Nicole Kidman Recalls Movie That Brought Her To Tears
We all have our favorites - that movie that makes your eyes puff up and your tissue box run empy. For Nicole Kidman it was Breaking The Waves, a movie starring Emily Watson. Nicole was SO MOVED by the performance that she canceled her plans for the rest of the day and just cried and cried.
"I saw that film and I was supposed to go out to dinner afterward. I had to cancel dinner. I went home, got into bed, curled up in a ball, and cried. I don’t
know why I had such a profound, deep reaction to that film, but I did. It disturbed my spirit."
I have so many of those - The Joy Luck Club, Beaches, Click and Titanic to name a few. I have one more that I saw recently that I was HYSTERICAL OVER. I can't remember it!! I emailed my husband to see if he can think of the name. I could barely speak after watching it and the name has completely escaped me. UGH.
Let's share - what are your tear jerkers?
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Braveheart. Always Braveheart. It's the only movie that's ever made me cry....and I sob like a baby everytime I see it.
Terms of endearment
The way we were
Dead man walking was utterly depressing and made me cry. And Hilary and Jacky, also with Emily Watson.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting
The English Patient. I felt like I needed therapy after watching that movie.
Steel Magnolias. Titanic. The Color Purple. Terms of Endearment. Bambi.
Definately Steel Magnolias, also Fried green tomatoes with Kathy Bates
A River Runs Through It and Rent.
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. We had to stay in the theater 30 extra minutes after it was over because I couldn't compose myself!
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StepMom, just saw it this weekend so it's the 1st one that comes to mind, but I'm a cry-baby so I cry over a lot of movies.
Any movie where a good character dies or someone finds true love after a lot of heartache.
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Bridges of Madison County, I've got a lump in my throat just thinking about it
Also, the Piano for different reasons
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I agree, seeing Harvey Keitel naked has that effect on me as well.
Steel Magnolias and Legends of the Fall come to mind right away.... Oh, and My Girl!
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Yup!
Both of those for me too, add Fried Green Tomatoes, Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Terms of Endearment, and I've got myself a little cryathon right there.
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These movies have made me weep copiously: Babe (a general personal rule: if a movie has a talking animal in it, I'm bound to at LEAST choke up a few times during the film), Steel Magnolias, Forrest Gump, ET, The English Patient, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, etc. And the last movie that made me nearly have a breakdown was Away from Her -- the movie where Julie Christie plays an Alzheimer's victim and Hal Holbrook watches her get worse and worse. Okay. I'm gonna watch Borat and Austin Powers now, thanks!
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Click?! With Adam Sandler??? Are you serious? Maybe you cried because it was an incredibly dumb movie? I'm baffled.
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I'm with Vera on this - I cried watching "Click" too!
The Notebook, Braveheart, Beaches and Fried Green Tomatoes -- they all had my crying like a baby!!
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - I cried pretty much non-stop throughout the entire movie.
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Ernestine, you are so funny!
I agree with a lot of the above movies - I'm such a baby!
I'm going to also say that I balled like a baby while reading 'Smoke Jumper' by Nicholas Evans. Recommend it.
Somewhere in Time. I cry uncontrollably.
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that one makes me sob and sob. it ranks right up there with Terms of Endearment
I forgot: Boy's don't cry! Man, I was supposed to go out for dinks after that but I went home crying instead.
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First one that comes to mind - Brides of Madison County - that scene where Meryl is sitting in the pickup in the rain gets me every time!
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The NOTEBOOK!
The movie "Dad" with Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey & Ethan Hawke. OMG that was a tearjerker!
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My all time favorite tear-jerker movie is The Color Purple - I don't just cry when I see that movie I am absolutely hysterical!!
Braveheart, Beaches, Into the Wild..........
Man on Fire...no matter how many times I see it, I cry and cry and cry. Ugh, just thinking about it makes my eyes tear up! Beaches is another one and Steel Magnolias are good ones too. Green Mile too, I think other than Man on Fire, that's the movie I've cried over the most! I'm sure there are more, I've turned into such an emotional person lately!
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Riviera- I cried at "Click" too. For his character to realize that his life and family were passing him by because he didn't want to deal with everyday life. Sad. Another Adam Sandler movie made me cry recently, Reign Over Me. Adam Sandler plays a character who's wife and children are killed in the 9/11 plane crash. Do see how he deals with the grief is upsetting, raw and real.
braveheart & powder - turn me into a blithering idiot
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a walk to remember...steel magnolias...beaches...i agree with alot of these and i got some ideas for my netflix que!
click was a movie that makes you think about how precious life really is...when he is laying in the rain with his family all around him..yeah it choked me up too!
