Reading all of your comments make me cry! Ricky Schroeder was so believable. His, "I want Champ!" When the older man

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seancharman — 14 years ago(September 19, 2011 06:41 PM)

I have seen this film about 5 times and have blubbered like a baby each time.
I can only ever recall crying for one other film, Schindlers list.
Ricky watching his dad die was harrowing and I can see why that scene has been used to ilicit emotions by pyschologists.

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cairn6 — 18 years ago(August 25, 2007 10:53 PM)

Noit was not just you. I'm 37 and that movie absolutely destroys me every time I watch it. "Old Yeller" is a cake-walk compared to this film.

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OneWayFilms2000 — 18 years ago(September 13, 2007 07:51 PM)

38 year-old male. My dad drug me to the theaters to see this one. I cried like a baby. But not JUST at the end. When the champ was arrested and drug off by the police, I cried. When he slapped his son in jail, I cried. But when he was released and they met at the race track, I cried some more. And then, when that ending came, OH MY GOD..I thought I was already cried outTHAT WAS THE BURSTINBG OF THE WATER DAM FOR ME.
My wife refuses to watch it anymore, but every once in awhile, when I'm alone at home, I watch the DVD and cry all over again.

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agusgirardi — 18 years ago(October 23, 2007 07:46 AM)

I'm with your wifein that!!. I saw this movie when I was around 10 and never could watch it again. Today I caught the ending of the movie in TV (just finished seeing it) and cannot stop crying!!! OMG!!! Now I'm a mother of two and just thinking of one of my kids going through half of what little TJ went through breaks my heart. I just cannot watch it anymore. It really leaves me devastated!

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afghantzi — 18 years ago(October 30, 2007 11:06 AM)

Plain and simple
If this movie doesn't make you cry, you aren't human.

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highschoolkiller — 18 years ago(November 25, 2007 02:10 PM)

i just watched the movie this afternoon, i hadn't seen it in ages and i admit when the champ died i couldn't help crying.

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krismusicfan — 18 years ago(January 08, 2008 05:58 AM)

then I guess I am not human
I can think of 10 movies at least that are much sadder.
IMO RS overracts BIG TIME and that ruins it for me, especially the last scene.

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enbilal — 17 years ago(April 26, 2008 01:50 PM)

I cried when I first saw it when I was 5 or 6 y-o. Fast-forward 20 years later - I cried again.

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BethH24 — 17 years ago(May 11, 2008 01:38 PM)

I cried during the scene when tj sees Billy in jail and tj gets emotional about Billy telling him to live with his mum and Billy slaps him , and the scene with Billy and tj at the stadium, and the end scene where Billy dies and tj starts crying and keeps telling him to wake up.

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jimola — 17 years ago(July 14, 2008 03:49 PM)

i was about 10 when isaw it the first time and i cried my eyes out.
Now,20 years later i saw it again and my eyes are swollen by tears.
i love this movie.

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tenleygirl — 17 years ago(July 30, 2008 06:38 PM)

I did cry, but then I was 9 when I saw this. I haven't seen it since. My parents took me to see it when it came out in the theaters.
Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you. Not anymore.
~Saw~

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rodvince — 17 years ago(September 02, 2008 07:02 AM)

I first saw it on TV in '93 Fathers Day. I admit that I'm not really very close to my father but I must have dropped a tear or two when the Champ bought his son a horse. Then tears went down at the end of the movie.

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powerfulupton — 17 years ago(November 28, 2008 01:51 PM)

you big girls blouse lol.

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efa-3 — 16 years ago(June 06, 2009 07:50 AM)

I don't remember that many occasions that I cried, movie or otherwise, but there is something about that last scene that just makes me bawling my heart out.

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Abominatrix — 16 years ago(December 22, 2009 04:52 PM)

I'd love to be able to join in with the big greetfest you're all having, but it didn't move me at all, I felt a bit sad for him, but that's it.
I did find it hysterical though that grown men around me were actually crying, maybe that's what tempered my emotion. I could also be suffering from some sort of autism though, that has been mentioned before now.

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ginda2000 — 16 years ago(December 27, 2009 07:19 PM)

I have to say you are the first person I have ever encountered who wasn't moved to tears by this film. I have seen it about six or seven times since I first viewed it (when I was 10 I'm now 35) and everytime I have tears streaming down my face by the end.
I have never known anyone not watch it and be (for want of a better word) utterly disturbed by it. Without a doubt it's Ricky Schroder's performance throughout the whole picture. You just want to cry at what a dear child he is and how much he loves his flawed father. By the end of the picture you can literally see his heart breaking in front of you and its too much. I don't think I have ever seen another film which upsets me so much.

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Barlley — 16 years ago(April 01, 2010 12:35 PM)

What a movie! I haven't seen a bigger tear-jerker than The Champ. Maybe dead poets society, but the champ what a movie! What's up with the 6.1 rating though? I cried a huge bucket during the end scene "I want Champ". During different parts in the movie I cried too..like you all say it's the biggest tearjerker ever made.

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Tony-166 — 15 years ago(December 31, 2010 05:04 AM)

I love tearjerkers, but this is one film I just cannot watch again. It is just too much. It is a truely great film but even thinking about that ending is making me well up again.
I saw this in the theatre as an adult. God knows what would have happened to me if I had been a kid !!