A good cry

[gilana]

What's your favorite tear-jerker book or movie?

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[mizarchivist]

The Color Purple, historically a favorite. Movie version, that is. In my no-tv-at-home years, I'd watch that every time when babysitting for a particular family.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that. Guaranteed weeper!

Also, Truly, Madly, Deeply.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Every time I see the ending it's total waterworks.

Book: Bridge to Terebithia

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bridge is a major one of mine. So much weeping.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The end of Brightness Falls from the Air always makes me cry. The Time Traveller's Wife is one I've read more recently.
The first ten minutes of Up.
Not quite what you meant, but a recent youtube movie: Kiwi!. And Overtime, a creepy and terribly sad tribute to Jim Henson.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of The Lions of Al-Rassan.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I could easily convene a panel of my friends to argue vociferously about the ending to Lions, with widely varying opinions. I can't figure out anything non-spoilery to say, though! :)

[minkrose]

Probably Love Actually. Someone was doing some ice skating routine to the theme and I had to turn it off; I couldn't watch it. But it's also probably my favorite movie. I know there are a lot of things that make me tear up but I can't think of any other good favorites right now...


I find that I will collect certain ideas of pain, or scenes from books that hurt and they will pile on top of each other. Once something sets me off, I remember all the Sad Things and it gets worse. Friends who committed suicide, or favorite artists who have passed away, for example. There's a scene at the end of one of David Eddings's books that I read at the right time/age and it stuck with me for years.

My most recent "oh, damn, this thing makes me cry" is this commercial. I really couldn't tell you why; I like the idea a lot, though.

[gilana]

That is touching... except for the bit about P&G being the ones to put me out of work :\ (I mean, I had been thinking about leaving Gillette anyway, really. But still.)

[minkrose]

Bleh, that sucks. That's one problem with internet privacy - I had no idea you'd worked with them!


I thought of another one - The West Wing. I mean, seriously, half the episodes in the first couple of seasons make me tear up. It's RIDICULOUS. I get it from my mom; she's the same way.

[joyeous.livejournal.com]

Book - Charlotte's Web or Jane Eyre
Movie - The Sound of Music

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

The end of The Lord of the Rings, especially Frodo's final speech to Sam, always makes me cry.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Seconded.
For TV, "Sleeping in Light"

[shayde.livejournal.com]

Ung, not trying to be negative, but I DETEST the end of Return of the King. It's almost 40 minutes of "we're all sad and standing around sniffling, and here's tons of goodbyes, and oh, Frodo's going away! More sobbing!"

Maybe it's just coming from the interminable climb up mount doom, and the "we're going to die, but that's okay" 20 minutes waiting to be picked up by the eagles.

Ung. :)

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for sharing. Obviously, mileages vary.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

The Iron Giant

and, more strangely perhaps, Rules of Engagement

Well, those are films. Book: Fields of Fire.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Truly, Madly, Deeply? Also the first bit in Up. And Life is Beautiful.

Books ... when I was a kid, Where the Red Fern Grows really got me. There are sections in Rise of Endymion that really get me these days. And having read all of Tales of the City, much of Sure of You (the 6th volume) and Maupin's sequel years later, Michael Tolliver Lives. And always, The Little Prince

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I cried madly when both reading and watching Gone with the Wind. That was in about 7th grade, though; no idea how it holds up. :-}

[snoopymel.livejournal.com]

Joy Luck Club. Every scene - one of my best friends and I have bonded over this to the point now that when one of us does something heartfelt, the other says "Now Way-va-lee, now you make me happ-eee"

Runners up: Grey's Anatomy. Seriously, the entire show is written to make grown women cry.

[goat.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched this in years, but I cry pretty much straight through Radio Flyer. Similarly, I haven't seen A River Runs Through It in a long time, but I recall it resulting in a pretty good cry.

As for books, Bridge to Terabithia (I refused to watch the movie because it would make me too sad) and Where The Red Fern Grows both still haunt me as beautifully heart-wrenching stories even though I read them around the age of 9.

[moria923.livejournal.com]

*The Curse of Chalion*. I cried when I read it the first time, in 2005. Recently I reread it without crying, but then thorbol read it, and when we talked about it and I mentioned the scenes that had moved me most, I lost it again.

[fenicedautun.livejournal.com]

My first thought was also Bujold, although I was thinking of Cordelia's Honor (the first 2 books in the Vorkosigan series) and possibly Paladin of Souls, although you're right that Curse of Chalion is totally one of those books.

[lordfeepness.livejournal.com]

Don't know if this counts, but I cried at the last episode of Six Feet Under--and I'm not much of a crier. It might require watching enough of the show to get emotionally invested in the characters, though.

[snoopymel.livejournal.com]

I cried so HARD after that final episode of Six Feet Under. That show was another one full of tear-worthy moments

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I'm not a weeper by nature, but Dead Poets Society and the end of Return Of The King (Frodo's departure) come closest. Oh, and the very last episode of Babylon 5.

[shayde.livejournal.com]

I don't have many tear-jerkers that get me, but I do dearly love "Shakespeare in Love".

Lord Wessex: How is this to end?
Queen Elizabeth: As stories must when love's denied: with tears and a journey

[kvarko.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever cried from a book. And I'm having a hard time recalling movies -- the only two recent ones that come to mind are unlikely to be tear-jerkers for others: Adam and Lars and the real girl (though it wasn't a tear jerker the second time around). Movies about people with social-interaction problems, specifically Asperger's (like Adam), make me cry because I associate too much with them -- so it's more like crying about my life, than about the movie. ... I suspect that I've cried about a movie before, but can't honestly remember one.