My Eyes! EW's 50 Best Tearjerkers
Personally, I try to steer clear of films that make me cry. I mean, real life's got enough tears as it is. Still, I understand the need to commiserate with your favorite stars in onscreen fiction. Yet I'm not sure I agree with Entertainment Weekly that Terms of Endearment is the Best Tearjerker of All Time -- although that Debra Winger dying in bed scene certainly is really a downer.
Am I wrong to think that Brian's Song and Love Story inspired more tears in moviegoers? And why is Brokeback Mountain the only movie in the last 15 years to make the Top 10 List? I'm just asking. Overall, it's a thoughtful list. But still. Terms of Endearment? What's your Best Tearjerker? I know you can do better than Terms of Endearment.
I would have to say Steel Magnolias. Even though I have seen it about 200 times, I try to choke back that lump in my throat everytime Sally Field goes nuts at the funeral of her daughter, played by Julia Roberts, and fail. I have never, ever been able to hold back the tears. The hysterics Sally Field bursts into cannot be ignored. Even my uncle who never cries had to walk out of the room the first time he saw it. And then the best of it is when you turn to laughs when Olympia Dukakis' character says "if you want to hit something, here, hit this, hit Ouiser" grabbing Shirley Maclaine's character. You go from sobbing to lauging virtually at the same time!
I would have to say Steel Magnolias. Even though I have seen it about 200 times, I try to choke back that lump in my throat everytime Sally Field goes nuts at the funeral of her daughter, played by Julia Roberts, and fail. I have never, ever been able to hold back the tears. The hysterics Sally Field bursts into cannot be ignored. Even my uncle who never cries had to walk out of the room the first time he saw it. And then the best of it is when you turn to laughs when Olympia Dukakis' character says "if you want to hit something, here, hit this, hit Ouiser" grabbing Shirley Maclaine's character. You go from sobbing to lauging virtually at the same time!
I cry a good bit during just about every movie at the slightest drop of sensitivity. Some favorite sob stories are City of Angels, The Titanic, When Rabbit Howls and more recently the ending of The Bridge to Teribithia (sp?). And if it's funny enough...I'll cry tears of joy too. Wonder what has been the most emotionally, tear driving, movie of the summer season? I know it's a musical comedy, but think Hairspray's one of the scariest (seeing Travolta as a woman!).