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Topic: Movies That Always Make You Laugh & Cry
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fayte.m
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
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posted December 26, 2007 10:05 PM
 
Name 3.Bicentennial Man
Secondhand Lions
Billy Elliot And a clip from Torchwood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEwZcqb6ow IP: Logged |
Node
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From: Crowded House
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posted December 27, 2007 10:34 AM
Ahhh that would be my favorite "chick flick" Steel Magnolias Stellar cast ~ Olympia Dukakas, Dolly Parton, Shirley McClain, Daryl Hannah...et all Always laugh, and the part that always makes me tear up is not when the Julia Roberts character dies because her body could not handle her giving birth. The part that gets me is the graveyard scene when Julia's' mother- Sally Field- yells with such great emotion about the unfairness of life. All of her hurt, and anger comes spewing out...it's great!  I probably botched the spelling on those names! #2 The Notebook, and #3 Moonstruck maybe...today that's what it is anyway...laughs IP: Logged |
Mirandee
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posted December 27, 2007 12:00 PM
My top three movies of all time that both made me laugh and cry would be:1.Beaches with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey 2. Steel Magnolias ( loved the relationship interchanges of Shirley McClain and Olympia Dukakas that movie ) 3. Terms of Endearment with Shirley McClain Jack Nicholson and Debra Winger
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fayte.m
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posted December 27, 2007 12:15 PM
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Peri
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posted December 27, 2007 12:59 PM
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sinderlou
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posted December 27, 2007 04:48 PM
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Mirandee
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posted December 27, 2007 05:35 PM
These two might fit better under the category of Dark Comedies ( where the premis may be offensive but done in a comedic way ) but they both made laugh and cry watching them:Raising Arizona Best line: (old man in bank during a robbery) “Now, what’s it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? ‘Cause if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m gonna be in motion.”  M*A*S*H the original movie Catch 22 is another one that both made me laugh and cry and sometimes just totally horrified me.
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ghanima81
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posted December 27, 2007 08:18 PM
Playing By Heart.... John Stewart makes all the funny parts really shine... Jay Mohr's part is sooooooo sad, as is Ryan Phillipe and Angelina Jolie's, but she still manages to crack me up with her curlers and retainer!50 First Dates... mostly laughing through that one. Especially the part when Lucy beats the heck out of Ula with a bat and he gets up and starts running and she's all cute and smiling at Henry, then screams ''Yeah, you better run!!'' and turns back to Henry and giggles. Priceless. Princess Bride... ''Anybody want a peanut?''
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Planet_Soul
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From: The Universe
Registered: May 2005
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posted December 27, 2007 09:58 PM
Forrest GumpForrest to Jenny ~"I'm not a very smart man, but I DO know what love is Jenny!"~ IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
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posted December 28, 2007 12:36 AM
Ok, I finally have at least two.- Life is Beautiful
- Dead Poets Society Romantic comedies often have the laugh/cry effect on me, like Stranger Than Fiction when he shows up with the clever box of flours (<- spelled correctly  ). Harold Crick: [Runs to Ana the baker with a box of 10 paper bags in it] I'm glad I caught you. I wanted to give you these
Ana Pascal: Wait, you can give presents, but not receive them? That sounds awfully inconsistent, Mr. Crick.
Harold Crick: Yes, but...
Ana Pascal: Wait, I know, I'll purchase them! Yeah, I'll purchase them.
[Reaches into her bag to grab her wallet]
Harold Crick: No, no, no, no.
Ana Pascal: [With wallet in hand, stops to actually look at the box] What are they?
Harold Crick: [quietly] Flours.
Ana Pascal: What?
Harold Crick: I brought you flours.
Ana Pascal: [See the sweetness of the gesture, then realizing he's carried 10 bags of flours] Wait, you carried them all the way here?
Harold Crick: Miss Pascal, I've been odd. I know I've been odd, and I know that there are many forces at work telling me to bring these down here to you, but I brought these for you because... I want you.
Ana Pascal: [a bit taken aback, and ready to be really offended] Excuse me?
Harold Crick: I want you.
Ana Pascal: You want me?
Harold Crick: In no uncertain terms.
Ana Pascal: [realizing that he's really not being a creep and just a guy who's not used to saying what he feels] But isn't there some... I don't [know] rule about fraternization...
Harold Crick: Auditor / Auditee protocols, yes, but I don't care.
Ana Pascal: Why not?
Harold Crick: Because I want you.
Ana Pascal: [Contemplates him for a second, and looks back at the box] Can you carry those a little bit further.
Harold Crick: Okay. IP: Logged |
Node
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From: Crowded House
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted December 28, 2007 09:02 AM
Re- The Notebook~ Gena Rowlands, James Gardner, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams- from a book by Nicholas Sparks. What is personally poignant to me about this movie is that my brother bought it for me. He traveled several states to come and help me with some family business. He said: " You never ask for help, you need help with this...so here I am"  We were in a store and he asked me if I had ever seen The Notebook [I hadn't] He went over and bought a copy. Gave it to me. That night, we watched it together. At the end of the movie, tears were leaking out of his eyes. I felt very humbled, and touched like you would not believe. If you are not familiar with it, it is about love. Love found, lost, renewed, then...well if I tell you any more I will give it away as it has a surprise ending. Noah & Allie are played by 2 sets of actors. Young [1940] and old, the present.Young Allie: You arrogant son of a ***** .
Young Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Young Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Young Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a ***** and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
Young Allie: So what?
Young Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.
Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?
Young Allie: It's not that simple.
Young Noah: What... do... you... want? Whaddaya want? Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. ps- My brother is an Air sign. For all the Air sign basher's out there that say Air signs are not in touch with emotions---I say phooey!
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fayte.m
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted December 28, 2007 11:33 AM
Thinking of my choices again,
Bicentennial Man
Secondhand Lions
Billy Elliot
Torchwood...(the kiss scene, Capt. Jack)
and adding to the movies that make me ALWAYS laugh AND cry uncontrollably...(some crying for sadness, some for joy) I try to hold back but fail even after 20 some watchings of each one.....
my choices are ones that make me do all three!
Enemy Mine
The Professional
Space Cowboys
V for Vendetta
Medicine Man (Sean Connery)
The Postman
Field of Dreams
Meet Joe Black
Goodwill Hunting
Patch AdamsFeel free to name more!
I am looking at what makes other folks laugh AND cry in individual movies.
A total laughing one and a total crying one...
are not the same as ones that make folks cry AND laugh.
That crying can be for sadness or joy. The laughter can be for joy, or smirky, or wry, or triumphant, or a mere chuckle, a smile.
The point being...you cannot stop from crying and laughing. You cannot keep it in. IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted December 28, 2007 11:41 AM
By the way folks....
Thanks for posting and giving me the names of more movies I have yet to see! And great replies from you all! 
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Planet_Soul
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From: The Universe
Registered: May 2005
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posted December 28, 2007 09:16 PM
The Notebook is one of my favorite movies of all time. Another movie that makes me cry is The Shawshank Redemption.IP: Logged |
aquaspryt69
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From: Arizona
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posted December 29, 2007 07:30 AM
1. Anne of Green Gables2. Patch Adams 3. Lonesome Dove IP: Logged |
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