A list of movies that make men cry...
and Field of Dreams and Cast Away aren't even on there? for shame.

Breaker Morant should also be on there, of course, granted this article is for the average-man, not the average-film man who's seen Breaker Morant.

"Legends of the Fall"??? how bizarre. who the hell gives a crap.

and I forgot "Empire of the Sun", that one always gets me too.

whenever Rudy takes the field at the end of the game or when Dennis Quaid jogs out to the mound at the end of The Rookie....that's what get's me. I also got choked up at the end of Rabbit Proof Fence when the real-life women came out Schindler's List style...that killed me to be honest. Rabbit Proof Fence is one of the most underrated movies in years.

...the only one of those movies that I recall choking up over was 'SPR'...and it was Ribisi's, not Hanks', death...

hell, I shed more tears during 'She's Having a Baby' than any of those pieces of shite...the birth scene set to Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work"...nurse approaching the family in the waiting room...powerful...precisely in line with Jeff's thesis. If that makes me a pussy, so be it...

That article is MSNBC-worthy? I can easily think of a ton more emotionally impactful movies, even if they didn't cause outright welling...

Collateral
Miami Vice
Heat
Ali

no, sorry, just teasing...seriously though...

Saving Private Ryan
Awakenings
Empire of the Sun (good one Hopscotch)
Last Temptation of Christ
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...my god that's two John Hughes films...but John Candy was just so pitiful at the end...well label me a sucker
A River Runs Through It
American History X
Shawshank Redemption
Antwone Fisher...sappy, ok...
Glory
Chasing Amy...yes, the pinnacle of Kevin Smith's talent choked me up...and it was Jason Lee and Uncle Ben to boot...
The Power of One
Dreamgirls...especially that last scene with Edd...no, ok, I haven't even seen Dreamgirls...

Not all of these are great, or even good, movies, but damn if they didn't have a scene that didn't hit me...

The end of Big Fish really gets me. And Field of Dreams, of course.

Obviously I have father issues.

Mr. Holland's Opus

The one movie that always makes me tear up is Uncommon Valor, especially the scene were Patrick Swayze gets his ass kicked by Randall "Tex" Cobb.

Magnolia has a few tear worthy moments for me.

Empire of the Sun for sure.

And to be sorta random, The Iron Giant gets me all of the time.

I always cry at the end of Chuck Norris movies - because I know that he's kicked enough asses to protect America.

I felt weepy at the end of Friends of Eddie Coyle when Mitchum and Peter Boyle go on their night out.

The only movie that has made me cry (as opposed to misty eyed) did it not once, but twice, and that was Kurosawa's Ikiru. Such a beautiful film.

They stopped being funny to most people at least 2 years ago, but corey3rd's post suddenly reminded me of Chuck Norris Facts and I laughed to myself as though for the very first time.

latest one that I got a little choked up on, which I rarely do:

Pan's Labyrinth

I hate to say it, but the SPOILER ALERT suicide scene in Dead Poets

MSNBC should leave these kinds of articles to Dave White.

I always assumed guys cry not for loss (which would be "girly") but for heroic moments, when the (unlikely?) hero gets his moment of glory. Like in Field of dreams, Shawshank redemption, or Jerry Maguire when Cuba Gooding Jr. finally gets up from the football field and starts doing his routine.

A few different ones:

The ending of Dances With Wolves.
A few scenes in To Be And To Have.
The hospital scene in Aberdeen.

Of course I drink too much and I'm lonely.

ED WOOD, that scene where Patricia Arquette just accepts him for the wierdo he is, always gets me. STAND AND DELIVER, when we hear that the scores are the same or higher on the re-test, really gets me, that's a great Olmos performance and one of the best teacher can make a difference movies ever made. On the same page, and you guys may laugh, but that montage (set, I think, to a Ramones song) in SCHOOL OF ROCK, about halfway through always gets me too.

Most recently it was PAN'S LABYRINTH, and not just the end either.

" always assumed guys cry not for loss (which would be "girly") but for heroic moments,"

That's it. Well, heroic moments and "larger than life" moments. I admit I teared up a bit during Titanic, but it wasn't for Leo's death or anything like that. It was when the massive propeller lifted out of the water, and the look on Kathy Bates' face as it did.

