The saddest scene in this film is the ultimate sad scene of any film ever. It’s so sad that I remember hearing my parents watching this movie, and I listened from my bedroom and I cried really hard. I cried from just listening to the scene! It’s that good. And that sad. When Ricky Schroeder leans over the dead Champ and tells him to “Get up. Get up Champ. Let’s go home. Get up Champ.” NOOOOOO.

Obvious, I know. Everything about this movie is so good and so sad. Debra Winger is an acting angel in this. Her performance is one of the most real performances I have ever seen in my entire life. But the moment when she calls her sons in to say goodbye to them? Hell no. Or as Whitney Houston would say: Hell to the no. I can’t even type about it right now because it is so goddamn sad. I was not an adult or a mother when I first watched that scene and I turned into a puddle. I think if I watched that scene today I would die from a crying overdose.

Sally Field and I have a long history of crying together. I cried with her in Sybil, Norma Rae, and Steel Magnolias. I cried with her when she won her Oscar and was psyched everybody liked her. This movie is a weeper from top to bottom. Picture Danny Glover, Sally Field, and John Malkovich doing back-breaking work to save their farm. Now picture Malkovich as a blind guy. Now throw in a tornado. There is an amazing scene at the end where they are all in church together and Sally Field passes the communion to her dead husband and Danny Glover’s dead son. I think it was his son. I forget. But I remembered how sad the end was. Well, I didn’t remember, but then I saw it on YouTube and I cried again. I knew this movie was a humdinger.

Gene Hackman’s face is enough to make me melancholy. Throw in an underdog sports story and some beautiful cinematography and I am a goner. This film has so many lump-in-the-throat moments. Measuring the basketball court, Hackman’s locker room speeches, drunk Dennis Hopper in a hospital bed.

OK, this movie is not sad. It’s funny. It’s so stupid. I love this movie, even though it really doesn’t hold up and the actual plot is awful and doesn’t make any sense. But there is one scene in this movie that gets me every time. When Jim Carrey looks out the window and tells Jeff Daniels he’s “sick of being a nobody. Of having nobody.” Jim Carrey is a good actor if he can have that ridiculous haircut and those crazy teeth and still make me sad. A teeny real moment in a giant physical comedy. High potential to get misty.

In America has cute girls with Irish accents who are sisters in real life. The Pursuit of Happyness has cute Jaden Smith and Will Smith who are father and son in real life. The scene where Will Smith sleeps in the bathroom is so sad. The scene where Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton comfort their two daughters is so sad. It’s not a contest, but I feel like Will Smith wins. You should watch both of these movies because..SPOILER ALERT…everything turns out great in the end!

In America has cute girls with Irish accents who are sisters in real life. The Pursuit of Happyness has cute Jaden Smith and Will Smith who are father and son in real life. The scene where Will Smith sleeps in the bathroom is so sad. The scene where Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton comfort their two daughters is so sad. It’s not a contest, but I feel like Will Smith wins. You should watch both of these movies because..SPOILER ALERT…everything turns out great in the end!

Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) has been blowing Andie (Molly Ringwald) off. She calls him and he won’t pick up. This was before texting so you could still pretend you weren’t home when people were trying to reach you. Andie confronts him at the lockers. “What about Prom, Blaine?” Blaine tries to pull some bullshit and pretends he asked somebody else. “Say it, just say it, Blaine. You’re ashamed to be seen with me. You’re ashamed to go out with me.” I loved this scene, because I secretly believed I was like Andie. Born on the wrong side of the tracks. Creative, honest and completely misunderstood. Andrew McCarthy does a good job crying in this scene, and that helps with the overall sadness quotient. I love John Hughes. I miss John Hughes.

The final scene is this great film is incredibly sad. To watch McMurphy stumble to his bed after getting zapped is really hard to watch. Then we have to suffer through the Chief smothering him with a pillow. Which is followed by an amazing moment when the Chief pulls the zapping machine out of the ground, throws it through the window and escapes.

I am a sucker for films about brother/sister relationships. This is because I don’t see this theme explored often, and I have a brother I don’t get to see enough. I love the scene at the end of the movie when Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo sit at the bus stop and say goodbye to each other.