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Click
that's a pretty sad statement for someone who runs a *gossip* blog, to not be able to come up with a movie name. just remember at least one of the actors in it, then google them to see what movies they have made. it's about 3 clicks of research, at most.
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eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the notebook, once, big fish, any movies where parents die, people fall in love but can't be together etc I cry pretty easily at movies. Philadelphia, cried hard at that in the theater. away from her was heartbreaking.
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im surprised about this click movie, i never thought it would be worth watching but it appears quite a few people were moved by it!
A Walk in the Clouds and While You Were Sleeping are two awesome movies that make me cry everytime and I am not a "cry baby". Can't believe no one has mentioned those yet although I agree with Beaches and Steel Magnolias- heck named my son Jackson
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Braveheart, Dear Frankie, P.S. I Love You . . . admittedly, there are a lot of movies I cry over, both happy and sad, but these three hit me on a level like few others.
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I cried at "Whale Ryder",i cried like a baby trough the whole movie:(( And usually i don´t even cry when i watch movies.
I just watched the Bucket List and got all choked up. Mask with Cher makes me weep...
The Shawshank Redemption
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The Notebook, Amadeus, I am Sam, The Cure (with Brad Renfro) is one of my all time bawlers,
I cried in click too, pretty much anything can make me cry, except for the end of lord of the rings - you're trying too hard with all your slo-mo and big hobbit eyes!
there are weird moments in things that make me cry, there's a scene in one of the LOTR movies where a little girl (played by peter jackson's daugher) is scared and she looks just like my little sister when she was a toddler and it breaks my heart, the same thing with a little girl being scared in a strokes film clip "my door bell"
The last scene in "The Color Purple." I have to be alone to watch it so I don't blubber like a baby in front of people I heart.
Atonement.............just killed me
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The Family Stone. The family treats SJP's character just awfully. I always feel so sorry for her.
Armeggedan - Gets me everytime...When she leaves her Dad a note to meet her under that tribute...I start then and don't stop til it is over...Have seen it probably 50 times and I still cry...Recently saw P.S. I Love You and that was just as bad...For anyone to experience a love like that is very very lucky.
Can't believe no one mentioned MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. Also, The Green Mile and Fried Green Tomatoes are on my top list.
The graveside scene where Sally Field loses it in Steel Magnolias gets me every time. And I was BAWLING not 10 minutes into Mystic River. Must be something about watching a person who's lost a child?
Becoming Jane - with Anne Hathaway. I sat in the theatre, it was supposed to be a dinner date (with my husband) and we had to go home instead.
Life is Beautiful. That was so unbelievably sad. What a deceptive title!
Message in a Bottle, that made me cry.
Actually, a wierd movie-crying experience for me was when I went to see that modern remake of "Godzilla" (with Matthew Broderick)--I was about 5 months pregnant (SERIOUSLY hormonal) and cried through the end of the movie--in sympathy with the monster!! Because (I was thinking as I wept) she just wanted to protect her babies, darn it!
Yeah, I know. It was the hormones, I swear!
There is a little known movie called Griffin and Phoenix, I don't even think it made it to theaters, maybe b/c it is a little TOO sad and depressing... Amanda Peat and Dermot Mulroney are literally the only 2 actors in the movie.... the first time I saw it, I cried so hard I hyperventilated. If you are in the need for a good cry, this movie is a sure thing!
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oh and i cry from beginning to end in Once Were Warriors, very draining experience as its close to home, well... around the block anyway
The notebook, Jack, P.S i love you, Sam I Am
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Was it P.S. I love you? That one still gets me! Also The Notebook.
"Dances with Wolves", "Thelma and Louise", and, more recently, "Juno"
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The Green Mile, Big Fish, AI: Artificial Intelligence
I am so shocked that you mentioned The Joy Luck Club!! That is one of my all time favorites, but no one really knows about it! I cry everytime!
"Life as a House" with Kevin Kline and Hayden Christensen. Kevin's character is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife discovers he's sick and begins to help him through everything and then realizes she's still in love with him. Also shows his struggles of getting through to his rebellious son (Hayden). Even though you know what's coming in the end, it's still heartbreaking especially because he's finally getting what he's wanted and then....well, I guess you can figure out what happens. Definitely need a box of kleenex in the end. But they do manage to put an uplifting part on the end too.
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oh! and my BROTHER was absolutely a mess after PS i love you. if something can make him cry, it is probably pretty good.
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"An affair to Remember" here are some quotes....... Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... we've already missed the spring! and If you can paint I can walk- anything can happen, right? and who could forget Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there... I am just crying as I am typing this...........
