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21 Crying Scenes In Movies That Felt So Real, You Can’t Convince Me They Weren't
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What are the chances of Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford ever doing a live read of the "Studio 60" pilot in my kitchen while I eat dinner? "For me, it’s Toni Colette in Hereditary. Those scenes haunt me. I forget I’m watching a movie. It feels like I’m watching something way too private, and like I shouldn’t be looking." You can watch one of her crying scenes here. "Not really full-on crying, but you can see tears coming out of her eyes as she opens up about her struggle with her image and loneliness to the point of quivering her words." "The fact that she didn't win an Oscar for that baffles me." "It was so well acted; it felt so real and raw. One of my favorite movies and scenes!" "The fingers inside the mouth! It's so specifically a kid thing to do while crying, she killed it." "He’s been falsely convicted of a crime, lost everything, and he’s meeting the love of his life for the first time in years. The enormity of it all hits him, very powerful." "When she starts crying during the big fight scene, and then her full breakdown after Will leaves. Incredible performance." "Those silent, gut-muscle sobs kill me more and more the older I get. She was absolutely pulverized." "For me, it’s always the silent tears from Mssr. Lapadite, when he realizes Hans Landa knows he is hiding the Dreyfuss family, and that he will have no choice but to give them up. I don’t even know the actor’s name, and Christoph Walz gets all the attention from that scene, but I find it devastating." "Thank you for pointing that out. Waltz is amazing, but Ménochet is waaaaay underrated; so underrated that most (non-French) people don’t even know his name. His performance is incredible." "This is my favourite scene of the whole movie. The music, the acting, the phenomenal wide shots of Rohan. Theoden perfectly encapsulated the pain of losing a child." "Drew Barrymore’s crying wasn’t even acting, she was genuinely devastated to lose E.T. — Spielberg shot the film chronologically so the kid actors grew to bond with and love E.T. just like their characters." "I've seen the movie at least 10 times, and I ugly cry each and every time they're preparing John for execution." "I love this scene because it has the most remarkable tonal whiplash, straight from gut-wrenching grief to absolutely hysterical laughter. 'Here, hit this! Go ahead, M’Lynn! Slap her!' "I don't think a lot of people agree with me on this one, but it reminded me so much of my parents fighting and making each other cry." "Agnes Shakespeare on the death of her son Hamnet." "I’ve teared up and had to wipe my eyes in plenty of movies, but I UGLY cried in Hamnet. Full sobs. Jessie Buckley was transcendent, and Noah Jupe also deserves a ton of praise for that final scene of the movie." "Damn, her and Streep in that scene... all the subtext, all the things they didn't really have the vocabulary for... It is a 7-minute masterclass in how to kill a scene." "His snotty crying at his dead family's feet was pretty convincing." "'Snot en trane julle' (a local expression from where I grew up, emphasising this exact sort of crying to express how much that person is hurting)." "The car scene in The Sixth Sense with Toni Collette. Quiet, messy, and it hits hard." "This one for me, because it felt so damn real. I start tearing up too because I can feel the character's grief." "The scene in the bar where George Bailey prays to god for help. Stewart was overcome with emotion and cried. It was his first acting role after serving as a pilot in WWII." "For me, it's the scene where he comes home and is quietly crying while hugging his youngest child. Like I fully believe that I am seeing a man who is thinking, 'I don't want to lose my children. I don't want to lose my wife and my family and my home.'" "The scene at the beginning of Midsommar. And it's even more impactful after hearing her talk about it on Louis Theroux’s podcast and how much emotional damage it did to her, leading to a lot of therapy and her completely changing her practice. There’s a reason it seems so raw; it’s because she was forcing herself to live through something incredibly horrible as if it were real." "Such a heart-wrencher. 'Fucking poser!' makes me sob every time. Few movies will make me cry every time I watch them; this is one." "Seeing her crying in his closet haunts me." "I sob for joy every damn time right along with her." Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.