Jim: Well, if it's any consolation, I love you. And if this guy can't see in you all the beautiful and wonderful things that I see, then he's got the problem.
Samantha: I know. It just hurts.
Jim: That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else.
Samantha: But if I were Ginny, I'd have this guy crawling on his knees.
Jim: Well, let me tell you something about Ginny. Now, I love her as much as I love you. But she's a different person. Sometimes I worry about her. When you're given things kind of easily, you don't always appreciate them. With you, I'm not worried. When it happens to you, Samantha, it'll be forever.
Thanks, Jim. Your late-night speech got me through many a crush and made me okay with being a late-bloomer because I believed the wait was in exchange for the lasting love I would one day find being somehow sweeter.*
Your turn.
*Only my Jake Ryan didn't show up the next day, and I'm still waiting. Not that I'm bitter.
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Okay, this is cheating a bit, but the moment that affected me most was from Field of Dreams.
I have watched this movie countless times and when Ray says to his father, “Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?”, I still choke up.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/12473/field-of-dreams-ray-and-his-dad-play-catch
I always wished my dad would understand the importance of just playing. It never happened – my dad was all work, no play. That’s why I love when Mr. Banks realizes in MARY POPPINS just how delightful his children are as he’s getting fired. He gets more and more tickled by the joke, “There’s this fellow with a wooden leg named Smith.” And it occurs to him how important spoonfuls of sugar and flying kites are to a child’s world. I remember thinking, at age 9, “wow, what a dad.”
The end of Father of the Bride when the daughter calls her dad (Steve Martin) on her way to her honeymoon to thank him for being a great dad, paying for the wedding, etc. So sweet!! My other favorite is the dad in Juno after she’s had the baby and is crying in the hospital and he tells her than one day she’ll be back when it’s really her time. He was awesome.
1. The most touching (translation: tear-jerking) scenes in “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” are those that showed father-son interactions between Jean-Do and his children at the beach on Father’s Day. And there were bonding moments between Jean-Do and his own father, played by the magnificent Max Von Sydow.
2. Underlying this main story of “Departures” is the young man’s repressed anger and resentment for the father who had abandoned him when he was only 6 years old. He does not even have a face to go with his few memories with his dad. In the climactic scenes at the end of the movie, we witness how this shattered relationship comes full circle. Needless to say, these are very highly emotional (translation again: tear-jerking) scenes.
King Triton, Ariel’s dad in the Little Mermaid. Because aside from the fins, that’s my own dad: an authoritarian with a soft heart — and me, still with my brat moments. On Ariel’s wedding day: “I love you, Daddy.” Cue the tears.
I think the first awesome movie dad I can think of is the dad in Juno. He was so funny about everything but you could tell that he loved his daughter no matter what. I love the scene where he is at the kitchen table and they talk about her dating in “her condition”…sweet and too funny!
best dad momentet ever = steve martin in father of the bride. Basically the whole movie but especially when him and his daughter are playing basketball and he imagines her as a little girl. so cute. gives me chills. love steve martin
There is not a chick flick made that makes me cry. But, just thinking about the scene in Fields of Dreams…
Give me a minute.
Totally agree on the 16 candles dad-all time fave-have to mention the dad in Bend it Like Beckham, Billy Elliot and oh, Jerry Orbach as the dad in Dirty Dancing-tear up every time
Field of Dreams, hands down, the best, but a close second is the scene at the end of Pursuit of Happyness, after ALL that Will Smith has gone through and he and his son are in the homeless shelter and his little boy looks at him and says, “You’re a good papa”. Oh boy….it hits you right in the gut esp after the affecting scenes previous and you have seen such love and such despair from Will’s character. Even more poignant perhaps knowing its Will’s own child.
In the movie The Natural, when Robert Redford sees his son in the stands for the 1st time, and then hits a home run … that one always gives me goosebumps.
For me, “What A Girl Wants.” My parents got divorced when I was 2 and my father never bothered to be a part of my life. The part in that movie with Amanda Bynes’ character wanting to dance with her father at her wedding and then later when Colin Firth shows up to do so…I cried. I was married last November and sadly, I did not have a father-daughter dance.
Two of my favorite Dad scenes involve Alan Arkin. I love the scene in “Little Miss Sunshine” after Richard finds out that his book deal is off and his dad comforts him in the best possible way a father ever could. I also loved the ending of “Sunshine Cleaning” when Joe saves Rose’s business.
Last scene of Field of Dreams. Making grown men cry since 1989.
Pretty much all of Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel as his son. Especially when Frank saves his son at the end of the movie and we find out that this means Frank was saved, too. Great, underrated film!