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December 13, 2006
Cry It Out
The other night I started crying without warning. This is not something you want to do in front of the man you're seeing. Even if he is a kind man and just hugs you, I still don't recommend it.
It's finals, the stress. And also the fact that I'm going to be 30 in three weeks. And as the semester is ending, it reminds me, law school is ending. This dredges up all sorts of questions about what the heck I want from life.
So anyway, I believe there is only one cure for this kind of misdirected malaise: The Tearjerker.
Really? There is nothing better than a sad movie to just RELEASE all that angst. It's more than mental, it's the PHYSICAL sense of release. A good cry is the high colonic of emotional regulation. Only after, you don't want to eat a house; you just want to go to bed. And hug your cats.
Here are my Top 5 Tearjerkers, guaranteed to make me cry no matter how many times I've seen them:
1. Steel Magnolias. The funeral scene never fails to make me sob uncontrollably. And then laugh so hard: "HALF O' CHIQUAPIN PARISH'LL GIVE THEIR EYE-TEETH TO TAKE A WHACK O' OUISER!"
2. Sense and Sensibility. When Emma Thompson cries, I do.
3. Dead Poets Society. Duh. Also, when I first fell in love with Josh Charles.
4. My Sassy Girl. The Boy introduced me to this one. AMAZING.
5. Snow Falling on Cedars. I started crying in the first five minutes, AND NEVER STOPPED. Literally. 127 minutes of crying.
What are your top 5 tearjerkers?
Posted by jen at December 13, 2006 10:18 PM
Comments
i agree / the tearjerker is the only remedy / just get it all out.
hmmmm, what are mine? lemme think.
i cry a lot at 1) sommersby, 2) philadelphia, 3).... mind freeze / will be back later with 3, 4 and 5...
p.s. so my supposed josh charles "connection": his costar on sports night peter krause went to my college. i think we overlapped a year or more.
Posted by: carolyn at December 14, 2006 04:45 AM
I love tearjerkers to relieve stress. My favorites: 1) Patch Adams - I could not stop crying. I used a whole box of Kleenex 2)Being There 3)Sixteen Candles - The ending with Jake and the birthcake 4) The End of the Affair - Julianne Moore is amazing in this movie 5) The Notebook - I hope I have someone love me that much when I am old.
Posted by: Anne at December 14, 2006 05:56 AM
You can Add.. The Stepmom.. Love Actually ( always makes me cry in certian parts ) The Notebook, oh and if you like foreign films.. like I do.. Au Revoir Les Enfants..
Posted by: eLiZaBeTh at December 14, 2006 06:05 AM
"Rudy" makes me cry EVERY time.
Posted by: -R- at December 14, 2006 07:28 AM
There are not very many movies that can make me well up. Titanic (when Jack is frozen to the wooden raft thinging and Rose has to peel herself from him while saying hoarsely "I'll never let go, Jack, I'll never let go.")is the only one I can bring to mind right at this moment.
There are certain TV shows that make me all out bawl - every single one of the animal rescue/cop and emergency vet shows on Animal Planet. I get so upset I upset the 3 felines and they hover trying to get me back on track. I try not to watch them because they get me all stirred up, but when nothing is on, those shows tend to be on when I'm forced to channel surf.
There are even some frickin' commercials that inexplicably make me sniffle.
Posted by: Samantha at December 14, 2006 08:13 AM
Saving Private Ryan
Posted by: Joanna at December 14, 2006 08:37 AM
Hmm... I think that actually all of my cathartic tearjerkers are TV episodes, not movies. I'll have to think about this one (and maybe look at my DVD shelf).
Posted by: Gwen at December 14, 2006 11:24 AM
Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger made me bawl a river. Snoopy Come Home gets me every time. Il Postino. The Bicycle Thief.
The spontaneous crying reminds me of Broadcast News. How Holly Hunter would just have these intense crying sessions for like, a minute, and then go on with her day.
Posted by: Librarian Girl at December 14, 2006 11:54 AM
My major tearjerker is not a movie but a TV show - Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Man, that show gets me going every week.
Posted by: April at December 14, 2006 12:13 PM
good will hunting..."it's not your fault"
Posted by: Penny at December 14, 2006 01:44 PM
Amen to the Good Will Hunting line.
Hope Floats: several scenes, including when HC Jr talks to the little boy on the porch after the funeral and the scene right before/after that where the cheating husband says that he wants a divorce
Posted by: sernin at December 14, 2006 05:03 PM
Imitation of Life -- the end always gets me even though I know it's coming.
I'm sure there are some others but that is the one that I know that is guaranteed to make me cry.
Heck. The other day I was watching the final two episodes of "Dawson's Creek" on TBS. And you know, I had to cry once more when you realize that Jen is dying. Of course, that could have been PMS.
Posted by: Dagny at December 14, 2006 06:07 PM
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Dancer in the Dark, with Bjork is the biggest tear jerked I've ever seen!
Posted by: chinchilla at December 18, 2006 10:29 PM
Beaches, TorchSong Trilogy, Boys on the Side (had to sit in the theatre for several minutes after the credits ended because I was crying so hard), Steel Magnolias, The Crossing Guard (unexpected tearjerker).
but give me most any random episode of Little House on the Prairie and I'll well up.
Posted by: cant_talk_knitting at December 19, 2006 01:03 PM
oh i have to agree with dagny. the dawson's finale when jen is dying and she gives that speech into the videocamera for her daughter? that gets me every time!
Posted by: carolyn at December 19, 2006 02:09 PM
1) Terms of Endearment
2) Sense and Sensibility (laugh and cry at the same time when Eleanore breaks down)
3) Miracle on 34th St. (1947) every time Ed Gwenn starts speaking Dutch to the little orphan girl
4) Gladiator
5) Buffy Season 5, The Gift (not a movie I know)
Samantha I totally understand the animal rescue shows. My 2 kitties are very confused when I sit there crying my eyes out.
Posted by: Liz at December 20, 2006 06:44 AM
Beaches. Oh, God. When she realizes about how she has the same hands as her mother and it hits her.
That's when I lose it. From there on is crying until Better is singing on stage.
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