There are joyful tears and tragic tears.
Magnificent Obession -- a little of both.
Well, all the Douglas Sirk.
Gautam, re Schindler's List: then there is Shoah. I didn't cry in Shoah, the whole thing being about nine hours. My eyes were open in grief and that sounds trite. (This is aside from the point of the thread, re tearinspiring regular films....)
Deep Impact gets me all the time...I bought it so I can let it all out if I need to.
I could probably still mist up at like the Yearling, Lion King, etc but, i just do my best not to watch those.
lilk...you misted up? Are sure sure is wasnt from laughing? I cant think of it but, let me know if you figure it out...I think I have the same recollection but, the movie escapes me.
Imitation of Life. It was on a few weeks ago and, it's just so cornball now. The relationship between Lana Turner and Sandra Dee as her daughter, is laughable almost, but the dynamics between Annie, Lana's maid, and her mulatto daughter are still extremely intense and heartwrenching and as hard as I tried not to let it get to me yet again, the ending, as always, had me in tears.
eoe..you know...that is a bit weepy...grand horses and all, plumes a flyin
The woman screaming for her mama, after denying her. That's what gets to you.
well okay....but, she was just evil..Id rather cry for her mamas broken heart
I just watched dragonfly...whats with that being weepy??? blah...and why didnt anyone warn me dangit.
I don't think she was evil, quinn. She just wanted so badly to be something other than what she was. To be so close, almost white, but still denied the priviledges of being a white woman in 1950, was too much for the young girl to bear. It was a pretty sad storyline when you think about it. No wonder it brings us to tears.
Her actions towards her mother were most certainly hateful and ignorant in her own view...to me..evil. Yes, poor sad soul however, don't make it right.
It is a sad story line, especially since she had been brought up in such circumstances as to see and live without such ignorances towards her in her own home, but to go against that home because she was no longer happy with its circumstances I think she missed the whole privileges she had been given...etc etc etc. Thank goodness things have changed a bit since then but, yes, it is a sad tale.
My mother fell apart every single time she watched Johnny Belinda. At her fathers' funeral, when Jayne Wyman, as the deaf mute, signed "The Lords' Prayer", my mother would just bawl. She loved it!
Tears of joy? What's the rather recent British movie of the young boy who wanted to dance? In the end, when he's a principal dancer for the ballet, and his father and brother attends his premier, the pride and the tears in his fathers' eyes...
Terms of Endearment,City of Angels,I am Sam,Old Yeller,and The Yearling
"Billy Elliot" - definitely tears of joy -- just for the message that bigotry can be overcome.
Both Mrs. cav and I loved Billy Elliot. It's coming around again this month on digital cable. I am certain we'll catch it once again.
Trainspotting--
The blond kid's death... His persecution and the unfair luck of the draw with AIDS.
The last scene in About Schmidt really had me going.
Trainspotting was a bit of a gut-churner, in it's way. We know someone who can recite the entire screenplay. It's a bit spooky...
Speaking of AIDS:
Philadelophia
On the Gloaming (directed by Christopher Reeve)
Longtime Companion
On the Gloaming broke my heart.
Very good sleeper.
Loved Trainspotting. The internal dialogue approached Clockwork Orange, but you know, in a different vein.
