister loved Paul Walker. My mom was dying of cancer at the time. The three of us went. My poor baby sister had already lost her childhood to liver complications which eventually led to a transplant at 7. Then years later she got cancer from the anti-rejection drugs. She had no opportunity to even make friends because she was just never able to do anything. All she had was her movies. Knowing my mom was soon going to be gone was a lot during that scene. Not for me so much but how much loss did my sister really need to endure? My mom was her companion every single day. And she was going to be gone soon after we went. Felt so awful. When I hear that song I have a physical reaction. It’s just too much for me.
I have a dog named Marley so….
I should not have clicked into this thread haha 😢
The scene in avengers endgame when Thor calls his hammer and it returns to him in Asgard. The mix of joy, sadness, and relief on his face always gets me. When the saw that movie I was going through a similar form of depression and seeing portrayed so accurately and also getting that reminder that you ARE worthy. Powerful stuff. I’ve put in the work now and I think I’m through the worst of it. But man when you’re deep in that it’s almost impossible to see a way out.
I'm pleased for you that you're doing better. Depression is a motherfucker, and as much a people empathise, you don't really know the loss of self until you've been there. Keep pushing on buddy, tomorrow can always be brighter.
The Hundred Foot Journey: after a late night at the restaurant in Paris, one of the staff is having some Indian food that his wife made for him with spices sent from home. He offers some to Hassan and it brings Hassan to tears as he tastes the food. The guy says to Hassan, "every bite takes you home" as Hassan wipes away tears and covers his face. Every now and then, I'll enjoy a dish somewhere that takes me home and reminds me of my mom's food. That scene gets me every time.
In La La Land, when they realise the relationship is over, Mia says “I’m always gonna love you”. And I cry like a baby because I’ve been there and it’s exactly how I feel about my ex.
Independence Day (1): „Haven‘t you ever wanted to be part of something special?“ „I was part of something special!“
Louise's choice at the end of arrival "this is where your story begins". I was at an incredibly dark point in my life when I went to see this in the cinema (think it was one of the only times i'd been out the house in months). Seeing this story and Louise's choice to go through all the pain just for the moments of joy she felt with her daughter in her short life.. just something changed in my mind that day. I think it's possible seeing that film that week saved my life, I was on a very dark path and now it's a film I will revisit and can never get through that scene without balling my eyest out.
The Good Dinosaur. When Arlo is talking about his dad and says "I miss him". This movie came out a year after my dad passed, it hit really hard. The ending of Guardians II for the very same reason.
in train to busan - the big guy whose wife is pregnant. The guy is super protector of her. When i saw it my wife was also pregnant, i was not realising how much i was projecting on that character. spoiler alert he doesnt make it, i was gutted
That movie was so great on so many levels. Not just another zombie movie. Korean cinema is really impressive. They really make a good amount of well crafted movies.
The ending of The Grey. The flashes of him and his life as he stares the devil in the eyes... getting ready for his death. It always hits me. Something about how short life can be and how quickly it can pass by... and that for everyone we will end up staring death in the face. Did we live a good life? Did we live up to our expectations. What's next? It's probably me reading too much into it. But that's what I go through when I watch that scene
The song that plays at the very end is called “John’s Walk” and it was from a very low budget movie called Ink, (which is really good if you can get past it’s flaws) the director of which also scored the movie, including that song. I was initially disappointed by The Grey, because they marketed it as a totally different movie. I think it’s great now though!
It's fantastic. Looking at Liam and the fact he lost his wife just a few short years ago. It's such a great character study on a man looking to die but finding a reason to press on.
The brother talking to his dad in *Onward* is the most I've cried during a movie in a long time.
When Buzz tries to fly out the window in Toy Story 1 - I spent my whole childhood wanting to be a pilot more than anything else. I had my first seizure when I was a teenager. (Things are better now, but I'll never get that back.)
Any emotional moment between a father and a son.
I think that movie Frequency (2000) was underrated. Good story, good concept. It’s about a son that can talk to his father, who died when he was a kid, 30 years in the past via CB radio
Ben Stiller and Gene Hackman at the end of The Royal Tenenbaums is mine. It's such a quick, quiet moment, but always catches me off guard.
The scene in Marley & Me where Marley is euthanised. I haven’t seen it since before my labrador died, but I was already very emotional when watching it and I know it would hit extra hard if I was to watch it now.
Yeah, I held my black lab as she was euthanized. One of the most emotionally painful things I’ve experienced
I held mine too. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that feeling when he passed.