The unfortunate fact is that no theatrical movie will ever touch Brian's Song on the "movies that make guys cry" scale.

THE ELEPHANT MAN: the scene where John Hurt tries to prop his head up to sleep because he wants to be normal. I'm getting clammy just typing this.

Josh, good call on Big Fish -- boy does the ending of that get to me. On a surprising similar note, the final sequence of Spike Lee's 25th Hour blindsided me when I first saw it. I had been liking the movie, but I wasn't expecting the kind of emotional reaction I had at the end. The whole section with that beautiful Brian Cox narration pretty much destroys me.

Other big cry movies for me -- I don't know that they're particularly guy-ish or representative:

--The Iron Giant
--Titanic (for me, not when Jack dies, but -- and Jeff has pointed this out several times -- the beautiful dream sequence at the end)
--Shakespeare in Love ("You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die")
--The Royal Tenenbaums (I can get teared up just thinking about Stiller's character saying "I've had a rough year, dad")

Ebert once said that what always makes him cry at movies is kindness. Me, too. The overtly tragic stuff never does it for some reason.

The end of "Rushmore" always gets me, and I have absolutely no idea why.

I remember damn near bawling at Stiller's line in Royal Tenenbaums - and then later coming to grips with crying during a Ben Stiller movie.

"Shawshank" is "Titanic" for men.

Xiuanataneho!
The only question with Shawhshank is WHEN you start getting misty. Is it when Andy sees Brooks name carved in the wood? Is it when he finds the rock? Or can you hold out until the long shot on the beach?

As for me...too much of a man to cry (you sissies!) but I do frequently get teary.
I'll agree with Titanic (the Kathy Bates bit as above and also the ending dream which SHOULD be sucky as hell and isn't).
Field of Dreams is obvious.
I also agree that some of the unsung moments of Saving Private Ryan are tear-worthy. Ribisi calling for his mom counts and Adam Goldberg's death is still the hardest movie death for me to watch.
The end of Stand by Me is pretty great too, even if Dreyfus turning off the computer to take the kids to the mall is a bit hokey.
Almost anything by Cameron Crowe has teary moments too.
I'll throw in Kate Hudson dancing in the arena, the Tiny Dancer scene and Crudup arriving at Fugit's house in Almost Famous; about the same number of scenes in Say Anything and Jerry Maguire.

And I don't care if Wells hates it, the lighting of the beacons in Return of the King is a damned amazing cinematic moment that totally got me the first time I saw it.

the end of RUSHMORE natch.

and THE IRON GIANT does it everytime.

When the dog dies in "Unbearable Lightness of Being."

And of course any movie that reminds me of my late, distant father with whom I used to play catch. "Field of Dreams" being perversely accurate in that regard. (Hell, dad even looked like Dwier Brown when he was young.)

The final-scene phone call from "Hoosten" to the empty Scottish phone box in "Local Hero."

Most recently, the final scene in "The Lives of Others," as I realized how much so many artists have suffered for their art in a way I never will, and have taken risks I will never have to take. Those were tears of shame, though-- perhaps not the same thing?

I can honestly say that whomever wrote that story is completely out of his mind. With the exception of SPR, none of those illicit even a sniffle from any male cineaste that I know.

My personal bawlers are as follows:

Shawshank Redemption

Good Will Hunting

Field of Dreams (the ultimate male tear-jerker)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Tsotsi

Habla Con Ella "Talk to Her"

In Good Company

Stand By Me

Old Yeller

In other words, almost any really good/great movie that deals with best friend / close-knit group / daddy issues will get the tears going in any man. I can honestly say that I, along with most male movie lovers that I know, shed at least one tear during (among others) The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Friday Night Lights, The Dirty Dozen, Seven Samurai, The Untouchables, Easy Rider, ET, etc.

Oh, and a special mention goes to United 93 (which I still think is the best movie I saw all last year), if for different reasons. I was bawling for and hour after the end credits rolled

Watching senior citizens hurting in some way (physically or emotionally) is a manipulative trick, but it works. Man it works.

The scene in Shawshank that ALWAYS gets me is when Brooks is at the park feeding the birds and the voice over goes "sometimes I think Jake will stop by and say 'hello', but he never does.".

And I'm probably not spoiling much for this group of readers, but Michael Caine's death in "Children of Men" hit me pretty hard too.

