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Subject: films to have a good blub to
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:09 PM

A mention on another thread regarding "It's a Wonderful Life" got me thinking about all the other films I like to have a seriously good chocolate, wrappy rug and blub to. It's a Wonderful Life is one of my all time favourites, as is Little Women and Dark Victory ( Heavens, how that ages me!).My daughter and I award them tissue ( Kleenex?) ratings from none to a box and half.Some are so over the top they get giggle ratings instead.So do you have any candidates ans what would you rate them on the above scale so I know what to get out of the video store next?

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From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:23 PM

The Color Purple

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From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:30 PM

Carla's Song

Cyrano de Bergerac

Both real tear jerkers.

Bagpuss

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From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:32 PM

An ex-girlfriend of mine had the same idea, though she awarded them wads (how many wads of Kleenex would be on the floor afterwards). This got us into a discussion of pornography, but the idea was the same....

As I recall, her top 5 were:

The English Patient

Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyck on the street outside her daughter's wedding was a favourite)

Camille (the last 5 minutes)

Brief Encounter (surprise)

and Roman Holiday (the last 10 minutes were her all time peak). She used to put in on just to have a good cry.

yours, Peter T.

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From: Kim C
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:32 PM

Bridges of Madison County. I resisted seeing it for the longest time but it was on TV one night when I couldn't get the VCR to work, so I said, what the hell. I absolutely bawled like a sick calf.

I cried all the way through The Patriot. And I don't mean whimpering, sniffling crying - I mean sobbing. It just made me think about too many people and too many things. Didn't stop crying till I got home.

don't laugh, but I also cried at Dumbo. And Pinnochio.

But my fave line from It's a Wonderful Life, that gets me EVERY TIME, and will have me reach for a Kleenex even as I type this - "To my brother George Bailey - the richest man in town."

(scuse me)

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From: Micca
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:40 PM

One of the tops of the last 20 years has got to be, Cinema Paradiso( the long version , if you can get it) I defy anyone with a feeling in them to sit throught the end.. without weeping..

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From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:45 PM

"The Biscuit Eater" -- a boy-and-his-dog movie from, I think, the '30s. Hard to find, but a really high hankie rating.

"Gone With the Wind" (the book was better, though) "To Kill A Mockingbird" (ditto)

Sarah

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From: Greyeyes
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:01 PM

Brief Encounter (and I'm a bloke)

Sink The Bismark (when Kenneth Moore hears his son is alive and gives the definitive display of a stiff upper lip)

Reach for the Sky (When Kenneth Moore is told he has had both legs amputated, for an even stiffer lip, which quivers ifinitesimally).

Empire of the Sun (When Jim says "I can't remember what my parents look like.")

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From: Amergin
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:10 PM

Strange Brew....when they find out all that beer is contaminated....(at least I remember it that way)

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From: kendall
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:32 PM

Robin & Marian..when she poisons him, and he realizes that he would never have another day like this one. Then, he takes his bow and shoots an arrow, asking John to bury them where it lands. I always think of the line from the song,Lonesome Robin.. "and you're wondering what Marian found to do..thats better than coming to see you one last time"..and then,..."and where ever your arrow falls to the ground, we'll lay Lonesome Robin down one last time..no more Robin no more..your outlaw days are over" ..it's a deadly combination. When I was 9 I saw Lassie Come Home..having just lost my dog it tore me up. Then, when I was over 50, I saw it again, some things never change.

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From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:57 PM

A few of my favourite weepies (moments):

The return of Natasha to Andrei in the BBC War and Peace.

"Les Enfants du Paradis" is terribly sad all the way through -- botched loves and lives.

"Titanic" was a film that I was impervious to, surely one of the worst scripts ever, but the icy scene in the boats when DiCaprio drifts down out of sight is quite stunning. Nothing to cry about, but an incredible piece of cinema. I would love to have a copy just of those two minutes.

The last 10 minutes of "Roman Holiday"! yours, Peter T.

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From: annamill
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:02 PM

Steel Magnolias makes me cry every time.

Love, annamill

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From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:16 PM

BAMBI

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From: Greyeyes
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:19 PM

Oh yes, how could I forget Bambi, and what about The Incredible Journey (original version).

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From: Amergin
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:30 PM

SpaceBalls.....especially where Pullman found out he was a prince afterall....

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From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:38 PM

The Apostle - the conversion just before his arrest. Strange - I'm an atheist.

Empire of the Sun. I started weeping when the boy was separated from his mother and sobbed loudly during the kamakazi pilots' tea ceremony. My son changed seats.

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From: Llanfair
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:50 PM

"Intermezzo" remember it? I only have to hear the tune!!!
Bron.

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From: Mickey191
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 07:01 PM

How Green Was My Valley Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Farewell To Arms All the Lassie Movies Jezebel To Each His Own.