The Seventh Sign with Demi Moore...Steel Magnolia's...Air Force One...Braveheart
Lorenzo's Oil with Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. Even sadder because the person who the film was about just passed away due to his illness earlier this month. He fought a long time. :(
The click, LOTR;return of the king, The Notebook, Armageddon, P.S I love you, and almost any movie where animals get hurt.
The Green Mile
Beaches
My Girl when MC dies
How Stella Got her Groove Back- when her best friend dies
Stepmom
Army Wives on a weekly basis
Charlotte's Web
Babe
Bambi
Dumbo
many many more!
Legends Of The Fall, The Notebook, Titanic, Beaches, Pay It Forward, Steel Magnolias, Terms Of Endearment........I could go on forever.
For the person who was quite rude with their Click comment, I cried at the end of that movie because my dad died in 2006 at the age of 57. The Henry Winkler part got me. It was a personal thing.
WHITE OLEANDER MAKES ME CRY. LEGENDS OF THE FALL ALSO.;
Legends of the Fall. O-M-G. Depressing all the way through
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stand by me! wow the ending gets me everytime.
Cocoon. The Elephant Man. Of Mice and Men. Old Yeller. Finding Neverland. Million Dollar Baby. ET. Dumbo.
A lot of movies make me tear up, but the one that made me howl and unable to leave the theater was THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG. Everyone lives unhappy, unfulfilled, tragic lives and then they die. OMG I almost needed medical assistance to get up out of my seat. I know it was cratically acclaimed, but what a horrible little movie.
I had a cry hang over from the one with Hilary Swank in it...Million Dollar Baby. I do not like her @ all, but yikes, she was good in that movie. It caught me off guard and I cried and cried and cried and cried. I was truly hungover from crying in that one. OH!!! and also the one with Bjork in it....Dancer in the Dark. THE SADDEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!
also, when I was in the 5th grade I saw Mask (with Eric Stoltz) and cried ALL the way home from the theatre. This is when my mom knew she had a sensitive little girl.
Bridges of Madison County most definitely and Gone With the Wind and Love With the Proper Stranger- Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen.
I forgot to add this movie to my list: Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. I cried for hours and hours. Beautiful movie that not too many have seen.
i agree with the bridges of madison county one where meryl is in the car.........let me see stepmom gets me every time, i am sam (the first time i saw it i couldnt stop crying).... i am a crybaby i cant remember other names right now but the simplest thing might get me really emotional
(lol @ the bambi comment above)
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So many!
I think sometimes the movie itself would not be a tearjerker, per se, but it could connect with someone and make them cry which is what happened to me when I watched LEGENDS OF THE FALL. I doubt that any movie since then tore my soul apart the way that movie did. I was a teenager then and it spoke to me.
Later on, as a young twenty something, the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY broke me for a week and so did PROOF OF LIFE. The fact that both movies spoke of love that cannot be fulfilled says much about my situation at the time.
I watched Pollyanna over the weekend and cried. The Notebook. Somewhere In Time, is definately one of my favorites.
you all gotta watch REQUIEM FOR A DREAM i felt fucked up a week after seeing it. and I almost cry thinking of the movie
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I watched the Joy Luck Club about five years ago. I didn't cry but I am way more sensitive now so I think I would just cry and cry. I think they should make The Kitchen God's Wife into a movie. That would make me cry. Oh, I watched this Lifetime movie this weekend. Haha. It was the story of Gwen...I can't remember the last name. She was transgender, well he was but he lived as a girl. Some guys ended up killing her because they find out that she had a penis. It was terrible. I think I cried so much because it was based on a true story and I don't understand how people can hate others so much for something that doesn't even concern them.
The Seventh Sign always works for me, and one film I have missed so far is Meet Joe Black. When we need a good cry, my daughter and I get the DVD out, add a big pack of tissues and some chocolates - a perfect evening with Brad Pitt ;-)))
Just noticed, one film about the apocalypse, the other one has Brad Pitt playing Death. Should that make me think??? Nah, not really :-))))))))
Man on Fire, The Green Mile, Million Dollar Baby
will smith movie- the pusuit of happyness
i watched it a few weeks ago and my heart almost broke it was so sad
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I forgot The Notebook! Oh my gosh. That has to be the ultimate tear jerker!
my weepy films definatly include Ghost, The Notebook, Beaches
August Rush........try not to be moved when you watch it
Pursuit of Happines. I don't think there was a dry eye in the theater.
Code 46, Breaking The Waves, Agnes of God, Sophie's Choice. All to be watched alone in the dark at 3:00am with LOTS of tissues.
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