Tearjerkers

[kags]

Channel 4 are running a poll for the greatest tearjerkers in film, tv, sport and music. There is a list of nominees on their website, but we will all disagree with the final list anyway, so which is the moment that brings a lump to your throat?

[kags]

I have 2 - Mij the otter getting bashed on the head with a shovel in Ring of Bright Water - I believe that I was psychologically damaged by this as a child, and Alan Green's commentary on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's goal in the 1999 Champions League final.

[kags]

And another one (answering your own quesitions guarantees answers you agree with) - Meryl Streep in the car in The Bridges of Madison County - not so much a lump in the throat as a paroxysm of weeping.

[darth vader]

can't remember character names, but when Tomlinson shouts "Dad!" to Pete Postlethwaite in "Brassed Off"as pete collapses outside the pit

more a lump in my heart than throat - but when the germans go loopy in "Piano player" and he has to sit there in silence and watch them massacre the family across the street

[Philtaz]

I also have two. One when Steve Redgrave won his fifth gold(spine-tingling to say the least) and whenever I hear the Last Post being played.(sniff).

[Rigadon]

Ahhh, the Rugby World Cup final always 'does' it for me and for some reason I can never help but cry at the end of the "Green Mile".....

[Rigadon]

Oh and the orginal 'Hucklebury Finn' film and the infamous scene from 'The Champ'...

[derbyram]

More a lump-in-the-throat moment than a tearjerker but the closing scenes in Blackadder the fourth where they go 'over-the-top', are killed and the battlefield scene changes to a field full of poppies.

[jills]

Oh Kags...Ring of Bright Water....still makes me go all unneccessary just thinking about it. it was the saddest thing I ever saw as a child...I've never watched the film since. I'm a bit of a softy, esp since I had my wee boy last year.....but I can't watch the RSPCA ad with the kitten.....too sad, even tho it's only an ad. The Blackadder episode Derbyram mentions is such a pit of the stomach moment, esp in a comedy. Redgraves 5th medal was a belter too, on the "good" tear jerker side...(I was similarly afflicted when Holyfield beat Tyson!!). When the wee baby died in Trainspotting ....always gets to me. As did the eulogy Gloria Hunniford read out at her daughters funeral.

[brawburd]

So many!! (1) When Kunta Kinte got his toes cut off in Roots (haunted me for years) (2) Schindlers List - all of it (3) Boys from the Blackstuff - all of it! (4) Recent episodes of ER involving the babies of Carter and Kerry

[molly]

"The Color Purple" with Whoopie Goldberg. All through the film really, but especially near the end when her sister came back from Africa to see her. I cried buckets.

[Numbers]

I'll do a music one then: Some Fantastic Place by Squeeze. I well up every damn time.

[kags]

crikey you lot, I need some waterproof mascara........

[flirty41]

Definitely The Bridges of Madison County kags! Tears stream down my face with that! Also, Baby Boom with Diane Keaton when the baby is being given up for adoption, and the little thing just looks at Diane with such sad, pleading eyes - pulls at my heartstrings every time. And the scene at the top of the Empire State building in Sleepless in Seattle when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finally find each other. Another is when Bambi's mum is killed. I'll have to go now - I'm filling up *sniff sniff*

[gazzawazza]

There are absolutely loads of them but the first one that comes to mind is Saving Private Ryan, right at the end where Ryan asks his wife, "Tell me I've been a good man..."

I've also sat in the audience at a play called "Like a Virgin" where I and everyone else blubbed like babies for the last ten minutes!

[molly]

I've just watched Brassed Off this afternoon (while doing my ironing) and yep, Darth,definetly a tearjerker.The bit where his dad collapses, the bit where he looses everything and tries to hang himself and especially Pete Postlethwaite's (fantastic name) speech at the end when they win the competition.Where's the tissues?

[albatross]

two recent films magnolia and good will hunting by far the biggest sporting tragedy for me was the death of ayrton senna. i suppose now i realise the high probability of death in motor sport but this man was somehow more than just a great sportsman