10 Movies We Knew Would Make Us Cry That We Saw Anyway

9. The Notebook

A spry, elderly man reads a love story to an elderly, female, Alzheimer's sufferer in an assisted living resort. The story he is reading is of fleeting love, heartbreak, deception, healing, and happy endings, which is full of enough happy and sad tears on its own. It is when the female patient comes to from her debilitation and remembers that the story she€™s being read is her story and the man reading it to her is her beloved husband that the real tears start to flow. Oh, but wait, she then slips back into her Alzheimer€™s and treats her husband like a mugger, which brings on more tears so that audience members aren€™t sure if they€™re crying because they are happy or crying because they are sad or crying because they don€™t ever want to end up like that. And, of course, the ending I can€™t even mention. I, stupidly, tried my hardest not to cry in the movie theater at this movie. I was seeing it with a group of girlfriends who had already seen it and I figured I would be the only one crying. I was mistaken. One glance to my left was all it took to see their glistening faces and I let out a gut-wrenching sob into my sweatshirt. Since then, I have made every boyfriend I watch The Notebook with promise to shoot me before I ever let Alzheimer€™s get the best of me. Oddly, they all eagerly agree.