Five movies that made me cry…

This entry was inspiried by Rusted Amour who posted a list first of the movies that bring a tear to his eye. I thought rather than leave a note, I would post my own entry and my own list of films.

I’m a very sensitive guy myself, and that’s just not the osterio perosis talking here. But there are some movies that will make me cry everytime I watch it, and for your pleasure I’m going to list them here right now for your enjoyment or sad reliving.

So here are the movies that bring a tear to my eye everytime I watch it. May be a few spoilers if you haven’t seen these movies!

5. Life As A House

‘Life As A House’ is about an arcitech (Kevin Kline) who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides to spend his last days building the dream house he never made time to build. He takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son (Christensen) for the summer, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

This film is very funny, but at the same time very sad as the ending will get to you. The ending makes me cry everytime, especially when you finally learn the real reason why George was making the house in the first place. A touching story that I would highly recommend.

4. Beautiful Boy

This movie is every parent’s worst nightmare. Michael Sheen and Maria Bello play the parents of a child who is killed during a massive shooting that occurs at the college he’s attending. Things get worse when the FBI shows up to break the horrific news: their son was the shooter. How would any parent be able to handle this kind of news, especially if they had no idea anything was wrong?

The fights Bello and Sheen go through when fighting about what happened and what part they might have played in it will touch any parent deep in their soul. A film that was a real eye opener and a film that gives us a moment to see things from another perspective. As a Dad, I had a hard time watching this one, and I cried a few times.

3. Good Will Hunting

The trailer for this film is really bad, so I decided to post one of the scenes that really gets to me. In this part, WIll (Matt Damon) is confronted by his Shrink (Robin Williams) concerning the fact that he was abused by his father as a child. Williams tells the young man one thing that every kid who has ever been abused needs to hear: it’s not your fault.

This movie was a masterpiece. The only thing about this great movie that makes me cry even more is the fact that it was beat out for Best Picture by Titanic of all films. A complete disgrace by the Academy if you ask me…

2. The Pianist

A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

This brilliant film was directed by someone who himself was a holocaust survivor from the Krakow ghetto. The war and especially the holocaust seen through his eyes adds to the film authenticity and makes it even sadder than your average film. It was a touching masterpiece about a chapter of human history that should never be forgotten.

1. Field Of Dreams

I guess one reason why I love this movie so much is because I love baseball and I’ve also read the original novel ‘Shoeless Joe’ whcih was written by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella. But the end of thie movie always brings a tear to my eye and to the eyes of most men when Kevin Costner meets up with the Ghost of his Dad and has the chance to say the things he never got to before the old man passed away. The part when he asks his Dad for a catch, something he regretted stopping when he was young, gets me everytime. Check it out:

If that scene doesn’t get to you… you have no heart.

So those are my choices. What about you? What movies have brought a tear to your eye every time you see it?

Peter