Art is supposed to make you feel, but crying at the movies is a complicated identity issue. Some brag that not even the most devastating dog death can make them shed a tear, while others are unabashed movie bawlers. For all that posturing, though, it’s largely a matter of destiny: Get exposed to an excessively touching cartoon at an early age, and you’re a movie crier for life. For others, it happens later, but the grim tearjerker comes for us all.
For Redditor Fit-Worker9135, it was My Girl. “I am not the emotional type and have never cried during a movie,” they told r/Movies. “Maybe I haven’t watched a film that could evoke such an emotional response from me, (but) I’m still heartbroken thinking about Vada breaking down at Thomas J’s funeral. That was beautiful … I am literally trying to stop myself from crying right now.”
They “want(ed) more” because “this was an amazing experience for me,” so they asked for the “first time you cried during a movie?” and Reddit sobbed right back at them.
Phenomenon
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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The NeverEnding Story
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Schindler’s List
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Manchester By the Sea
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Lethal Weapon 2
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Bambi
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Marley and Me
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
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The Green Mile
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The Land Before Time
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
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The Transformers: The Movie
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Armageddon
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The Lion King
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Titanic
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Little Miss Sunshine
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Good Will Hunting
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Dead Poets Society
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Cast Away
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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