It is on right now.
She just hugged him after he told her about the baby.
Emotional high point of the film.

I watched it for the firtst time past last Saturday night, and totally loved it. Honestly, I had very little expectations and only got the movie because I wanted "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and it was chaeper to buy the double-feature-DVD. Finally, I ended up liking "Starman" way better! The starring couple is beautiful, lovely and had a lot of chemistry, and everything else was so poignant and well done. It became an instant favorite of mine.
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop

Yep, Starman is a wonderfully emotionally wrenching film. And directed by the 70s/80s horror master, John Carpenter. How about that? Starman is one of the good side effects of the unfortunate box office failure of The Thing.

Know I am late in this, but I agree with your entire post
Starman is one of those films I can watch every year or so and enjoy as much as the first time because of its central themes of love and loss and the lovely performances from Jeff and Karen (gods I fancied her like crazy, reinforced every time I watch the movie).
You mention the end, and I think what made it so emotional was that we the watcher never see him actually leave, but as you said we view its effect on Jenny as her new found love leaves never to return.
Si vis pacem, para bellum

I just watched it for the first time and, boy, not a dry eye in the house. Absolutely beautiful film.
"Women. They're just like the woods: mysterious full of wolves."

Not sappy?
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence (& their directors)

I only ever have seen this wonderful film twice. Once was on VHS some years ago after obtaining the soundtrack in the 1990s( I collect film scores) but I've always been a devout John Carpenter Fan as well as Jeff and Karen respectively.
Anyway, I enjoyed the film but time moved on, and so did I.
Recently I was lucky to catch the film play on the big screen on a mint original 35mm projction and I tell you this film had me misty-eyed for the ENTIRE ride. Hadn't seen it since the only other time I'd watched it about 10 years prior, and I was a mess. Once the "define love" moment in the restaurant happened, it was a MAJOR emotional ride from there on in, especially the finale. It's one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Karen and Jeff were so amazing here. John Carpenter treaded new boundaries that are far beyond the normal Class-A horror he usually produced.
When will you ever learn, this feeling is all you can discern?

Just saw this today, it was lovely. It really tugged at my heartstrings, and that's not too easy for movies to do.

This came out when I was 11 and I really liked it then, I became a fan of Jeff Bridges because of the movie Tron so I made sure to always check out his movies. This movie now has different meaning to me, it reminds me of the 80's and being a kid but now that I have my own kids it makes me feel emotional thinking about how lucky I am to have them. When he leaves her at the end it's cool knowing he gave her a son and that she got to spend some more time with her husband and able to say goodbye. Even though he wasn't her husband he is the closet thing she could get to him obviously. It makes me feel appreciative of the life I have and the family I get to spend a lot of time with. If I ever feel like I am being too selfish about something I will watch this movie and it puts me back in my place. Lol

Same here! There are still scenes that get me every time! And I love that music! As dated as it might be, I think it holds up really well! Let's just hope that it doesn't get the remake treatment!

I watched this film in 1986 with the girl I've loved the most in my life. At the part where Jenny is going to leave Starman and take the bus back home, then changes her mind, my girlfriend said: "She's going to stay with him." Whenever I see that part I always break down. Very emotional film.

I have always found the scene with the deer very affecting.
Definitely an underrated gem.
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I have a lot of fond memories of this movie. I remember about a year after it came out I was home sick from school and my mom and I watched it on HBO. I've seen it a couple of times since then and it always leaves an impression.

No matter how much I try not too I weep every time I see this movie. It touches me so deeply I get misty if I hear the music! Damn good movie!
I re-watched it this morning - I knew it was going to be on so I set my DVR to record it - and was an emotional wreck. The deer scene is of course a tearjerker, but there are so many more. Starman emerging from the flames carrying Jenny. The way he touches her lips before he departs. The way the camera stays on Jenny and then fades to black. John Carpenter is such an underrated director, and this is perhaps his most underrated film.

No matter how much I try not too I weep every time I see this movie. It touches me so deeply I get misty if I hear the music! Damn good movie!

If you haven't seen it, check him out in Never Cry Wolf, he's great in that too.
"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill

Both leads in this movie are sensational - believable and heartbreaking.
I'll also give a shout-out for the always under-rated Charles Martin Smith who is just great in a career best role.
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It's always great to see people revisit the film but it really brings a smile to my face when someone just watches it for the first time and loves it as much as the fans do.
"Candy CANES?? Are you mocking me?"

• Dr. Gregory House

indeed

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I cried at the sex scene, am i weird?

Yes, I think that ending shot is absolutely perfect - Karen Allen is really great in the movie, so naturalistic. It's amazing to me to make a fantastical sci-fi movie that manages to evoke more genuine human emotion than so many films that have nothing fantastical going on in them.
I also really like the music - it is very eighties, but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, and it's not overpowering.
Reason is a pursuit, not a conclusion.