While not specifically sad for men,

The Sea Inside. WOW, you want to leave a theater feeling damaged, that'll do it.

Fine, I'll admit it. I teared up at the end of Rocky Balboa Goddammit.

Josh, I got your back there. In a manly sort of way, I mean. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Balboa is very powerful at the end--on a par with the original. It definitely got to me.

"I remember damn near bawling at Stiller's line in Royal Tenenbaums"

Was that the one near the end when he tells his dad he's had a really hard year? I still think about that line once and a while, and I don't quite know why. Maybe its due to the fact that it's a such a human moment, and he doesn't just blurt out, "I miss my wife!".

I'll concur that the end of Rocky Balboa was well done. I think only Rocky and Rocky Balboa (as much I enjoy the kitsch of Rocky III) earned a real emotional ending.

And I can't believe I left ET off before. They don't get much better than ET.
I read thebuddha's list and was going to say, "The Untouchables??" until I remembered Connery's great death scene and also the great bit where Charles Martin Smith gets all pissed and starts kicking ass.

I think United93 left me more raw, stunned and in awe (of the story and of the filmmaking) than teary.

I apparently have to see Rushmore again because I remember enjoying it but have no memory of the ending. Ditto for Royal Tenenbaums.

And, darn - can I throw in when Wilson drifts away in Cast Away?
Poor, poor Wilson...

I can think of three quick ones:

Lonesome Dove - When Danny Glover mistakenly picks up the indian baby.

The Sweet Hereafter - The dad watching the school bus slide onto the ice.

Dead Mans Shoes - The last member of the gang confessing to his wife what he DIDN'T do. The acting and the editing in that is just brutal.

And on a side note, early on in the movie, Paddy Considine uses the word "cunt" in a way that made every single hair on my body just about pop out of my skin. THAT'S the kind of clip I want to see on an Oscars montage.

Thinking back on "Titanic", I feel sadder remembering the old couple huddled together in their bed during the sinking of the ship than I do for Jack's already dead body getting pushed into the deep.

Funny story,

I take my family to see "In America" Christmas '03. It's a good movie, I've seen it before I figured they'd like it too.

When the lights came up every single one of them was crying, and been crying for awhile. then they all looked at me and as a group said, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you take us to a movie for us to cry for two hours?". It's such a good movie though.

AMEN Hallick, Lonesome Dove has some amazingly moving, touching moments. But the one that gets mee is when Danny Glover reappears as a ghost to help his friend find his way in part 4. And the scene with Chris Cooper realizing he's found his baby.

Jeffrey is right: it's about loss for guys. For me it's about the loss of dreams, the loss of love, lonliness, and death. But there also has to be courage and dignity in facing the loss. Dozens of movie choke me up, but these five reduced me to a sobbing mess:

The Shawshank Redemption
Jerry Maguire
Immortal Beloved
The New World
Children of Men

The end of Rushmore had the opposite effect on me. Just when it seems everything in the world has resumed its rightful place, they make it clear that Max has no intention whatsoever of giving up. It's a great moment, and kind of emotional, but I feel the same way about that scene that I do about Hannibal Lecter's "I'm having an old friend for dinner" line.

But what do I know? I still get choked up over Kirk's eulogy of Spock in Wrath of Khan, and Spock isn't even really dead...

I get misty eyed at the end of Raising Arizona when H.I. is dreaming of a possible future for himself and Ed:
"...But I saw an old couple bein' visited by their children and all their grandchildren too. And the old couple wasn't screwed up, and neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I don't know, you tell me. This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleein' reality, like I know I'm liable to do? But me'n Ed, we can be good too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us. And it seemed like...well...our home. If not Arizona, then a land, not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved...I dunno, maybe it was Utah."

Chrissakes, I get worked up just typing it out and it's a friggin' comedy.

Ray Liotta leaving his semi-retarded brother Tom Hulce at the end of DOMINICK AND EUGENE hit me pretty hard. And Whoopie Goldberg being reunited with her kids at the end of COLOR PURPLE makes my eyes swell up a bit, too. But Christopher Eccelston and Kate Winslet finding their children in JUDE wiped me out like pretty much no other movie ever has. I was fucking stunned and in tears.

