Definitely watch it. And just coz you haven�t seen hope floats I should still get at least one star, coz I still answered :-) a perfect world is quite sad too :-(
The Search starring Montgomery Clift. It is set (and filmed) in postwar Europe - the bombed out cities really are bombed out cities. One little boy, released from a concentration camp escapes from the childrens home and goes to live among the ruins and is then befriended by a GI (Montgomery Clift). Meanwhile the little boys mother is looking for him. I watched this whilst ironing one afternoon and had to unplug the iron because I could no longer see through my tears.
indecent proposal gets me every time at the end when he's out on the deck and she sits behind him and says "have i ever told you that i love you" and he goes "still" and she says "always" god it gets to you right in the gut. What a fab film where it shows money isnt the answer to everything.