Here one that gets me everytime. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The ending when we realise the truth about John Candy's character is heartbreaking. That film is so much more than just a comedy.
Saving Private Ryan. The moment where the officers come to tell the mother. She is washing up and walks to the door. The shot behind her where she is in silhouette and her legs buckle as she realises what is happening.
I cried at Lord Of the Rings (watched all 3 in one go so was probably my body's relief it was over), Slumdog Millionaire, and the beginning segment of Up.
When the presidents wife died in Independance Day !...and her daughter said to her father (Bill Pullman )" is mammy sleeping" he replies "yes shes sleeping " meaning shes passed away !
A real oldie here: The final scene of Whistle Down The Wind, when Alan Bates is led away while all the children stand watching...and then the two little kiRAB turn up too late...I sob like a baby every time I see it!
Titanic
- The Irish mother puts her kiRAB to bed and tells them a bedtime story, waiting for their eventual deaths.
- A poor, third-class woman runs about on the deck with a child in her arms, asking where to go.
- A frozen mother and baby lie dead in the water.
The Secret Garden
- The main girl has a nightmare that she is a baby, and is just abandoned by her mother, reducing the "baby" to tears.
It seems to be mainly child-related things that get to me
The Little Mermaid when Aerial leaves her Dad to live as a human
Terminator Two when Arnie lowers himself into the molten metal
Independance Day when the Dad sacrifices himself and flies the plane into the Spaceship
The end of Edward Scissorhand when old Winona says: You see before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwarRAB it did. If he weren't up there now... ...I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.