The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud
Great films always have the ability to play on our emotions, they make us laugh, they make us angry, they make us scared and when they are really good they make us cry.
To celebrate the release of Zac Efron’s new film The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, which is released on October 8, we are taking a look at the The Top Five Weepiest Film of all Time.
Based on an acclaimed novel, "The Death and Life Of Charlie St. Cloud" is a romantic drama starring Zac Efron as a young man who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way.
In this emotionally charged story, he begins a romantic journey in which he embraces the dark realities of the past while discovering the transformative power of love.
The Notebook
The Notebook is an epic love story that spans a life time. The story is told by Noah (James Garner) to his wife Allie (Gena Rowlands) who suffers from Alzheimer’s and doesn’t recognise Noah or remember the life they shared.
Noah keeps telling the story in the hope that she will remember him even just for a moment. The story begins when the pair met with the young version of Noah (Ryan Gosling) who is a poor and passionate young man that falls in love with Allie (Rachel McAdams) a rich young woman.
He gives her a sense of freedom and the pair spend a magical summer together but are separated by their social differences and Allie’s disapproving mother.
Noah is heartbroken and slowly becomes a semi-recluse putting all his effort in-to building the house that Allie once dreamed of.
Years later the two meet up again and although Allie is engaged to be married there is a connection between them that cannot be denied.
I always say that The Notebook is the best romantic love story since Titanic. How could you not cry when the old version of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams dance in the nursing home after she finally realises that he is her husband and former lover?
When she starts losing her memory two minutes later it’s heartbreaking. By the time they die in each others’ arms at the end of the movie (shoot, did I ruin the ending?!), I am down a box of tissue…and a sleeve of my sweatshirt
P.S I love you
Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the rather dishy Gerry (Gerard Butler). But when the love of her life dies prematurely it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is Gerry, so it's a good thing he planned ahead.
Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself.
The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself".
In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You.
Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. If you haven’t already been sobbing throughout, you will be by the time the last letter comes....
My Girl
Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlour. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlour, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.
Vada is very strong willed and at times she can be quite stroppy so with all her focus on sabotaging her father’s relationship she often neglects her slightly dorky but absolutely adorable best friend Thomas J played by Macaulay Culkin.
Thomas J follows Vada around like a little puppy and although Vada doesn’t always show it she really cares for him. Thomas is allergic to pretty much everything and so when he suffers a fatal attack from a swarm of bees Vada is devastated. The fact that they are so young with such a sense of innocence compounds the weepy factor even more!
Ghost
Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered.
Sam finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he cannot be seen or heard by the living, and so he communicates with Molly through Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), a psychic who didn't even realise that her powers were real.
Besides the fact that Patrick Swayze is at his sexiest in this chick flick - who could ever forget the now infamous scene with the pottery wheel when Sam possessed the body of Oda Mae to reconnect with the love of his life.
Sam embraces Molly as they work the pottery wheel together, it’s an absolutely magical scene that’s augmented by the Righteous Brothers rendition of the classic love song Unchained Melody.
Titanic
After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game, American Jack Dawson (Leonardo De Caprio) spots the society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) who is on her way to Philadelphia to marry her rich snob fiancé Cal Hockley (Billy Zane).
Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at their first-class table where he suffers through the slights of his snobbish hosts.
In return, he spirits Rose off to third class for an evening of dancing, giving her the time of her life.
Deciding to forsake her intended future all together, Rose asks Jack, who has made his living making sketches on the streets of Paris, to draw her in the nude wearing the invaluable blue diamond Cal has given her.
Cal finds out and has Jack locked away. Soon after wards, the ship hits an iceberg and Rose must find Jack while both must run from Cal even as the ship sinks deeper into the freezing water.
I don’t believe anyone who says they never cried at all during this two and a half hour love story. I can’t seem to hold back the tears every time I see Jack shivering in the water telling Rose that she shouldn’t give up and that she will have plenty of babies and grow old.
By the time Rose realizes that Jack is dead, I’m sobbing and running from the room to grab tissues to wipe the dripping snot from my nose.
The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud is released 8th October.
Great films always have the ability to play on our emotions, they make us laugh, they make us angry, they make us scared and when they are really good they make us cry.
To celebrate the release of Zac Efron’s new film The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, which is released on October 8, we are taking a look at the The Top Five Weepiest Film of all Time.
Based on an acclaimed novel, "The Death and Life Of Charlie St. Cloud" is a romantic drama starring Zac Efron as a young man who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way.
In this emotionally charged story, he begins a romantic journey in which he embraces the dark realities of the past while discovering the transformative power of love.
The Notebook
The Notebook is an epic love story that spans a life time. The story is told by Noah (James Garner) to his wife Allie (Gena Rowlands) who suffers from Alzheimer’s and doesn’t recognise Noah or remember the life they shared.
Noah keeps telling the story in the hope that she will remember him even just for a moment. The story begins when the pair met with the young version of Noah (Ryan Gosling) who is a poor and passionate young man that falls in love with Allie (Rachel McAdams) a rich young woman.
He gives her a sense of freedom and the pair spend a magical summer together but are separated by their social differences and Allie’s disapproving mother.
Noah is heartbroken and slowly becomes a semi-recluse putting all his effort in-to building the house that Allie once dreamed of.
Years later the two meet up again and although Allie is engaged to be married there is a connection between them that cannot be denied.
I always say that The Notebook is the best romantic love story since Titanic. How could you not cry when the old version of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams dance in the nursing home after she finally realises that he is her husband and former lover?
When she starts losing her memory two minutes later it’s heartbreaking. By the time they die in each others’ arms at the end of the movie (shoot, did I ruin the ending?!), I am down a box of tissue…and a sleeve of my sweatshirt
P.S I love you
Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the rather dishy Gerry (Gerard Butler). But when the love of her life dies prematurely it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is Gerry, so it's a good thing he planned ahead.
Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself.
The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself".
In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You.
Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. If you haven’t already been sobbing throughout, you will be by the time the last letter comes....
My Girl
Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlour. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlour, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.
Vada is very strong willed and at times she can be quite stroppy so with all her focus on sabotaging her father’s relationship she often neglects her slightly dorky but absolutely adorable best friend Thomas J played by Macaulay Culkin.
Thomas J follows Vada around like a little puppy and although Vada doesn’t always show it she really cares for him. Thomas is allergic to pretty much everything and so when he suffers a fatal attack from a swarm of bees Vada is devastated. The fact that they are so young with such a sense of innocence compounds the weepy factor even more!
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