This morning, we were (not a bit) surprised to find out that watching a film that makes you cry also makes you reach for comfort food. Rather than talk about our comfort food of choice – always a popular topic of conversation on the show – we began to talk about films that make you cry. Certain scenes from certain films made certain members (coughMaireadandPaulacough) bawl in work while getting some audio to play out – and our listeners chipped in with their weepy of choice. Top 5 are below!
My Sister’s Keeper – pure heartbreak
Ian, please stop playing the sad bits - I have no chocolate in the house! Shannon
ET! Argh!
Ian I'm bawling !!! Stepmom waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Ah Ian, my streaming head cold was not helped by listening to that clip from Stepmom, I bawl like a child every time but the lunatic that I am, I watch it repeatedly. Debbie from the Sickbed.
A movie from years back called After The Promise... true story, Mark Harmon stars, gut wrenchingly sad! Cried for weeks after it. Leslie from Navan
The Green Mile. When Mr Jingles the mouse dies. Colum and Ger in Limerick
The only film I cried at was Cool Runnings, after they crashed and carried the bobsleigh over the line. It cut me deep. Finbarr in Cork
First seven minutes of Pixar's Up - saddest prologue EVER!! :'(
Who will look after my children? The worst/best tear jerker ever'
Consider myself a stoic man when it comes to movies. Only cried twice, and that's at Of Mice and Men and the animated Animal Farm when they took Boxer away to the glue factory. Eugene Tallaght
My sister bawled her eyes out at Bambi. Not when his mum was shot but when he slipped on the ice!!!! She thought he'd be so hurt!!!! Ha ha ha so cute!!!! Adrienne
Haitchi is a true story – a statue of the dog was built at the train station in Tokyo
You're only talking about these films and I've munched half my packed lunch on drive to work.
Iano, tears: When Bruce Willis blew himself up at the end of Armageddon. Dave in Skibbereen
Ah Ian, that scene from Love Actually to Joni Mitchell song - totally heartbreaking! Caroline
Hi Ian! Gladiator always gets me at the end when he dies, and she turns to the crowd and says something like he was your leader treat him like one. Then the fancy music starts. Graham
Saddest ever, My Girl, when Macaulay Culkin dies, Martin Dublin.
Well Ian, I cried at Marley and Me ! Not sure was it because the dog died or that the film was so shite! Mike in Clare
Hi Ian, the film that makes me cry is Field of Dreams and the second last Harry Potter film when Dobby the Elf dies. Any film with animals like Black Beauty or Homeward Bound will do it as well. Shannon
The end of It’s a Wonderful Life when they all arrive with money to help George Bailey out has me bawling. Not really sad but bursts my eye bladder every time. Charlie.
End of Toy Story 3! I was in bits beside my pal Caitriona. End of childhood - fierce emotional so we were,
Hi Ian - I'm a big softy sentimentalist when it comes to the end of Cinema Paradiso! Cheers, Vince
The Notebook gets me every time. When she remembers him and they snuggle up on the bed. Grainne, Kildare
Morning Ian. I think such a moment arose in Cast Away when Wilson the football fell off the raft and Tom Hanks starting weeping loudly. Diarmaid Ranelagh
HOWEVER, here are the Top 5 SADDEST films, as voted for by the listeners of The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show:
5 – Field of Dreams – when he plays ball with his Dad
4 – The ending of Marley & Me when Marley goes to doggy heaven.
3 – The beginning of the movie ‘Up’
2 – The Love Actually scene with Emma Thompson
1 – The Champ "don't die, Champ!"