This was my all time record-10 tissues-who knows the name. Lana Turner befriends a black woman & her daughter,they struggle together thru poverty. Lana becomes big movie star, while her friends daughter is passing for white. When her Momma dies she follows the funeral procession calling Momma,Momma. Racked with guilt for her treatment of Momma. I think Edna Ferber wrote it.

Makes me want to go out and rent them all,if they had 'em. Mickey,N.Y.

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From: Morticia
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 07:07 PM

Mickey, I think it's Stella Dallas, mentioned earlier.

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From: alison
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:05 PM

Bridges of Madison County
Tess
Showboat

slainte

alison

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From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:17 PM

Bambi VS Godzilla...

I laughed so hard I wept...

;-)

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From: Helen
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:45 PM

Clinton, and all within less than 5 minutes! LOL

Drop Dead Fred

The Joy Luck Club

Raise the Red Lantern

Helen

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From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:13 PM

There was one called "Pinkie" and "Imitation of Life" (Fannie Hurst epic) with Lana Turner.

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From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:22 PM

Karen and I have quite a few and every now and again another pops up. Many have been mentioned here, but, uh..................

We have gotten out of the New Year's Eve habit and now we go somewhere nice for an early dinner then sit around all night watching movies we've rented. A few years back we came home, loaded up the snacks and camped on the couch prepared to watch two blockbusters that had just been released to videotape and we had not yet seen. A nice fire in the fireplace, two people in love, a new year approaching...........what a happy scene.

Now I dunno' what the hell we were thinking about when we rented these two, I mean we knew the plot lines........I guess it was just the chance to see two major hits while cuddled up on a cold New Year's Eve........whatever.......But let me give you all a piece of advice----Do NOT watch Philadelphia followed by Schindler's List in the same night. Bummer......

Spaw

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From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 10:57 PM

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue. I introduced a girlfriend to it one night several years ago. The phone rang just before the end. I went into the other room to get it. As I talked I looked back into the living room to see her sitting on the couch sobbing great gouts of tears as she watched the end of the movie. It always gets me the same way.

Horse Whisperer - When the parents face the amputation of their daughter's leg and whenever that little girl has to confront her fears. ANY time a child faces some great fear or danger.

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From: rabbitrunning
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:15 PM

"The Color of Paradise" -- it's subtitled, from Iran, and the end had me weeping silently. I liked the directors' earlier film, "Children of Heaven" too, but it's not a tearjerker (just thought provoking!)

I cry whenever I watch "1776" but only during one song.

"Old Yeller"
"The Earthling"
"Greyfriars' Bobby"

I cried watching "Beaches" and "The Shootist" in the theater, but I've not seen either movie since, so I don't know if it was just that I was young and gullible.

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From: alison
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:28 PM

oh yes... Greyfriars Bobby... and the Lsasie one that is the same story.......

slainte

alison

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From: BigDaddy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:48 PM

"How Green Was My Valley." For a number of reasons. My grandfather and his brothers who were coal miners. The Welsh choral singing. Just watched it today with my six year old son. Which reminds me of another..."Into The West." And "The Secret Of Roan Inish." And "The Education Of Little Tree." Actually doesn't take much right now. My cat (a friend of thirteen years) died two weeks ago today and my wife told me today she wishes I'd die too. Happy Holidays.

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From: Mickey191
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:55 PM

Sinsull, Thanks for reminding me - "Imitation of Life" by Fanny Hurst.Right on. Anyone remember "Penny Serenade" with Irene Dunne & Cary Grant. "The Search"- Mother & Son reunited after WWII by an American GI. (Monty Clift) "I Want To Live."Susan Hayward

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From: Gervase
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:17 AM

Wot, no Casablanca? Has to be there in the weepies list.
The Dead, Babette's Feast and Land and Freedom are all good for a damp eye, too.

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 08:48 AM

"The English Patient" - the bit where he's carrying her from the plane crash to the Cave of Swimmers, and comments that she's wearing the thimble he gave her, and she says she always wears it because she's always loved him, and then his face crumples and he starts crying and then I start crying and then my Other Half snorts derisively and mutters something about there not being enough dinosaurs in the film (his mark of a good movie).
Mind you, I cried at an episode of SeaQuest DSV once. PMT a-go-go.

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From: alison
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 09:40 AM

sorry to hear about your cat BigDaddy.... have a big hug from Oz.. from me.....

slainte

alison

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From: Kim C
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:03 PM

Oh yes, the first Incredible Journey. That's another bawl-like-a-sick-calf movie.

Iron Will is another one that gets me, but not because it's sad.

Of course, Old Yeller. How the hell could I forget that?! I have my own copy.

I cried at Terms of Endearment, too, although I didn't care for the movie all that much.

Lonesome Dove, if you can sit through the whole six hours.

Casablanca never made me cry that I remember.

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From: Whistle Stop
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:54 PM

I just re-saw "Sophie's Choice" for the first time since its original release. Choked me up -- my wife, too (but she cries at commercials). It's hard to think of a more devastating moment in cinema than the one when Sophie has to choose which of her children will live.

