Here are the top nine most tear-jerking scenes in movie history.
Sarandon plays Jackie who is mother earth incarnate, according to Roberts.
Shes the instinctive caretaker.
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She knows her childrens quirks and desires, their wants and needs as if they were her own.
Give my daughter the shot!
MacLaines character cannot save her daughter.
And, at this moment, she grabs onto one action she has any semblance of control over.
She cannot change the future, but she can make these last moments as painless as possible.
The pretense of decorum that she maintains as a cold and polished woman finally evaporates.
Can she right all the wrong she has done as her daughter lay in a hospital bed?
She holds on tightly to her baby girl and son, explaining that she cannot choose.
How is a mother supposed to send one of her children to their immediate death via gas chamber?
Yet, if she doesnt choose, she loses both.
It hurts too much, she yells.
Its a jaw-dropping performance.
A tearjerking moment that instantaneously supplants the films former eerie atmosphere with one of deafening loss.
Within moments, the tone shifts seamlessly from suspense to sorrow.
And its all thanks to a heartwrenching Collette.
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Im fine!
I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter cant.
She never could…I wanna know why.
You call someone who loses their spouse a widow, a child who loses their parent an orphan.
In this scene, Sally Field wails in agony on the day of her daughters funeral.
Its not supposed to happen this way, she says, Im supposed to go first.
Expected to continue living, but how?
In one moment, tears run down her face as her body seems lifeless.
Seconds later, her fury bubbles as her body becomes jittery with the adrenaline of her rage.
What would you do to preserve his wonder and innocence in the face of unbridled cruelty and abuse?
Would you consider convincing him that its all a game?
Guidos relentless optimism his feigned sense of nonchalance and jocularity is at once awe-inspiring and tragic.
He is deathly afraid but keeps his fear from his child.
In the end, Guido puts on one final performance for his son.
He walks to his death.
He winks before employing an exaggerated, circus-like gait.
I hate you!
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A small room with his mother.
A daily regimen of exercise and simple meals.
Conversations only ever between two.
Its all Jack knows.
Ma (Brie Larson) has protected him from the truth from the beauty of the outside world.
She doesnt want him to understand they are trapped being held captive by his mothers kidnapper.
Ma concocts a plan.
Yet, for this to work, the two have to practice rolling him up real tight.
They do it over and over again.
Hes moving too much.
Yet, this I hate you is so much more loaded than the angsty teenagers you-dont-get-me-esque-spiel.
Jack does not understand the depth of the situation.
His innocence and aggravation combined with her commitment and protective instinct ia simply too much to withstand.
Bitter divorces bring out the worst in people.
Thats whats at play inMarriage Story.
Theyve both hired top-notch lawyers to drown the other.
He sees a route to win this battle they have both already irreversibly lost, and he takes it.
This scene is less tear-jerking in its sadness and more shell-shocking.
You stare at the screen frozen.
Unable to process any dialogue that follows suit.
Your eyes bulge at the extent of the vitriol spewed.
Its soul-shaking poignancy via Noah Baumbachs deft dialogue and Drivers authentic mix of depletion, anger, and sorrow.
Mufasa falls to his death in slow-motion, after his brother Scar aids in his destruction.
Scar then contributes to his brothers demise before snarkily uttering, Long live the King.
Yet, it is Simbas reaction to his fathers death that is unbearable.
Simba nestles his head into his fathers nose, and begs him to get up, but nothing happens.
He pulls on his ear.
A child should not lose a parent before they come of age.
Who is supposed to teach him to be king?
Who will be his father now?
