Wierdly, two religious stories. We are not a religious family, but my (tiny, NONreligious private) school used to go rent movies from the library. There was this animated film made from an Oscar Wilde story called "the Selfish Giant". Awww. Along the same lines, Aslan and Reepicheep and various other scenes in Chronicles of Narnia. Voyage of the Dawn Treader is mine and my husband's favorite of the books.

I'm pretty clearly Gen X, but it has ony rarely because of movies. Books were more often the cause of crying, but there were still a few movies that did it. My Grandma took me to see Song of the South, and I think we had to leave. It was the scene with the boy in the bull pasture. I don't remember the whole thing, only that it's really a close call to climb the fence and get out before the bull trampled or gored him.

I don't remember what year it was, but I think I was embarrassingly old to be sobbing at that scene in a real theater. I think I might have been 8 or 9.

I only remember one scene in a television show. Roots came out when I was 9 or 10, and the scene after Kunta Kinte/Toby got recaptured upset me a lot.

But books. Whew. Jack the dog in the Little House books. Charlotte in Charlotte's Web. Beth in Little Women. The Quaker lady in Witch of Blackbird Pond. Stuart Little. Cricket in Times Square. Secret of NIMH. And on. Heck, I think I even cried at certain scenes in the books of All Creatures Great and Small. More often than crying, I was crying with laughter. I'm looking at you, Book of Lists and Shrinklits. Also the Weans.