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From: kendall
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:09 PM

Oh yes, Lonesome Dove. When Call goes through hell for his pal, and finally gets him buried, he says "Next time, I'll be more careful what I promise." I have great admiration for a man of his word. It is so rare in this selfish world. My wife (at the time) thought he was stupid to go through all that. Her word wasn't all that great either...

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:09 PM

The Joy Luck Club and The Color Purple - both I saw when I probably oughtn't to have given what was going on in my life at the time. In both, I teared up early, started weeping quietly about a third of the way through, crying hard about half-way through, sobbing uncontrollably before the end, so that by the time the movie ended I had practically wilted into an ocean of tears. In both cases, I didn't stop crying for close to an hour after the movie. Whew. Nowadays, I do still cry at happy endings, especially when the movie seems likely to be tragic. But take a movie like Niagara Niagara - great film, riveting, sad - and I didn't cry. Another saving grace is killing off a major character, like in Copycat. Do that and I can get through even a theoretical tear-jerker undampened.

And before you ask, YES I am in therapy (*BG*)!

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From: Diva
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:37 PM

Brief Encounter Its a wonderful life Gone with the wind....the film I swore I'd never cry at,howled I did Schindlers List....I started as they were lighting the candles at the begining,I had just read the book. The King and I And loads more I cannot remember

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From: Branwen23
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:43 PM

Philadelphia

With Honors

Steel Magnolias

And more recently, Pay it Forward... Did they really have to end it that way?

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From: Kim C
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:47 PM

It was years after Lonesome Dove came out that I read about Charlie Goodnight taking Oliver Loving's body back to TX after Loving had been ambushed by Indians. Art imitates life...

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From: Bagpuss
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:13 AM

I wonder what it is about The English Patient? You either love it and think it was extremely moving, or you think it was the biggest piece of toss ever made.

I hated it. None of the characters interested me in the slightest and it bored me to a slow painful death. I was watching it with my brother and his wife, on video. After about 1 hour into the film, my sister in law looked around the room and asked "Is ANYBODY enjoying this???". We all shook our heads slowly with pained expressions on our faces.

Bagpuss

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From: Gervase
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:24 AM

Ah, but for blokes, the combination of Juliette Binoche AND Kristen Scott-Thomas is enough. Their presence would make even Crossroads umissable!
Dunno about the Fiennes fella though - I imagine he spent too much of the film doing a passable impression of a pork scratching to set pulses racing.

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From: JulieF
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:40 AM

I can get right to the end of Schindler's List - involved but not over emotional, and then all the actors and the real people line up to place stones on his grave - and I've lost it.

Julie

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:41 AM

Ralph Fiennes...mmmm. Something mysterious, intense and aloof about him which makes him rather attractive, but possibly just boring in reality....
Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode about The English Patient where everyone except Elaine loved it and she just couldn't comprehend why? The book was wonderful and I thought it translated quite well to film. The cinematography was fantastic. (I feel the need to point out that I generally scorn mushy films, but The English Patient is an exception.)

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From: Peter T.
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 09:02 AM

I couldn't cope with the ridiculous parts of The English Patient -- the most hilarious being the fact that the chick would be dead in a cave in the desert and she would be there intact and untouched when he got back three months latere. As if there were no bugs or scavenging animals anywhere in North Africa. I mean really. Now if he had found her a disgusting mess, and still have carried her off to his plane, then I could have gotten serious about it -- but they were too cowardly.

yours, Peter T.

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From: Jimmy C
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 09:16 AM

1 - Madame X - Gotta be one of the biggest tear jerkers I ever watched, especially near the end.
2 - Going My Way, when Barry Fitzgerald's mother walks into the church and the choir start to sing Toora-Loora-=Loora.
3 - A made for TV movie,based on a true story (I forget the title, something to do with memories) about an american lady who has dreams and flashbacks about a previus life in Ireland. Jane Seymour starred in it, boy the tears really flowed with that one.

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From: alison
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 09:38 AM

Oh yes "Toora loora".... another musical one is the end scene from "Hair"...... when they are singing "let the sun shine" as Treat Willliams is marched off onto the airplane (by mistake)to die in the ??Vietnam war............

also "ring of bright water" when the cute little otter gets up close and personal with a shovel......

slainte

alison

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From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:01 AM

City of Angels
Starman
Highlander
The day they gave babies away
Patrish

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From: Noreen
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:42 AM

"The return of Natasha to Andrei in the BBC War and Peace" Peter T, I'd forgotten about that- WONDERFUL! The BBC never repeated it- I wonder if it would still seem so impressive now? I thought Natasha was so beautiful.

The Railway Children, where the steam from the train clears to reveal her father standing there: "My Daddy!" Gets me every time... and now, too, just thinking about it...

Noreen

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From: kendall
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:43 PM

The English Patient put me to sleep