It's A Wonderful Life - especially at the cinema in 1997 when I was drunk/sentimental and in tears pretty much from the opening scene to the closing credits.
Big - the ending: talk about "time regained"! Speaking of which:
The scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where Andy's a boy playing outside his childhood house. Suddenly the house ages and becomes a dilapidated ruin. It just chokes me up. The use of "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" at the end is a shameless bit of emotional blackmail that also works for me (see also Neil Young's "Philadelphia" at the end of Philadelphia).
Any film in which Billy Bob Thornton or Tommy Lee Jones hint at deep emotion beneath their gruff, deadpan exteriors (ie, every film they've ever made, including Bad Santa and Men in Black). Bill Murray also does a nice line in that type of thing.
Kingpin. Just so, so sad.Statistics: Posted by Mrs Ray Flicker — Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:14 am
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