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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deeksmith007 — 18 years ago(June 10, 2007 09:44 AM)
i watched the champ when i was about 9 and was in tears at the end,im now 28 and watched it last night,i forgot how good the acting was,young ricky should have got an oscar for that performance.he had me in tears again.the scene when the champ is in the cells and tells him to go away and says the kid is a pain in the ass,and t.j is begging the champ that he wants to stay with him.christ i was filling up with tears.best and most sincere tear jerker ever
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kev-corney — 18 years ago(August 15, 2007 01:49 PM)
The Champ was TCM on Wednesday 15th Aug 2007 i watched it again many years after the last time i saw it. Being a thirty year old male i am not ashamed to admit i shed more tears. My parents always remind me of how i used to cry as kid whilst watching this film and i thought i'd surely manage to hold it together but no
The part when T,J says " Champ, Champ wake up! Don't die champ" gets me every time.
A timeless classic that i'm sure no matter how many times i watch it i will shed a tear or two
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winepooh96 — 18 years ago(August 24, 2007 06:49 PM)
I'm 30 and I just watched this for the first time in a long while and I cried like a baby. My sister (36), and nieces (15) and (13) have all seen the film several times and bawl hysterically everytime. I think crying is mandatory for The Champ.
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mikep27 — 18 years ago(August 25, 2007 08:29 AM)
i get very emotional all time when i watch this movie heck i even recorded it so i could replay over and over the ending of it make me get choke up.
one part get me is when he run to jackie and say jackie wake him up jackie wake him up i want champ i want champ jackie grab his head and said he gone son he gone son then little TJ start say no he not dead he not dead he not dead just ask the ex wife and his mother annie walk into the locker room then he go over to her while crying looking back at the champ. also what get me is when whole time TJ acting Up is the way Jackie is watching everything. -
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.
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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. -
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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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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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~