Crying in movies

The first time I cried in a movie was junior year in high school.  Unfortunately, I saw this movie in History class, Sergeant York.  Immediately after watching this movie, we watched Yankee Doodle Dandy, where I cried again.  Crying in school was not ideal, but luckily the lights were out and half the class was asleep.  Both were proud and patriotic movies, where I cried out of happiness (and both won their leading actors an Oscar).  The next movie I really cried in was of a similar tone, A Few Good Men.  Are you seeing the theme for my future?  I must have at the age of 17.

After all those (and a few others along the way), the movie I cried the most in was a recent one…Stranger than Fiction.  As in the other movies, this was a happy cry.  This was one of best movies I have seen in years.  It may have gotten away from the patriotic military theme, but it caught another theme for me — I watched it on the plane. 

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