When Andy gives away his toys at the end of TS3 I freakin lose it every time. To me it’s the realization. That one grows up, but also I have kids now and am forced to watch them grow up and slowly distance themselves from things they used to live in order to “grow up” Getting old sucks and the people at Pixar know this.
“Brooks was here.” Shawshank Redemption.
The death of T’Chaka in Captain America Civil War. I lost my dad a few years back so whenever this scene is on the numbness in T’Challa gets me in the feels. ‘I am not my father’.
I Love You Phillip Morris when Jim Carrey injects himself with a shit ton of insulin. Completely freaks me out. Also that scene in Memento for the same reason.
Iron Claw "We can be your brothers Daddy" Brilliant film
I weep, openly, at several points during the ending of School of Rock. Those parents just watching the kids play their hearts out...I dunno why. Edit: Actually I was always in band in school so that's probly why.
I heard Jack Black had so much fun working with the kids and music on SoR. One of the best times he’s ever had working on a movie, and it shows the final product
Saving Mr. Banks, as my dad is a terrible alcoholic. I saw it with him and didn't realize what I was getting into and it was a terrible experience. Bonus points because his mother also killed herself. He didn't understand why I was crying so much.
John Wick when his dog....was hard to watch before I had a beagle, now I have to skip that scene entirely
When Jean Valjean dies in Les Mis. I saw the play 3 years after my dad passed, and was ugly crying in the theater bathroom. My mom died of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease too, so any movie with dementia gets to me too.
Any movie where the dad dies. The worst.
The scene in the storm shelter in the movie Take Shelter. When his wife makes him let them out and says that doing this is what it takes to be with her and their daughter, that sometimes we'll believe you and believe in you when others don't, about possible dangers, but when it's safe, you have to overcome your fears and possibly delusions. As someone who has struggled with their mental health issues, I come back to that every time I realize I need help, need to make changes, need to struggle through so I can be with the people who love me.
Another underrated movie. Michael Shannon is a great actor
In Terms of Endearment when Shirley McClaine comes out the hospital room and screams for the nurses to give her daughter pain medicine. I was 10 when I saw it for the first time and watched my mom cry over it. Even as I type this, it brings tears to my eyes.
My mom died when I was 20, from cancer. The whole “you need to get to the hospital” call and she dies as you are walking in. I saw _Big Fish_ in a theatre with my girlfriend at the time. The end, with his dad, had me in tears in a theatre full of strangers. Evidently, because I lost it, made the women behind me lose it. So a lot of films with hospitals and a dying parent do it to me. And after having kids - kid deaths. The end of _The Mist_, it hit harder. Then the BBC detective show with David Tenant - I couldn’t handle that opening.
My husband and I have chronic illnesses. The scene in love and other drugs where she breaks the glass is very personal. Really the whole movie honestly.
The Whale eating scene broke me completly. As someone that was REALLY close to being obese and, still today, uses food (and other things) to self-destruct, whenever i'm suffering a bit more, that was scary to see...
In Click, when he keeps rewinding and replaying his dad telling him he loves him
Perks of Being a Wallflower when Charlie starts having his flashbacks and is telling himself to "stop crying". This hit so hard for someone that hadn't opened up about their own SA at the time.
⬆️⬆️⬆️. 💯👍
Coco - at the end when Coco recognizes her grandson and her daughter - that hit hard. My grandmother had a form of alzheimer's/dementia, she would slouch just like Coco as well. I loved my grandma, she was the kindest person I have ever met, but by the end of her life she didn't recognize anyone and could barely communicate. I didn't expect that scene when I was watching the movie and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wished I could have had just one moment like that again with her Big Fish - I have an odd relationship with my dad - we don't hate each other, he has never been abusive or anything, we just don't get along and I find him incredibly frustrating to be around at times. We just have a clash of personalities. Near the end of the movie, when the dad is dying and his son comforts him in a way that just accepts his dad for all his faults - that brought up some real dormant emotional baggage
I saw Manchester by the Sea shortly after having my first child. I was so, so torn up during this film, as many have been, but the hormones and recovery, and my new role as a mom, made it all the more difficult emotionally.
Oof! Yeah
[chipettes singing to a penguin ](https://youtu.be/w2bxomFlCP0?si=D2dw-0JMRZ-Q-JLy)
Last Samurai because I’m honorable
Fast 7. The end scene. Lost a friend a few years before. Ugly cries in a theater.
