saddest movie ever

[moshquerade]

named saddest movie ever, "The Champ"
http://theweek.com/article/index/217652/the-champ-saddest-movie-ever

spoiler here, so if you don't want to see how the movie the Champ ends don't click the link. ricky shroeder looks about 6 years old here. the kid is a phenomenal actor, especially in this closing scene. i heard on some radio show today that this scene was tops for making people cry.

it's a 1979 movie in which "The Champ", Jon Voight, is trying to win custody of his kid, ricky shroeder, and he needs to make some money in order to do so. So he goes back to boxing, which he had retired from, and he ends up dying after a fight.
this is the closing scene. 🙁

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

 

[Ichinisan]

Your synopsis reminds me of

Spoiler

The Wrestler

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[ProfJohn]

Wow.... I bet you are fun at a party...

 

[vshah]

I remember crying a ton when I first saw that movie

real tears, not like those I cried during the little mermaid and Independence Day.

 

[moshquerade]

Wow.... I bet you are fun at a party...

who me?

why yes, yes i am.

 

[Krynj]

At first I was like "huh?"

Then I was like "Oh, thread renamed."

 

[Blackjack200]

Jon Voight playing a boxer? Sounds pretty sad to me.

 

[moshquerade]

I remember crying a ton when I first saw that movie

real tears, not like those I cried during the little mermaid and Independence Day.

i never saw it... will now probably

 

[Krynj]

Also. I see your "saddest movie ever" and raise you this:

Dear Zachary. And it's a true story/documentary.

 

[Perknose]

Lol, all I could think of when I saw the OP's title was, "Old Yeller."

 

[911paramedic]

Where the red fern grows, hands down.

 

[ElFenix]

Lol, all I could think of when I saw the OP's title was, "Old Yeller."

duh

Where the red fern grows, hands down.

never saw the movie. read the book, maybe the saddest i've ever read.

 

[datalink7]

duh



never saw the movie. read the book, maybe the saddest i've ever read.

Same. Never seen the movie, but the book made me cry. I think I was only 10 when I read it though.

 

[monkey333]

Same. Never seen the movie, but the book made me cry. I think I was only 10 when I read it though.

Get out of my head!

 

[ProfJohn]

Saddest movie experience ever...

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[Perknose]

My grandmother survived the original production. 😉

 

[Iron Woode]

The original Little Mermaid was pretty sad. I haven't seen that version since 1975 or so.

 

[Rudee]

Rose in the movie The Titanic was a self absorbed bitch. Not once when she was in the water laying across that piece of floating debris did she ask Jack to climb on with her. Didn't even suggest it. Just laid there hogging the whole think like a spoiled brat. 😉

 

[uclaLabrat]

who me?

why yes, yes i am.

I blame the tequila...

 

[FM2n]

Legends of the fall. SAD to the end. :-(

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[alkemyst]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies

Grave of the FireFlies is pretty sad.

 

[El Guaraguao]

 

[CZroe]

The original Little Mermaid was pretty sad. I haven't seen that version since 1975 or so.

Confused. The original Little Mermaid was not a movie. It was a Hans Christian Anderson story. Disney didn't shy away from the tragedy in one of his other stories when they made it into an animated short:
The Little Match Girl 🙁