11 Deaths In Kids' Movies That Made You Want To Cry Like A Little Girl
9. Ellie - Up
OK, fine, there is one animated Disney film on this list. Despite being marketed as a quirky adventure involving flying a house to South America, Up is actually a painful journey watching an elderly man grieve for his dead wife. The first half hour of Up plays like a pro on our heartstrings. That first wordless montage chronicling Carl and Ellies beautiful romance play out into sorrow, disappointment, death, and isolation is one of the more harrowing sequences you could ever hope to see. The familiarity and the inevitability of the story is what makes it so hard to stomach, when Carl could easily be the grandfather that you ignore because you find the nursing home depressing. Further than that, Ellies death in Up is entirely unceremonious. It shows us the often avoided dark side of old age, and how when one of you dies theres just the slow and lonely wait for death. This unflinching exposé, accented by the cheerful music turning more melancholy, means that you find yourself sobbing uncontrollably before the films even got going. Though we never properly meet Ellie, her presence permeates the entire film and makes her death feel personally, epically tragic.