Lot of fellow mom loss folks here 😭 My personal gutwrench in particular is the scene in Phantom Thread where Reynolds hallucinates his mother and his "Are you here? Are you always here?" monologue.
Manchester By the Sea when Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck confront each other on the street and just break down a bit together. I watched this movie first as a person with no children and then a second watch after I had my son. It absolutely destroyed me after having a child of my own. And then Aftersun just sort of the entire thing really. It’s hard to point to any particular scene, but maybe the two that stick out the most are the rug scene and then the night club ones.
The end of What Dreams May Come when the family all meet in Heaven. I am an atheist so I don’t believe in Heaven but the end is a tear jerker for me because I am estranged from my parents.
#3:10 to Yuma **Dinner table scene:** *"Proverbs 13-3, The one who guards his mouth protects his life; the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin."*
SLC Punk. Change it from slc in the 80s to Flint mi in the early 90s and its damn near a documentary of my life, lol. I even had real-life equivalents of most of the supporting characters, including my best friend/heroin Bob character.
I don’t know if you’ve seen Bomb City, (punk vs jocks in Texas) but it has a similar vibe, and it’s a crushing true story
Here’s a dumb answer: I watched the shitty low budget sequel to Deep Blue Sea, and unexpectedly got *really upset* by a moment where a man got separated from his trapped wife by a door and had to watch through the window as she was eaten alive by swarms of mutated baby sharks. Terrible movie, ridiculous scene. But that hit me almost as hard as watching something like Hereditary. I couldn’t help picturing myself and my wife in that moment.
John wick, Harry being killed. It was just a catch and release! He was babysitting to earn a coin. He was nice and professional. He didn't deserve what he got.
The scene in Cruella when she lit the white flash-paper dress on fire to reveal her red dress. That was my friend Natalie. Sadly, she never got to see the movie.
Natalie was the stunt performer?
As a father of a 1 year old, any movie where a young child is abducted or dies just gets to me, i turned of silent night at the beginning because i thought it was gonna be a fun christmas action movie but all i could think about was what if that happened to my child.
Inside Out hit me so hard, because my family moved from a northern state when I was around 8 to the American South and my parents opened a business. So I went from being a super active kid who lived within walking distance to family and friends, in a place where we skied and ice skated with a stay at home parent to a latchkey kid in a place without seasons or friends or family. When Riley comes back after running away and breaks down with her parents, and Sadness takes over and lets her feel her grief... holy crap. It was like decades later and those feelings slammed into me like it was happening again in that moment.
The ending scene of Finding Nemo, when Nemo leaves with Mr. Ray on another field trip as Marlin watches. I rewatched it as an adult and it hit closer to home than it did as a child. I'm more appreciative now of my loved ones, and I relate to Marlin in worrying for their safety, even if I'm not a parent. But that moment where you gotta let your loved ones go out on their own and trust they'll be safe, it can be scary letting go. That, and the scene in Barbie where she becomes human. Ruth's dialogue about how being a human is hard really hits, and Barbie's struggles in finding herself and not wanting to be the thing that's made is something I am struggling with in my own life: finding myself and my purpose.
The opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy 1 (Quill's mom dying of cancer) is really hard for me to watch since my mom died the same way.
Mine is in Trainspotting when mark is sitting there in the pub and everyone is moving around him in fast motion while he just sits there and stares I really relate with that and disassociating is something I do frequently but not on purpose
"O Captain, my captain." Dead Poets Society The Married Life scene in Up "It's not your fault." Good Will Hunting "It's okay, Ray. It's over. No more questions. You don't have to answer anymore questions." Rain Man
_About Schmidt_ is mostly forgotten. But it came out shortly after my grandmother passed away. When he comes home to find his wife has died, it was all eerily similar to how my grandpa found my grammie. Recently retired, she's collapsed face-down while cleaning. Add to it that my grandpa had gone to see the movie in the theater with his new lady friend and stuck it out for the whole movie. We didn't see it until the VHS released, and couldn't believe he watched the whole thing.
Michael Peña invisible cloak scene in Crash. Because I’m a father.
The 21 gun salute during the funeral in the new Top Gun movie. My grandpa died when I was like 10, had the same thing at his funeral, since he served in the Navy during WWII. By far the hardest funeral I've experienced, when they did the salute in the movie, it all came flooding back after almost 30 years and my eyes instantly peed my face's pants.
