[polkadotghost]

Hi there,

I work with emotionally disturbed and violent kids in a treatment home. One of our teens has difficulty expressing saddness so her therapist suggested getting her to watch some sad movies. So my question is:
What is the saddest movie you have ever seen??

My ideas were:
What Dreams May Come
Old Yeller (not sure she'd be interested in that one)
Thanx
April

[mrsrodger]

What about Good Will Hunting? It's not the saddest movie but it is about a troubled young man who has difficulty expressing his feelings and after working with his therapist has a breakthrough at the end. (that's the sad part) Instead of making the kid very sad this movie might show them that it's ok to express their feelings.
Good luck to you!

[BrandyHagz]

Steel Magnolias was a sad one for me…

[ajjhmf]

What about Dead Poets Society? I remember it being very sad when I was in HS.

[AdrienneG]

Awakening with Robert DeNiro
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Project X
Dumbo and Bambi (Why Disney made those movies for children beats me!)
Shawshank Redemption
White Oleander
Antwone Fisher

[Lovebug]

Beaches

--Renee

[echaos]

9 1/2 weeks
My Life
Steel Magnolias
A walk in the clouds
Lorenzo's Oil
Dying Young
Schindler's list
Saving Private Ryan
titanic
Beaches
To Kill a Mockingbird
Terms of Endearment
Sophies' Choice
Dumbo
My girl
Born Free
I am Sam
The Green Mile

[quiescentfury]

Beaches
Stepmom
Steel Magnolias
Old Yeller
Philidelphia

There was this movie I saw last year, It was about three sisters. One died and left her kids to the young irresponsible sister. The older non fun responsible sister was upset that the kids were not left to her. I forget the name, but it was sooooooo sad.

Wow Looking back at everyone's list I remeber so many of those movies and many are my favorites.

[Lovebug]

Yes, Stepmom!!!

Most Disney movies make me cry....but I am a total sap anyway.

--Renee

[echaos]

Joy Luck Club!

[echaos]

I would like to stand corrected:

91/2 weeks is apparently about sex..... and only "sad" as it's a badly made movie.

The "sad" movie I was thinking about is Six weeks, about a little girl dying of leukemia.

Ooopps!

[quiescentfury]

I remember the sister movie now - Sister Helen


Tuesday with Maury
Neverland
The Notebook
Message in a bottle

[heartened]

I would be looking for non-threatening tear-jerkers, not necessarily "sad" movies. I think that if she knows it's supposed to make her cry, she is likely to keep her walls tightly built. I would be shooting for movies which build emotions up throughout them. Movies which cause the viewer to become emotionally invested in the characters and outcome without being overtly "sad."

A few that come to mind -

Dragonheart (Sean Connery plays a noble dragon)
The Man In The Iron Mask
What Dreams May Come
The American President (Hard not to cry when Andrew Shepard - Michael Douglas - gives his "My name is Andrew Shepard and I AM the President" speech)
At First Sight (Very cool old Val Kilmer movie)
Love Actually
Mr. Holland's Opus
Phenomenon
Pay It Forward

[mommieof2cuties]

Boy whatever one said is great! I would add most lifetime movies make you cry

God Bless,
Summer

[Bassette]

Beaches and Steel Magnolias gets me every time and I have seen them several times.


Others that get me everytime:
Love Story
Terms of Endearment
Boyz In Tha Hood
Menace II Society
My Life
The Color Purple