I know I've mentioned this in the past, but ABOUT SCHMIDT's ending really gets me. Not to keep on the Burton thing but has anyone mentioned EDWARD SCISSORHANDS yet?

Rich, nice thought on Rushmore.

Yeah, "The Movie Man," I'm with you on "Schmidt." Certainly the only time Jack's got any tears out of my eyes. Oh-- shit! How wrong I am! I just now remembered the scene, near the end of "Five Easy Pieces," where Jack, alone with his father, talks to him at last, and tells him what's in his heart.

"I know I've mentioned this in the past, but ABOUT SCHMIDT's ending really gets me."

Well at the end of Wrath of Khan, there was no way to know if Spock was really dead or not at the time. Anyhow, I rewatched it a couple years ago, and it got to me too.

Also, I get misty eyed at the end of Terminator 2, when Arnold looks at the kid and says, "I know now why you cry..." And yeah, for some reason, about 8 years ago, that seen shook me to the core. And it still gives me goosebumps, just thinking about it.

The end of To Kill a Mockingbird also gets me - from pretty much the moment that Atticus thanks Boo Radley for his children until the end of the narration, where an older Scout says, "...and he'd be there all night."

I don't really ever bawl, but Ben-Hur gets me pretty good (maybe my Christian upbringing has something to do with it), but I find it way more powerful than The Passion of the Christ was (although the seen in said film where Jesus stumbles and his mother comes to him, that was something else).

Although I might get ripped for it, the end of Return of the Jedi, where Vader tells Luke that he was right...well, it has been known to illicit a tear or two in its time (and when I was 5, the Ewok getting killed really wrecked me!).

Sometimes, it's seeing an old movie in a new light. Some time after my Grandfather's death, I rewatched The Princess Bride. I got to the end, where Peter Falk tells his grandson 'As you wish', and just completely lost it.

Man, there are a lot of emotional men out there judging by this thread. But I guess we're just on the subject of what makes us cry. And it's interesting to point out the different effects some movies have on genders.

For example, my girlfriend cried for about an hour after "Finding Neverland", I didn't mist up once. She doesn't get "Field of Dreams" and hates when I turn it on. oh well. I'm going to anyway.

When I was younger and saw Forrest Gump, the scene that got to me was when he looks at the kid for the firs time and can't help but ask if he's like him. Tom Hanks is at his best in that scene.

SHIT!!!!

I totally forgot about that scene Geoff. Yeah, it's pretty hard not to get choked up. To me, it really does just tie the whole movie together.

There are other scenes in that movie that get to some people, but that one for me realllllly does it.

and speaking of Tom Hanks... the end of Philadelphia. when you watch the old family film reel over that Neil Young song. It's a strong punctuation mark on that film which I've never thought was great, but that ending sure is.

Yeah, the only recent movie that's really gotten to me was Children of Men, mostly (of course) when the baby starts crying.

sorry dz but the last shot of pam grier singing along to "across 110th street" in JACKIE BROWN makes me cry every time.

"Sophie's Choice" when you find out about her having to choose between her 2 children. Also "Mask" when Rocky Dennis dies and the bikers are putting baseball cards on his grave.

My god, what a sad bunch of pussies you are. That being said, The Elephant Man, has at least a half a dozen scenes that make me tear up. The last shot of Shawshank, and the scene in Brokeback, when Ennis visits Jack Twist's parents...that look in his mother's eyes gets me. Does everyone do that thing where you fake like your yawning as a way to cover up you're incredibly un-manlike behavior?

no titus. i cry like a baby. proud that i'm in touch with my feelings. don't tell coulter. but as a kid, i also cried at the end of SILENT RUNNING, SON OF KONG, 7 FACES OF DR LAO and of course ET.

PLATOON made me weep too.

but IKIRU beats 'em all. wah!

Late to the party.

But the first time I saw Escape Fron the Planet of the Apes (on TV) I was a complete wreck as the credits rolled. SPOILER
Cornelius and Zera getting shot on the boat, crawling toward each other to die, and then the chimp baby in its cage saying "mama"...

Of course, I was also seven or eight years old. Probably best not to revisit that one.

