It’s been my favorite movie since it first came out - my mom actually gave me the videocassette of the movie so I could watch it at home. No longer have a VCR or DVD player so I can’t watch it as often as I used to! I may have to break down and buy it on Prime.
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Same for me. I remember buying a few copies of the video cassette (I am sure some CCers are asking what in tarnation that is) for gifts to friends for Xmas in the early 1990s.
Agreed, that Emma Thompson scene, alone in the bedroom, and then she pulls herself together and is the “cheerful mum.” Heartbreaking.
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Homeward Bound – I’d cry every time we watched it (and we did, a lot, when the kids were young), when Sassy and Chance come into the yard, and you wait, and wait, and Peter says “he was just too old.” And then, the fountain of tears started in our house!
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Duckie miming “Try a Little Tenderness” in Pretty in Pink:
The teacup falling from Gene Tierney’s hand as she dies and Rex Harrison is there to walk into eternity with her at the end of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir:
And, of course, Tom Cruise jamming to Bob Seger in Risky Business:
Oh, and any scene with Robert Redford and Paul Newman together. Take your pick.
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Ok we are going to watch it tonight. 
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Any time things aren’t going well and someone asks how are we doing, I respond “Looks like University of Illinois.”
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Fab movie. I’m old enough to have watched this when it came out. Very happy D loved it too.
“Try a Little Tenderness”…what a GREAT song courtesy of the very great Otis Redding. Does anyone remember the incredible movie “The Commitments” out of Ireland in the early 1990s? This song has a prominent role in the movie. It too ranks as a fine moment in cinematic history:
ETA: Andrew Strong, the lead singer, was something like 16 or 17 yo when this was filmed/recorded. Simply beyond belief for this aspect alone.
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Yes! The Commitments is one of my all time favorites. It’s just brilliant!
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For me, it has to be the last scene in An American in Paris. The guy takes out a chewing gum from his mouth and sticks it under the railings on the balcony before he collapses to die. The most mundane act at the most momentous occasion.
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“Rosebud” Citizen Kane
“I coulda been a contender”. On the Waterfront
The final scene in Brief Encounter in the train station cafe and then a cut to Laura with her husband.
Jimmy Stewart again. The final scene of It’s a Wonderful Life. “A toast to my big brother George- the richest man in town.”
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Hard to not get tears every time we watch that movie. Emma Thompson is perfect in that scene alone in the bedroom (all of them, really).
So many of my favorites have already been mentioned. Lots of baseball movie scenes, especially Field of Dreams and The Natural.
“God, I love baseball”
“Pick me out a winner, Bobby”
The Natural
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The whole of 1917. Riveting.
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All of these. The only one I’ve never understood is Casablanca’s “Here’s looking at you kid” No connection for me.
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Best sports movie ever; A League of Their Own.
Best scene? No crying in baseball.
THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! - YouTube
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A League of Their Own will be a tv series on Amazon Prime starting in August. I did enjoy the movie.
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Speaking of sports movies, great scene from Bull Durham:
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Back to Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones’ “People will come” speech:
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The big reveal in “The Empire Strikes Back”:
ETA: Just noticed this is a repeat. Sorry.
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The “I’m just a girl” scene, by Julia Roberts, in Notting Hill:
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