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20 Streaming Movies That Will Make You Cry
The Notebook, Fruitvale Station, and … Rookie of the Year? Hear us out …
If the phrase “based on a Nicholas Sparks novel” isn’t enough of a description for you, here’s a quick rundown of just some of the tear-inducing triggers found in this 1940s-set romance: young lovers of different social classes torn apart by disapproving parents; a pivotal secondary character killed in World War II; declarations of longing in the rain; a cute elderly couple dancing; a grand gesture featuring real estate; so, so many passionate kisses. It wasn’t his absentee dad who loved baseball, it was his mom, who mouths from the stands that he should “float it.” The look on Morton’s face, and the way the movie creates this private conversation between the two characters in the middle of this massive stadium, is totally affecting. You’ve heard the story: Practically broke and potentially going to prison after his uncle and business partner loses $20,000, George contemplates ending his life when an angel visits him and shows him, through flashback, just how valuable he is to society.
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