In approximate order of devastation (most most to most):
Elephant Man (as he lays down to sleep…)
Lonesome Dove (Woodrow & Augustus, and the snow falling outside the cabin, the last letters being written…)
Six Feet Under (Series Finale, final 10 minutes)
Band of Brothers: Episode 10 (several parts during the series, but, specifically, when the real Major Winters speaks at the end of serving with heroes)
Saving Private Ryan
Gallipoli
The Color Purple (forgiveness)
American Beauty (end, black & white life passage)
Dances with Wolves (Dunbar riding off as Wind In His Hair calls from a vantage above)
Something the Lord Made (HBO, as Vivien is honored at the end)
Of course, there are others, plenty in fact, which have brought me to tears, but the above stand out.
Truly, this is one of my favorite threads. Bravo to all that pitched in.

Damn this short memory of mine!

Very very top: United 93. Some kids sitting up front laughed at the end (for whatever effect) and I, a man who firmly believes in free speech and all that it represents, could not contain my indignation and proceeded to let them know of my displeasure.

I have to ditto Mitch on Band of Brothers and Six Feet Under (neither of which are movies, per se, I grant you).

The last 10 minutes of Six Feet Under - a show that sometimes went too far in its melodramatic wallowing - were as good as ANYTHING I've ever seen on TV. It's utterly devastating and wonderful.

And same with Band of Brothers where the whole last episode is remarkable but, after you've been watching for months, the effect of finally seeing the names of the soldiers who have been introducing the episodes is amazing. Then you find out what happened to them - how some of them died and some of these true heroes went on to live perfectly ordinary lives.
And Winters' speech is short and to the point...I believe it's simply that his grandson asked him if he was a hero in the war and he responded, "No, but I served in a company of heroes." It's beyond modest given what he accomplished and it's a perfect end to a great series.

I feel I should add something new too so I'll throw in Rain Man (c'mon!).

"To Kill a Mockingbird"'s a good one - hell, I feel the tears well up every time I hear the first notes of that Elmer Bernstein score.

Another great weepy moment for me is the scene in "The Best Years of Our Lives" where Harold Russell, having lost his hands in the war and kept his childhood sweetheart at arm's length as a result for pretty much the whole movie, finally breaks down and lets her dress him for bed, essentially coming to the realization that, despite his handicap, she's absolutely willing to do this for the rest of her life.

Played pretty much silently, Wyler directs the shit out of that scene, and it absolutely destroys me. I get misty-eyed just thinking about it.

definitely ESCAPE FROM APES etc made me cry.
but we're all forgeting a biggie:

HAROLD AND MAUDE

The endings of "Color Purple" and "Shawshank" are both devastatingly beautiful, of course...those always get me. Bonus points to Darabont for pulling the camera away as Red & Andy approach each other so as to avoid what could have been sappy. The first flick to come to mind though is a little thing Jim Sheridan did called "Into the West" w/ Gabriel Byrne. I don't want to spoil the ending, but one of his kids has a "vision" at the end during a moment of peril, and um, well...(pull it together).....(easy)....it just destroyed me when I saw it. See it if you haven't already...there's gypsies, horse-ridin', Byrne in top form....great little movie. On a lighter note, I think I did cry at the end of "Dreamgirls"...I just knew that was 10 bucks I'd never see again....

I am often pleasantly surprised when I read a comment from someone that expresses feeling similar to mine. But I was stunned (stunned, I tell you!) when I read this from actionman about a movie I assumed no one else even remembered:

"I shed more tears during 'She's Having a Baby' than any of those pieces of shite...the birth scene set to Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work"...nurse approaching the family in the waiting room...powerful..."

Abso-fuckin-lutely! The song, the drop of blood... That entire scene KILLS ME in a way that few movies ever have. Go figure.

On a more conventional note:

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Ray Kinsella asking his dad, "Wanna have a catch" in Field of Dreams (of course).

Roy Hobbs' final home run in The Natural.

"Yo, Adrian. I did it" in Rocky.

Stanley Mellish saying, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute" as a knife is plunged into his heart in Saving Private Ryan.

The elder Ryan (who was that guy?) asking his wife to "Tell me I'm a good man" in Saving Private Ryan.

William Wallace releasing a mortal cry as he is disemboweled in Braveheart.

The dead bodies of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and Private Trip tumbling down to rest together in Glory.

Ron Kovic gurgling as a bullet severs his spine in Born on the Fourth of July.

Maximus going home at the end of Gladiator.

Wind In His Hair saying, "Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?" in Dances With Wolves.

