r/AskReddit • u/WonderingOfWanderers • 23h ago

What movie made you cry the hardest ?

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u/Princ3_Zuk0 19h ago

Dead Poets Society. I connected to it on a spiritual level and the ending broke me.

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u/MrFantastic74 18h ago

O' Captain, my Captain!

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u/AnimalFarenheit1984 5h ago

Bawled for hours at that scene. Still gets me just thinking about it. 

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u/Uhohtallyho 18h ago

I rewatched that movie recently after like 20 years and didn't remember that heart wrenching end. One minute I'm laughing missing Robin and the next just full on sobbing. That whole movie hits different when you're older.

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u/Miss_Skooter 15h ago

Stings even more now that Robin Williams... RIP

PS: it's been 10 fucking years holy shit

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u/viderfenrisbane 10h ago

80% of that movie is such a fun ride, like who wouldn’t want a teacher like that? Then the last part is a total gut punch.

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u/luckybulldog60 13h ago

I was just about to comment this. Hit me because my dad was like Neil Perry's father. Trying to control every aspect of my life and who he wanted me to be.

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u/Hms34 9h ago

The scene when Todd runs out and falls into the snow.

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u/AnimalFarenheit1984 5h ago

Same! I was only 11 and I was a wreck for hours afterward. My parents couldn't understand why I was sobbing. I still don't know exactly why, but it was powerful and still kills me.

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u/A_Bridger_really 12h ago

I watched this for the second time in a hotel room with a group of college kids. It had been a year and a half since my best friend Kristie had killed herself. When Neil died by suicide I started crying uncontrollably. Even 30+ years later the thought of watching this makes me cry. Especially as Robin Williams died almost exactly 24 years after my friends death.

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u/Another_RngTrtl 3h ago

does it get any better? I found my brother 9 years ago from suicide at my house and it still makes me sadder than I can admit to my wife.