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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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.
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tcattani — 15 years ago(January 05, 2011 03:28 AM)
I took my now wife to this movie when we first began dating in 1979 in our late teens. I was sure I did a good job maning up, but I suspect I failed miserably. Nobody gets that much dust in their eyes! Anyway, she was a trooper and let me pretend.
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lakingsnake — 14 years ago(October 25, 2011 01:35 PM)
That's hysterical tcattani! Dust helps excuse the tears, but how do you account for the whimpering which is what I did?
In 41 years, I've never cried over a movie except this one.
The whole family was watching it on the TV when I was about 10 and like you, I did my best to be a man and hold back but emotions got the best of me. The room was quiet when the sniffling started, then came the tears and I knew I was a goner.
Once the tears started rolling, I unleashed uncontrollable sobbing to the point of barely being able to catch a breath. I cried so hard, I gave myself a nosebleed, which I was prone to anyway.
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rena165129 — 11 years ago(February 10, 2015 10:02 AM)
I cried the first time I watched this movie (I was about 10)and just recently I watched the ending on youtube and started bawling
Ricky Schroeder did such an amazing job in this movie.
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RothmanMax — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 03:30 AM)
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