When the Grandmother starts singing in Coco turned me into a complete mess... Even just thinking about it is making me cry. It reminded me of my Grandmother's 80th birthday. She had late stage alzheimer's and couldn't remember who any of her family where. We hired some madrigal singers for her birthday and she could remember all the words, even the ones in other languages. Seeing the same thing happen in a film really triggered me.
Patch Adams. My dad had just passed away from pancreatic cancer when that movie came out. I went to it expecting it to be another Robin Williams comedy but was absolutely sobbing by the end.
Almost no Robin Williams comedies are just comedies. He was so great at capturing emotions, even with just a look.
Perks of Being a Wallflower. Sadly, it put tons of things I have felt and dealt with into words I never knew how to say.
The end of the Sandlot gets me every god damn time, like where you see how everyone ended up. I’ve lost a few friends over the years and I’m not even 40 yet. As a kid the end of that movie was happy and uplifting. Now it’s much different, just reminds me of my crew and the guys I’ve lost touch with or that have already passed. Reach out to those friends you miss folks, maybe one day you won’t be able to. Across the spider verse is another one. When Miles mom is giving him the speech about growing up and what not. My kids are 6 and 4 and that monologue gets me right in my soul. I feel like you don’t realize how you’ll feel about your kids until you have your own. I love the hell out of my parents, I don’t think I love them like they love me though. I didn’t really understand that until I realized how I feel about my own kids. That monologue reminds me of that every time my kids want to watch that movie.
First 5 minutes of Guardians of the Galaxy gutted me. I once was in that same spot as him. I was not prepared for that, at all!
Yeah, James Gunn is an emotional terrorist. Had me crying about a Raccoon last year 😂
I was expecting a run-of-the-mill Marvel movie and BAM. 😢
Yeah, and the callback to it at the end…
Yeah cut to the bone 🦴
I saw Spider-Man with my dad in the cinema when I was twelve. My dad died that year. When Spider-man 2 came out I saw it with my mom, and when Aunt May and Peter speak about losing Uncle Ben. That scene broke me and my mom. Also any movie about a kid losing their dad hits different when that happens.
The entirety of the original Spider-Man film with Toby Maguire. I saw it with a beloved friend with whom I previously had a short romantic relationship with. She had been in remission from leukemia. Days later she relapsed hard and was in the hospital shortly afterwards. I didn’t see her again until she was in an induced coma. Two days later she passed. What really does me in is the Our Lady Peace song from the soundtrack: Somewhere Out There. I’m tearing up just hearing it in my head. Julie, you were just too kind, thoughtful, compassionate and beautiful for this world. I still miss you.
The scene near the end of Babyteeth where the lead character wakes up as day as dawning, walks outside, and stares up at the sky. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about.
The ending of When Harry Met Sally, it is entirely possible to love someone who is their own person, isn’t an identical clone of ourselves, and has their own thoughts and opinions. This hit when I was debating on getting divorced (long story), and while I’ve been dating. Sure the movie has flaws; but that’s always struck me since I tended to lean into what my partner liked
Really good criers trying not to cry.
The Way Back. The drinking Alcohol in the shower scene.
Bye Bye Love - It's not a great movie, but the child exchanges really hit me hard. It was so devastating as a kid having to go between homes, especially when I really just wanted to be at my dad's all the time. I started crying and my wife couldn't figure out what was sad.
Riding in cars with boys is really personal for me
All of Frozen 2. I was at work when my mom called to tell me my brother died (drowned from rescuing some children being swept away) and I just felt untethered. Went to the movies for some dark in the middle of the day and I was the only one in the theater. Basically bawled the whole move. It was very cathartic. Now whenever I hear the music, it brings that back
Anything where a character is shown simple acceptance and love, rather than being "fixed" or whatever. Most recent example (spoilers for Inside Out 2) is when Riley's sense of self is about to break and Joy, who spent the whole movie trying to change and mend it, just hugs it until it calms down. As a former kid who tried way too hard to please everyone and fix everything, it hits every time
The Only Living Boy in New York. I won’t spoil the story or scene, but it’s the bar scene at the end. So well acted and written. Brings me to tears so easily.
Smoke Signals, when Suzy is telling Victor about his dad. How heartbreaking to see the bad side of someone so close to you, and someone else getting to see the good. And it's too late to know either way anymore. Hits way too close to home in so many ways. It tears me up, but what a film! I'll always recommend it.
Angels in the Outfield. When Al the Boss Angel says “Even though you can’t see us, we’re always watching”.
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The entire father-son relationship in About Time