Movie scenes that sank your heart

The Forrest Gump one and the Cast Away are both great choices.

The I Am Legend scene also, man that was rough.

The end of The Mist is different from the book, and excruciating. I felt like I had been kicked right in the nuts.

End of Armageddon, I know, I know, screw you guys.
 
I have a 10 year-old daughter. To this day, even the thought of the Schlindler's List scene w/ the little girl gets me. And, I haven't seen the movie in 15 years.

I liked the end of We Are Marshall when the asst. coach apologizes for keeping his wife. She says that he's not keeping her and the camera pans out to see that nobody has left the field.

We Were Soldiers - Obviously the end but also the part where they all leave their families in the middle of the night to go to Nam.

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Victory - cheesy but it's a childhood memory thing for me
Signs - The end where everything comes together along with the music really gets me. I know the plot has holes and many people hated it, but I grew up watching Twilight Zone and I love twists.
Band of Brothers - Concentration camp

Extra-special mention - I think most of y'all have seen it but it's the video that one of the Hornfan members made of the National Championship season to the music of Requim.
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believe it or not....when Goose dies.
i was 10 when I first saw it and it still get to me every time.
Mother Goose, you sir are no poozee.
 
Lots of good suggestions already...

Also, saw the actual choice scene in Sophie's Choice on a movie channel last night... It was pretty heart-ripping.
 
I'd say Forrest Gump, but I'd put forward the scene where he finds out the kid is his, and the first thing he asks is if it is smart. Shows how even though he's been unflappable in taking all the **** about being stupid, it really got to him. The scene over jenny's grave is really sad too though.

I've never watched the movie Where the Red Fern Grows because that book absolutely destroyed me as a kid. I really think I cried for days after reading that book. I still have it, and just looking at the cover almost 20 years later still chokes me up.
 
2 Stephen King books turned to movies

Green Mile- when Tom Hanks asks Big John Coffey what he wants Tom's character to do in regards to the upcoming execution

Shawshank Redemption- When Red decides to leave Brooks' boarding room and begins his solilquiy of "get busy leaving or get busy dying

2 old school ones that made me cry when I was a kid

The Magnificent Seven when they first start to get killed off in the big battle scene

The Dirty Dozen, I stole this from Sleepless in Seattle, but I did get choked up when Jim Brown doesn't make it to the ATV that's leaving while hurling grenades down the bomb shaft ventilators
 
If Old Yeller isn't on your list, you are likely to be a sociopath.

Graveside sscene in Private Ryan is solid.

But the one scene that had me bawling -- I'm talking a blubbering fool -- was in an episode of E.R. (7 years ago, when I actually watched E.R.)

A young couple came in -- woman was 5 mos pregnant or so, and had gone into early labor. They couldn't stop it. The tiny, feeble baby was born alive, but was not long for this world. I the hours that he had, they held him, and loved him. The took him up to the roof, out in the sunshine, and had him baptized. And they held him as he died. The episode was called "Sand and Water," named after the incredibly sad and beautiful song of the same name, which played during the show.

My wife was 7 mos. pregnant at the time, and was out at a meeting that night. My pending fatherhood had finally hit me in the gut. She came home, and immediately saw something in my eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked.

I went to her, and started to tell her -- "there was this baby, and he was so little, and they loved him SO much, and they held him . . . " and I just absolutely and completely broke down. I mean LOST IT.

A parent losing a child will get me every time now. Every damned time.
 
The Opening scene of Forrest Gump, I had heard that this was a wonderfull movie and had shelled out good money to see it and then the previews were over and the pos started and I realized that I was taken again, ripped off and because I was with the wife was gonna be forced to watch a no talent hack *** gimmicky mediocre piece of steaming pile parrott droppings and had shelled out good money to do so
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Castaway was, indeed, a very deep movie.

The scene that got me was when "Wilson" floated away. Man. That was tough.
 
The first movie that ever made me cry....

Shenandoah....when Jimmy Stewart's son comes into the church on crutches at the end.
Absolutely will tear your heart out in a good way.
 
My Girl was a tough one to watch as a kid.

The ending of Pan's Labyrinth is also tough.
The (obvious) scene in Alpha Dog
 
I second the ending of "The Mist" -- talk about emotionally brutalizing an audience.

Also, I can never watch that one scene in American Psycho where he pretends to help Al, the homeless man, before insulting, berating, and finally killing him. This is one of my favorite movies and I generally laugh all through the murder and mayhem...but that scene kills me. Maybe Al was the only truly sympathetic character (besides the kitten)?
 
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Never saw that ep of ER, but had a real-life equivalent. Right after my daughter was born, saw a post on another board by a poster who had a son who was stillborn at 9 months. He went through in excruciating detail the day they spent with him, rocking him, bathing him, going and picking out his outfit (his one outfit), and telling him all the things they wanted him to know. Kills me so hard every time, I'm leaking right now in my office just thinking of it.

I can send you the link if interested, most heartbreaking thing ever, but a naked honest portrayal of a father's love.
 
This may seem crazy but,

In Toy Story 2, when the little girl that has grown up packs her little doll to take to the dump. Sarah McLaughlin's song "When she loved me" is playing during that scene and it kills me.

In My Dog Skip, when the little dog gets old and can't jump anymore and his "master" is all grown up and gone. Reminds me of my dog.
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I'll never watch that movie again.
 
In a time to kill, when Matthew M. had the jurors close their eyes and at the end he told them to imagine she was white.

Ditto, on SPR when he asked his wife if he was a good man and led a good life.
 
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