Scenes in movies that bring a tear to your eye.

[Quo Vadimus]

^ That whole scene gets me, starting with "I know your face"

The scene in FOTR where Frodo is standing on the beach alone, palm outstretched, gorgeous music in the background gets me every time. "All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."

 

[Neroon]

Mal's speech about treating a ship with love at the end of Serenity.

Oh yeah. And not long before that scene, how about the funeral scene, nicely understated as it is, in "Serenity". The crew standing in mourning for their three friends. Then Zoe walks slowly but purposefully forward with the candle.

 

[dmouse]

CAST AWAY: the scene on the raft as 'Wilson' floats away from his reach.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN: the opening and closing scenes. [sniff!]

 

[CheapTrick]

Mal's speech about treating a ship with love at the end of Serenity.

Also the scene when Kaylee asks "Where's Wash?" and Zoe say "He's not coming." or something like that...

 

[Non Sync]

My Dog Skip when the mother discovers Skip had passed away.

 

[Caleuche]

I don't tend to cry at movies, I dislike schmaltz and something like Schindlers List just gets a reaction of stunned disbelief and depression, more than anything else.

The only time I can remember crying because I was sad from what I had seen on screen is Babylon 5s' Sleeping in Light episode. I had to pause the dvd during the Sunday drive scene and watch the rest of that in small installments.

Actually answering the question and choosing a movie instead of a TV show, I had a tear in my eye when the Jamaican bobsled team crosses the line carrying their sled in Cool Runnings, I'm embarrassed to say! Oh, the nobility! Oh, the Human spirit!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Edward G. Robinson's death scene in Soylent Green. So poignant, beautiful and tragic on so many levels. After nearly a lifetime of lost hope for Earth (which has itself has essentially committed metaphorical suicide), he reaches some measure of peace and happiness just before he dies by choice, meanwhile Charlton Heston is banging on the glass, trying to get him to reconsider his suicide.

What no one else knew at the time was that Heston wasn't acting. His tears were real - for Robinson who was himself dying when the film was made.

 

[Kelso]

"Yo, Adrian... I did it!"

 

[Super Grover]

Remember when Ernest got beat up by the construction worker in Ernest goes to Camp? That's always hard to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDMTiMAqWw

then the song afterward. Something that gives a little more depth and humanity to a guy everyone thinks is just the goofy "KnowwhatImeanVern." guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpeX45igVI

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

For me, when Forrest loses his Jenny

What gets me is when he talks about how little Forrest has written her a letter and he leavs it at the grave since little Forrest said he couldn't read it.

Actually, Forrest *could* read, his son told him not to read that one letter. This is the voiceover from that scene:

And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you.

 

[doubleohfive]

For me, when Forrest loses his Jenny

What gets me is when he talks about how little Forrest has written her a letter and he leavs it at the grave since little Forrest said he couldn't read it.

Actually, Forrest *could* read, his son told him not to read that one letter. This is the voiceover from that scene:

And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you.

That's exactly what Emher said. Nothing in his post suggested that Forrest couldn't read.

 

[Emher]

For me, when Forrest loses his Jenny

What gets me is when he talks about how little Forrest has written her a letter and he leavs it at the grave since little Forrest said he couldn't read it.

Actually, Forrest *could* read, his son told him not to read that one letter.

Uh yeah. I've seen the movie about 50 times so I got that. I of course meant that little Forrest had told him not to read it. For some reason that just gets me.