"It is accomplished" as Jesus transcends in The Last Temptation of Christ.

Rodrigo Mendoza lifting his head to see the murder of Father Gabriel and the Indians, and then dying himself in The Mission.

Sharon refusing to renounce her anger towards God in The Rapture.

Spock telling Kirk, "I have been, and always will be, your friend in Wrath of Khan.

Mateo dying as Sarah's baby is born in In America.

The second time Max Klein eats strawberries in Fearless.

Pai doing her Maori chants in front of her father in The Whale Rider.

Sara and Ben making love for the first (and last) time in Leaving Las Vegas.

Grave of the Fireflies. The whole thing.
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Wow! I'm a bigger pussy than I thought.

Rocky Balboa - Practically the first 20 minutes.

In America - "Say goodbye to Frankie"

Forrest Gump - "Is he smart or is he...he..." In that moment you realize that Forrest knows so much more than he's ever been given credit for.
FG - "and he's so smart Jenny.... You'd be so proud of him..... *I* am"

Last of the Mohicans - "Miss Munroe they are not strangers; and they stay as they lay"

Passion of the Christ - When He stumbles and His mother runs to him interplayed with a flashback

It's A Wonderful Life - "To my brother, the richest man in town!"

Jersey Girl (yes, that Jersey Girl) - "I hate you right back....you and your mom took my life away from me. I just want it back"...the dedication to his dad at the end.

Glory - "I love the 54th"

When Rudy got the sack at the end.

Yeah...Whale Rider when she's giving her speech about her grandfather and her grandfather is not there

24 season 2, when George Mason has radiation poisioning and calls his son in to let him know he's left him some money...

Many episodes of Friday Night Lights this year.

too many others to mention. I cry at most standard crying scenes. Automatic waterworks.

Good call on It's a Wonderful Life. The scene with the brother gets me every time, as does the scene where he tells Donna Reed that he never wants to settle down, never wants to get married, never wants to get trapped in this pathetic little town, and then realizes that's exactly what he's going to do.

"and speaking of Tom Hanks... the end of Philadelphia. when you watch the old family film reel over that Neil Young song. It's a strong punctuation mark on that film which I've never thought was great, but that ending sure is."

Agreed agreed agreed, Hopscotch.

This is an oldie, but I never saw it until very recently, and that's HUD.

There's a scene in the middle where Melvyn Douglas and his son are at the movie theater and there's a bouncing ball song that comes on screen and the audience proceeds to sing. The song is "My Darling Clementine". And just the look on Melvyn Douglas's face as he sings, the enthusiasm. And watching the movie for the first time, I knew he was going to die soon. That scene hit me like a ton of bricks.

And it reminded me of the final scene in PATHS OF GLORY, another good one involving a song. I don't think I've ever cried watching it, but I've misted up a couple of times.

and of course LOVE STORY when...

what?

I'm gonna second or third the ROCKY BALBOA sentiment. It's not a good movie and the film falters even by the standards of the Rocky movie (limp climactic training scene, and that's a big thing to fuck up in a Rocky movie) but the moment, when Rocky is trying to explain to Pauly in the meat plant why he wants to fight again, and how he needs to get all of this pain out, that really got to me. I think its one of the most moving moments of the series.

Also the Jimmy Stewart thing reminded me, I tend to choke up in VERTIGO when Stewart's remake of the Kim Novak character is complete, and he sees her for the first time as she used to be. Damn that's a good movie.

Glad I'm not the only one. When the monkeys die, people-a-gonna cry!

Grave of the Fireflies...good one. Vertigo, too. It's one of the few films I HAVE to see projected every time it plays locally, no matter how many times I've watched it.

(Fondles blue cloth, sips Pabst Blue Ribbon and stares into space.)

Ooooh, ooooh, Mr. Wells! I got one!

The bar conversation between the two vets in The Straight Story. Also the moment Harry Dean spots his bro riding up on that mower.

And as long as we're talking about the maestro, in whose absence I would not exist...

Henry embracing the lady with the cheeks in Radiator Heaven

Laura's ascension at the end of Fire Walk With Me

Ben's "In Dreams" karaoke. Chokes me up every time.

and WAKING LIFE tears me up at a few points.

i also wept at the perfect end of BEFORE SUNSET.