Sob Stories..... Mar 27 '02    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Movies Love and Basketball From $6 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy From $8 The Bottom Line Mine aren't traditional "tear-jerkers." Usually "tear-jerkers" are "feel-good movies" on some level. Mine aren't always. I am not a "weeper" by any means. In fact only three of these movies actually drew tears from my eyes. BUT! The other 7 threatened to. 10) Titanic: When this movie first came out people kept telling me, "It's SO sad!" I'd beam wildly at them and ask them how it ends. I would nudge them with my elbow and ask them if the ship REALLY sinks. Of course we know it does. Toward the end there are three resonant scenes that threatened to make me weep. I won't go into it, but there is one scene that obviously threatens to make my eyes water. Then there is one poignant scene when she arrives in America that pulls on my heart strings--when she gives her name. THEN there is the grand finale, the ending, which pulls on my heart strings. 9) Ghost: This is a sheer and utter chick flick that my mother forced me to watch. There are many heart-string-tugging incidents in this movie. Demi Moore must have had to have a lot of tear-inducing eye drops for this flick. She even won me an argument with my fiction professor about the use of "the single tear" (I NEVER used "single tear" in any thing I wrote! I was merely sticking up for someone). This movie, in short, is about a woman who loses her husband. He comes back as a "ghost" and keeps in contact with her via Whoopi Goldberg (a "medium" or a psychic). It's an interesting, fluffy flick with a cool ending. 8) We Were Soldiers: This is an authentic Vietnam war flick. There are casualties, so obviously I am going to be tear-jerked. Starring Mel Gibson, and out in theaters now, this is a must see weeper. This is THEE authentic war flick. I promise. And it's out in theaters now. I've never been in a war, but my butt cheeks were sore after from clenching them. The tension is SO real and the losses were close to my heart. Especially when the wives back home got their "telegrams." 7) E.T.: This is a feel-good cry. (Yes, I KNOW only a couple made me cry; they're numbered 3-1). This is out on the big screen once again, and it still threatened to make me weep. An alien is left behind by the others and stays with a family. They become attached and are ultimately separated when he has to go back to where he came from. You can see Drew Barrymore as a small child in this movie. It's heart-wrenching watching the end. 6) Saving Private Ryan: Another Spielberg production! There are many instances where I wanted to cry. Whether they were in battle or whether Private Ryan was yelling at his rescuers so he could help his friends. Or whether it was the ending where the old guy is..... (Ahh, ahh, ahh! I will NEVER tell!) 5) Brave Heart : I don't know what it was about this film that made me feel weepy. I don't know if it was the Scottish Pride thing I have going on (because my mom is full blooded Scottish and YES I've eaten Haggis). There are points where my eyes threatened to flood for no real reason. Especially the battle scene where they moon the enemy. It just does something to me. I always get weepy when I hear the bagpipes, any way. 4) What's Eating Gilbert Grape?: This movie threatened to make me cry! It's the story of Gilbert Grape, played by Johnny Depp (that little hottie!) who is big brother to a mentally handicapped boy and son of a hugely over weight mother. There are many scenes of great emotion, but the ending? Whoa! Worth a view and a box of Kleenex. 3) Night and Fog: This is not a "good cry" flick (if that's what you're looking for.) This is a French documentary about the Holocaust. I had to watch it in my Literature and Society class. They horrify you with what you can't see. For instance, they show a man being castrated, but you only see him from the chest up. His muscles contract and the look on his face is horrifying. A girl in the class turned her head and started crying; our professor walked up to her, grabbed her face, and turned it to the television. She whispered, "These people had to watch this sort of thing EVERY day. Don't YOU turn your head." And so we all tensed up and watched it with our undivided attention. It's horrible. I cried, too. It's footage from the real deal and it shows the concentration camps as they are NOW, overgrown with weeds, merging into old footage of how they were with concrete and barbed wire. Not for those with a weak stomach. 2) Schindler's List: I BAWLED throughout this movie. EVERY moment was a potential tear jerker and it's the only non-documentary to make me cry. It's black and white, starring Liam Neeson and directed by Stephen Spielberg. It's about Oskar Schindler, a real man who helped the Jews during WWII. In reality he's a womanizer who drinks too much, but they made a hero out of him (and he made a hero out of himself). There is a scene that still makes me cry whenever I see it; the women have to undergo "selection" (when they give you a physical to make sure you're still fit to work for the Nazi regime). There is euphoria as the main stars survive, and then there is utter despair as their children are carted off in a truck and hauled away. The mothers chase this truck, crying. OH! I CRIED! This was pretty early in the movie, and the tears started streaming already. I cried throughout the whole thing. Every little thing in this movie made me cry. 1) Chicken Hawk: THIS is the most disgusting movie I have ever set my eyes on. I watched it with my ex (a film major, and this was his assignment). It is a documentary about pedophiles. I bawled my eyes out because there actually ARE people like this in the world. The camera man went around with some sicko. They went to a pizza place to the arcade area where there were little boys. The pedophile introduces himself to a boy and asks him how the arcade game works. He explained it to the older man, with tolerance and patience, like he was just humoring him--like he was just respecting his elders. Then they get out in the car and the pedophile looks into the camera and asks the camera man (and audience), "Do you see that? How he was FLIRTING with me?" SICK!!!! I bawled the whole time, thinking about all the little kids I know... It's THEE creme de la creme of disgusting films.... BUT...if you're a parent or plan to be one some day? I think you ought to watch it. It gives GREAT insight as to how the scumbags think and how you can protect your kids. It is terribly disturbing, though. And if my then-boyfriend didn't have a class in documentary I never would have seen it.

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