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!
It’s not a father-son movie…more a father-figure and son movie. In Cinema Paradiso Alfredo promises a young Salvatore to save all the edited kissing scenes from the movies. At the end, after Alfredo’s death, Salvatore (now a big-time producer) get a film reel the old man left for him…it’s got all the kissing scenes…he sits in the screening room watching them and you can tell he understands how much Alfredo loved him…it gets me every time…the Ennio Morricone score doesn’t hurt either…just watch it…seriously!
Um, how about Big Fish? Billy Crudup carrying his dad into the water during the fantasy death sequence, with all of the father’s old friends there to say goodbye – so touching. And the best: Towards the end of Mrs. Doubtfire, when Robin Williams is in the courtroom begging for custody, and he says something along the lines of his kids “are like breathing”. Williams’ desperate face and shaky voice has gotten me every time since I was about six years old!
i love the end scenes in “jingle all the way” with arnold swarchsnegger and jake lloyd. arnold’s character realizes that his family should come first, and jake’s character realizes that he doesn’t need turbo man, just his dad. also like the scenes in “elf” with james caan and will ferrell towards the end. “mulan” also makes me cry every time, too, because mulan joined to save her dad.
i do believe that ‘john q’ has the most touching father/child moments. the extremes a father would go to in order to keep his son alive. gets me every time.
Not a fan of Tom Cruise but mine are from two of his movies with both his fathers comforting him. First was All The Right Moves when he had Craig T. Nelson as a supportive father. The other is Born on the 4th of July – his dad sees him in a wheelchair for the first time. The dad put his hand on his son’s shoulder (I think). My memory may be not be reliable but I remember crying at both movies cuz my father was a distant one.
The last seen in “Ordinary People” when Conrad asks if his father if his mother left because of him and Donald Sutherland tells him no.
The last scene in Field of Dreams of course is THE best. But there’s a scene in the movie “Dad” when Ted Danson is upset with how his dad is been treated in the hospital and he picks him up in his arms and carries him out. Jack Lemmon looked so much like my dad at the end of his life in that scene that I totally lost it and sat in theater sobbing.
Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), To Kill a Mockingbird: Any scene with Atticus and Scout (on the porch, at bedtime with the pocket watch, etc.). Also, in the courtroom after the trial, when Reverend Sykes tells Scout, “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’”
Frequency and John Q are definitely the best!
Every witty barb back-and-forth between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”
Sounds silly, but the end of The Little Mermaid, when she has to say goodbye to her dad… “I love you, Daddy.” Tears! Every time!
Love Actually, when Liam Neeson’s character helps his stepson break past airport security to tell his sweetheart that he loves her. Neeson’s entire role in Love Actually proves that being a great dad has very little, if anything, to do with blood. Instead, it is about support, understanding, and above all, love.
I’ve always been moved by the “The Sound of Music” during which the Captain stops yelling at Maria long enough to hear his kids singing, and when he goes inside he’s so affected by their singing that he realizes how he’d been shutting them out for so long.
I also love the scene at the end of “In America” [SPOILERS!], when the youngest daughter tells her father to “Say goodbye to Frankie,” his deceased son, and he finally cries over his son.
Pretty much all of Father of the Bride. Nothing makes me tear up and want to call my Daddy quicker.
Pretty much all of Father of the Bride. Nothing makes me tear up and want to call my Daddy quicker.