Movie scenes that sank your heart

I'm not reading through eight pages of posts to see if its been mentioned or not, but I was just devastated by Vanessa Redgrave's confession at the end of Atonement.
 
The end of the world according to garp and the Futurama episode that gets me every time isn't the dog episode but the one about Fry's brother.
 
The massively underrated October Sky, Jake Gyllenenenehaal is in the elevator down to the coal mine, looks up and sees a shooting star through the grate, then lift lurches downward.
 
How about "Bang the Drum Slowly"?

A lot of you may have never seen it. Robert De Niro plays a mediocre major league catcher whose teammates find out has a terminal illness. This was a good early glimpse of De Niro's range as an actor.

Quote from the movie:

Bruce Pearson: Everybody'd be nice to you if they knew you were dying.
Henry Wiggen: Everybody knows everybody is dying; that's why people are as good as they are.
 
The Deer Hunter -- When Walken finally pulls the trigger, DeNiro's reaction just about kills me.

Contact -- The Jody Foster character as a girl, after her dad dies.

Lawrence of Arabia -- After the Arabs move into Damascus and everything goes to **** in the city, the British officer walks through the hospital shouting "Outrageous!"

Bridge Over the River Kwai -- right at the end, when all the good guys are laying there dead and Alec Guiness realizes what he has done and falls on the detonator... "Madness! Madness!"

The English Patient -- When you realize that there's no way Ralph Fiennes makes it back in time for the girl and that she will certainly die in the Cave of the Swimmers.

Another one, super underrated these days, On the Waterfront -- "I could have been a contender!" and the scene soon after when Terry sees his brother hanging dead on the hook.

Most recently, for me, --

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (which is an incredible movie, IMHO) -- the conversation between the dad and the son when the dad (Von Sydow) tells the son that it should be the other way around, that it should be the son watching the dad in that condition. Totally tore me up.

On a lighter note (sort of), Rocky III -- when Clubber Lang kills Mickey. I thought that was the worst thing I had ever seen when I was a kid.
 
I know this is cheating as it is a personal video but, how's this for a sobber...

Growing up in Dallas, I was really, really close to my grandfather who lived in Brownwood. I spent a lot of time with him there and on our family farm in Comanche. He taught me a lot. Anyway, I have lots of fond memories of the farm, spending summers in Hill Country as he worked for Southwestern Bell laying line and, especially, a yearly tradition we called Christmas on the Farm. Basically, a gathering of our entire family of a few days before X-mas.

Anway, he got pancreatic cancer my senior year of high school. I spent as much time with him as I could; however, it wasn't enough. Part of it was that I didn't have a car when I got to UT; part of it was insulating myself from the situation as I was young and didn't know how to handle death and dying. I went to visit him for the last time in early November of 1991. I headed back to campus and found out that he had passed while I was travelling back to Austin.

Last year I was in Dallas for a visit when my brother motioned for me to come into the den. Somehow, he had gotten hold of a tape of one of the last Christmas on the Farms - approx. 1985. Kind of like Chevy Chase in X-Mas Vacation, you don't know tears until you've found a long, lost tape of some of your favorite family memories. A tape that none of us knew existed. I've still got it but have only watched it once. Way too sad.
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There is a Scene in Constant Gardener when Justin is forced to run back to the UN plane, attempting to avoid death as the relief station he is visiting comes under attack by tribal bandits. As he boards the plane he lifts up a tribal child who had been running with him. The pilot refuses to let the child board. Justin attempts to purchase passage for the child by bribing the pilot. The bribe is refused and the child is left behind. That scene just killed me.

The scene in Friday Night Lights where Boobie Miles breaks down crying in his uncle's car, wailing, "I wanna play football."

The last scene in FNL, when Winchell throws the football to a bunch of kids before leaving with Billingsley and Chavez gets to me as well.

The last few minutes of We Were Soldiers, ending with Gibson at the memorial.

Finally, I agree with all of the Pan's Labyrinth mentions.
 
Elisabeth Shue getting violently raped by those kids at the end of Leaving Las Vegas still doesn't sit too well with me and I haven't seen that movie since its release ('95?).
 
final scene in Billy Crystal's production of "61", about Roger Maris breaking the Babe's single season home run record.

Mark McGwire is interviewed by the media upon breaking Maris' record, feeling proud that his bat will lay next to Roger's in the HOF ... Mrs. Maris is watching from a hospital bed.

Got really misty while watching that.
 
Lion King where Simba runs up to his dad telling him to wake up
Blood In Blood Out. Where the guy is finally going to meet his daughter and he asks the guard to let him have a moment to clean up and his new friend shanks him
and then kinda cheesy but Definitely Maybe, when Ryan Renoylds tells his daughter the happy ending to the story was having her.
 
I don't want to be sad so I am not going to read all posts to see if anybody put in:

The ending to "Untamed Heart".
 
The original "Brian's Song" his speech about Brian Piccolo.

The ending of Simon Birch. (way underrated movie--- great for teenage boys)

Ending of where the red fern grows.
 
For me - it is a not so popular movie - "Grace Is Gone"



John Cusack play an Army spouse - his wife is deployed and is killed in Iraq . He has his daughters at home that he does not know how to relate to them. He packs the car up and tries to "get to know his kids" on a roadtrip.

He begins to have an emotional breakdown and gets on a pay phone to call his home phone (to hear his wife's voice on the answering machine) - to speak to his wife - to get her advice on how to relate / raise his girls - and just listening to him speak "to" his wife.... who is dead - absolutely kills me!
 
Lonesome Dove-
When Woodrow can't bring himself to tell Newt he is his father just before he leaves Montana.

A River Runs Through It-
"I'm Haunted by Waters."
 
The final scene in Breaker Morant, when Morant and Handcock are walking, hand in hand, to face the firing squad as the sun rises.
 
I'll tell you one that gets me... but it is pretty obscure.

The end of Victory. When Pele scores the tying goal and the German captain stands up and cheers. It's just a really cool scene because he loves the beauty of the game more than the Nazis and war.
 
Rudy -- but the scene where he gets accepted to college.

Armagedon - when the dude leaves the toy space shuttle on the curb and his ex tells his son that he is a salesman and the end where he runs up to him.

Love of the Game -- where the black player catches the ball over the fence to save a home run.

We Were Soldiers -- the whole damn thing.

Bridge to Terribeatha -- because that gilrs looks and acts exactly like my first girlfriend (who I e-mailed about 45 minutes into the movie to tell her that she needed to see this, that girl was exactly like, then I had e-mail after to movie was over and tell her umm...nevermind...kinda ackward)

Beautiful Mind -- the ending where he is accepting the Nobel Prize

A Place in the Heart -- Same reasons as Konxville - horn -- but also any movie that has the hymn "In the Garden" sung like the church I grew up in.
 
Same reasons as Konxville - horn -- but also any movie that has the hymn "In the Garden" sung like the church I grew up in.

That's precisely why I put that in there.
 
Gatorhorn's is a good one. The whole "What's in the box?" thing had me freaked out for awhile.

Also in Gladiator, when Maximus finds his wife and son hung and burned.
 
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