What's the most *sentimental* movie you've seen?

[karriemouse]

Marley and Me - and I'm not even a doggy person!

Not sure if this classes as 'sentimental' but Apollo 13 - as soon as we get to the re-entry scene I am in floods, while DH is sitting there laughing at me and the girls are saying 'Mum, you know they get back!!!

 

[NotUrsula]

I cannot believe that no one has mentioned An Affair to Remember.

And I agree with How Green Was My Valley.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close the other day.

I expected it to be a bit emotional, but OMG I cried through most of the movie

 

[bedogged]

Most recent for me is War Horse. Everybody in the theater was crying!

 

[Ginny Favers]

October Sky is such a great story, the closest I came to crying in a movie before the kids.

My husband and I watched October Sky in the theater, back when we saw EVERY movie in the theater and really had no idea what it was about.

At the end of the movie, I was sobbing mess, with tears and snot all over my face because I had no clue it was going to be so sad and inspiring at the same time. I thought my husband would make fun of me, so I just kind of sat there in the dark and tried to compose myself, knowing he'd probably try to get me to get up and leave soon. Instead, he just sat there, too. Next thing I knew, I looked over, and my husband, this big federal agent, was sitting there with tears streaming down his face, too! We had to stay there for at least 10 minutes after the final credits, trying to compose ourselves.

 

[POOHsie]

Saving Private Ryan
Waterloo Bridge
The Fighting Sullivans
Sophie's Choice

and my all-time favorite...
Random Harvest

Funny, my choices all involve stories from either WWI or WWII.

 

[Flight]

October Sky
Apollo13
Contact
Magnificent Desolation
From the Earth to the Moon ( HBO and Tom Hanks series)

They all remind me of our past greatness, what we have given away, and what we are capable of in the future.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Legends of the Fall. I left a blubbering mess

 

[donac]

My list includes
Toy Story 3 since my ds's grew up during that era.

Apollo 13 I watch that movie at least 3 times during the month of May. I show it to my AP Calc kids. Some of them know nothing about the space program.

I haven't read the entire thread but Mr Holland's Opus does it for dh and I. We don't even have to see the entire movie all we have to do is see the last 25 minutes. We are both school teachers getting retire and we have seen what music teachers go through. About a month ago it was on very early in the morning and I caught the end of it as dh was getting ready to go in the shower. I turned it off so that I could see the news. He said to me "You got me crying. YOu can't turn it off now."

 

[disykat]

There are two movies I've cried so hard at that it took me a while to recover.

For sentimental reasons - Snoopy Come Home. I was a hormonal teen at the time and it did me in!

For being overwhelmed with reality - The Killing Fields. I have close family friends that went through those times and the story mirrored everything they've told me. I also identified with the main character trying to get them out since I spent a year watching that process as well.

 

[Planogirl]

I just thought of another one. Both versions of The Incredible Journey leave me a blubbering mess at the end.

 

[krcit]

Like others have mentioned Life is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, The Champ, Brians Song and one I haven't seen mentioned is One True Thing with Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger..ridiculously sobbing in the theater, cried for an hour after.

 

[The Orchid]

Boys on the Side
Fried Green Tomatoes
A Walk to Remember
The Notebook
The Stand (in the end when they do a flashback to the faces of the dead)
Ghost
Dawn Anna (cuz I just didn't see it coming)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Bridge to Terrabithia
My Girl
City of Angels
Hunger Games (when Katniss volunteered and Prim lost it and had to be dragged away)
Creator
Where the Heart is
Red Dawn

 

[KateKat23]

There are two movies that made me ball my eyes out. The first one was Water for Elephants. When he started beating the elephant oh mylanta I absolutely lost it!! I went by myself to the movie and was sitting at the end of the row by the wall and the row was full or I would have left the theater. Still have not been able to watch that movie again.
The second that made me sob was Reign on Me with Adam Sandler. I had no clue at all what it was about when I rented it. I thought is was a comedy because of Adam Sandler. Was I surprised. Good movie though.

 

[MouseJunkie]

Ladder 49
Marley & Me
Dreamer
Horse Whisperer...the beginning tears me up.
and many others already mentioned.

 

[phamton]

Marley and Me, Imitation of Life, and Madame X

 

[PigletsPal2]

I cry at the drop of a hat, so probably very movie I've ever seen has made me cry at one point (even if I was just crying over the price of snacks!).

I cried at all the Jane Austen movies - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma - both because of the beautiful scenery and because the characters were so clueless! I wanted to lock them in a room until they talked out their differences!

I cried at the treatment the Church of England minister and the Jewish student received at the hands of the British government as well as their teammates in Chariots of Fire.

I cried when Princess Victoria learned she was to be queen. More than 150 years later, we knew what she was in for!

Are you sensing a pattern in my movie-going?

Queen Colleen

 

[pampam]

Shanendoah, with Jimmy Stewart