Movies have the great ability to invoke emotion. Be it happiness, sadness, anger, reflection…they can make you start to feel things you weren’t feeling before sitting down in the theater. Well get your tissue box’s ready as we focus on the water works. Here are three total tear-jerkers to watch!
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
I cried about this movie for 3 weeks. Seriously. Sometimes I still get misty-eyed when explaining it to friends. Set during World War II, The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas is a story as seen through the eyes of an 8-year-old German boy named Bruno. Bruno is the son of a high-ranking concentration camp official whose new secret friendship with a Shmuel, a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has shocking and dire consequences. (94 min., PG-13)
Watch the trailer: http://youtu.be/PxFol8HgYWM
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
This 1975 classic starring Jack Nicholson is one of only 3 movies ever to win all five major Academy Awards (Best picture, actor, actress, director and screenplay.) Set in a Oregon mental institution, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest covers the latest bid of incarceration for Mac, a rebel minded repeat criminal who is choosing to spend the remainder of his sentence at a mental institute thinking it will be easier than doing hard labor. He clashes with the oppressive style of head nurse, Nurse Ratched and tries to establish himself as the leader of the ward with tragic results. (133 mins., R)
Watch the trailer: http://youtu.be/NN1cCviBXmY
