okay sorry
I've always been wired for unfiltered truth, no matter who it offends.

Not everyone likes the same movies. I didn't think it was cheesy. I thought Jon Voight's character was very manly and real. A very dysfunctional little family in Billy and T.J. but very real. I understand when people go on message boards to talk about actors and movies they LIKE, but I never understand when they want to talk about movies and their stars that they DON'T like. Why waste your time and energy…?

and cheesy
I've always been wired for unfiltered truth, no matter who it offends.

Yes, this was SUCH a sad movie!

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I've always been wired for unfiltered truth, no matter who it offends.

The Saddest Movie in the World
How do you make someone cry for the sake of science?
The answer lies in a young Ricky Schroder.
Used in psychology laboratories when scientists want to make people sad.
In 1979, director Franco Zeffirelli remade a 1931 Oscar-winning film called
The Champ
, about a washed-up boxer trying to mount a comeback in the ring. Zeffirelli’s version got tepid reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website gives it only a 38% approval rating. But
The Champ
did succeed in launching the acting career of 9-year-old Ricky Schroder, who was cast as the son of the boxer.
At the movie’s climax, the boxer, played by Jon Voight, dies in front of his young son.
"Champ, wake up!"
sobs an inconsolable T.J., played by Schroder.
The performance would win him a Golden Globe Award.
It would also make a lasting contribution to science. The final scene of
The Champ
has become a must-see in psychology laboratories around the world when scientists want to make people sad.
The Champ
has been used in experiments to see if depressed people are more likely to cry than non-depressed people (they aren’t). It has helped determine whether people are more likely to spend money when they are sad (they are) and whether older people are more sensitive to grief than younger people (older people did report more sadness when they watched the scene). Dutch scientists used the scene when they studied the effect of sadness on people with binge eating disorders (sadness didn’t increase eating).
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-saddest-movie-in-the-world-33826787/
July 20, 2011
It's a longer article and a good read.
The Champ (1979) Crying Scenes

I would believe it. I remember this on tv when I was a kid, and I couldn't stop crying. It is definitely the saddest movie I have ever seen.

Two for me are the immitation of life and the plague dogs.

The saddest movie I've ever seen, by far, is Sex and the City 2. It utterly destroyed me.

The saddest movie I've ever seen, by far, is Grave of the Fireflies. It utterly destroyed me.

Where the Red Fern Grows!

your right i never stoped crying in the last 30 min also never cried like this in a long time also everytime i remember hatchi i feel like i want to cry again

'Watership Down' is another great film when your feeling the urge to have a really good cry.

I was in floods of tears at both hatchi and the champ.

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Have you seen the film yet? And what do you think of it now?

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Yeah i was coming here to post about this. I've never seen this film though.
I dont mind a movie that gets tears in an honest, truthful way, what i mind is OBVIOUS tearjerkers ENTIRELY designed from script to soundtrack to make its audience cry. (See I am Sam for example)
The ultimate most heart wrenching film remains Antarctica for me. Mind you, I haven't seen it sicne i was like 9. And i don't want to ever again. It was my introduction to the cocnept of movies being able to make you feel bad. I did NOT like the idea.
As a grown up I'd say hmm well it's gonna sound typically male but usually anything that has to do with father/son relationships (I remember the end of Big Fish). I love my dad but feel like a terribly unworthy son (and with reason) and this just gets me right there. Love stories always tend to be handled in too cheesy a way in movies to make a good impression. When I was younger it was different, now I'm too bitter for most of them.

I'm also a foreigner from the Philippines and everyone I know who has watched this has cried.

Yeah.

Yes, in particular "Detective Story." only because "Lonely" is separate. (DS) has held up spectacularly well. All in about 90 minutes. The production drives Douglas and "us" to the bitter end, whipping us both the entire way. Every time it seems as if "Jim" will get it right, he gets its wrong. He is filled with a rage that can only be stilled by his death.
And even though I know the path and it's end I love watching it again & again. Seeing someone pour his heart into his work and take the souls in the production with him every step of the way is what film is about.
Film. American film.

Speaking of Kirk Douglas, try watching the final minutes of Lonely Are The Brave (1962) and Detective Story (1951).

It has nothing to do with American audiences, I'm from Morocco and believe me, people know about
The Champ
.
I agree with the study's result, this is the saddest film ever, of course, anyone can come up with another film but the point is that
The Champ
is the most likely to make everybody weep at the end, men, women, kids my father told me that he recommended the film to some of his toughest friends, who never cried at any any film, but after watching
The Champ
, they were all bawling like little girls.
No one can resist to the final scene.
"Darth Vader is
scary and I
The God
father"