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Click play and grab a box of tissue. It's the infamously sob-inducing ending to 1989's "Field of Dreams."
How long can you make it until your eyes swell up? I never get past the final line from Shoeless Joe -- "No Ray, it was you" -- at the 1:13 mark.
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0:46.
When Dad/John takes off his catcher's mask and turns around. The tears begin then.
By the time they play catch, the mascara's running and I'm a mess.
Posted by: jane | March 25, 2008 at 03:57 PM
waterproof mascara... the savior of all women!
Just this short clip just brings tears to my eyes.
Posted by: specialkness | March 25, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Never felt the need to cry. Am I a broken shell of a man?
Posted by: Walter Cox | March 25, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Walter -- someone needs to check you for a heartbeat.
And yeah, I get a little gurgly when you see that it's his dad. But when Shoeless Joe finally explains the meaning of those two lines ... oh man, it's all over for me.
Posted by: Spears | March 25, 2008 at 04:54 PM
Never felt the need to cry. Am I a broken shell of a man?
well walter, my dad died of cancer in '88, so it has some significance when he asks to play a game of catch. i dont know about other guys, if its just a disconnect with their own fathers or, or death like mine that causes the crying. maybe a bad relationship or yearning to remember the good times. but for me its not just field of dreams, its anything about fathers and sons. frequency and the rookie are a few that bring waterworld, so to speak
Posted by: chad | March 25, 2008 at 05:19 PM
In my defense, I did cry like a little girl at the end of "Terms of Endearment" the first time I saw it.
Posted by: Walter Cox | March 25, 2008 at 11:23 PM