What's the sappiest movie ever made?

Clearly you have never seen this movie.

Or if you have you are deaf and were not reading subtitles.

Or maybe you are just a dimwit and completely missed all the dialoge speaking about the political and the financial implications of the 'miracle.'

You also missed Cooper's envy and viciousness towards Bernadette for not being 'chosen' herself by God.

And the ending where Bernadette herself has doubts.

Clearly OP you are a raving idiot.

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Florence Griffith Joyner Foster Jenkins comes close.

When I was a kid, there was a very unfortunate looking girl in my class, named Bernadette. We used to call her "Burned to Death". Children can be so cruel.

You're absolutely right R1! The Song of Bernadette is far from being a sappy movie. In fact, I think Jennifer Jones portrayed one of cinema's biggest badasses in this beloved classic - Bernadette failed to learn her catechism, she annoyed sister Vauzos the whole time, she disregarded the authorities and even had some snappy comebacks, like: "Do you act like an animal when you eat salad?" If it weren't for the Hays code Jennifer Jones would probably even do a topless scene.

Stella Dallas

Madame X

I Want to Live!

Meet Me in St Louis

Imitation of Life

A Summer Place

Light in the Piazza

I own this thread.

I'd argue it's The Next Voice You Hear

The imdb.com description says it all:

"Over a period of a week the voice of God is heard on radios all over the world."

Ha ha r4 I used to work with a woman named Juana and I teased her once calling her iguana and she got quite cross!

DONDi (1961)

DAVID JANSSEN and PATTI PAGE spend an hour and a half being entertained by adorable 6 year old DONDi who'll warm your heart !!

Or in my case little DONDi gave me a new insight into the CASEY ANTHONY case, a woman for whom I now have complete empathy !!

Oh, this piece of crap:

Filming this movie, the poor actors were constantly having to side step multiple puddles of sap.

R12, you are a philistine. [italic]The Sound of Music[/italic] is a classic. Now that movie about the bitch who flies over England and sings about the virtues of sugar, there's a crappy movie for you. Disney has the blood of everyone who died young because of complications from diabetes on their four-fingered gloved hands.

God, I hate The Sound If Music! I saw it when I was nine years old and even at that age thought it was disgustingly corny.

R15, you're stupid and so is anyone who dislikes that but likes that limey bitch with the umbrella.

SoM is horrible. I never said I liked any movie about a nanny.

[italic]The Sound of Music[/italic] is an absolutely brilliant piece of filmmaking that showcases Julie Andrews at the top of her ability. That and [italic]Victor / Victoria[/italic] are the two Oscar-nominated films she did deserve awards for. The cinematography, editing, and scoring are all top-notch, and there isn't a single miscast role. It is not by any means a horrible film, it is far superior to the play on which it was based, and anyone who claims otherwise on either point should be stigmatized, shunned and cast out of every sector of society.

Wow, watch the fur fly on this thread!

For people who claim to adore sugary movies you're sure a bunch of vicious cunts.

Does any of the eldergays remember this parody of "The Sound of Music" from Mad Magazine?

Oh c'mon [R17] - not even THIS one?

I remember that MAD parody, R20. They questioned how Captain Von Trapp could be in the Navy when Austria is landlocked, conveniently forgetting that he was in the navy of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and at the time Georg Von Trapp was part of it, they controlled what are now Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which were definitely not landlocked.

Penny Serenade, gets me every time.

I could never sit through The Sound of Music.

r15 If sap-detectors on at full blast before the age of 10 is a criterion, then I submit "Benji" (1974) as a candidate. So corny it probably contributed to insulin resistance of millions (#3 box office rank in 1974)

Anyone who hates TSOM, I'm glad I don't know you.

It's A Wonderful Life (a wonderful movie, but still sappy)

Disney's Pollyanna.

Dear god, Pollyanna wins, hands down.

R8 oh no you don't.

Nuh-uh, R28 and R30.

You forgot about "Heidi."

I second Penny Serenade r23 and Song of Bernadette is right up there too OP. 1940s films has many others to choose from though.

Frau Rottenmeier at R32, you had best NOT be dissin' the 1937 classic version of HEIDI! I will cut a bitch over Shirley!

I nominate a favorite, YOU CAME ALONG, which was Lizabeth Scott's film debut. Sappy, soapy, and wonderful.

Going My Way and its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's

That pic at OP looks like Hillary in a habit.

Penny Serenade was the first movie that came to my mind. But it's not sappy in an enjoyable way (like The Sound of Music) is but in a annoying one. I really like George Stevens' movies but this one is an exception.

It's not even out yet but I vote for this movie as the sappiest.

On Golden Pond

Cocoon

Love, Actually

R8 is right, there must be tons with Robin Williams especially the one with him wearing the red nose.

Patch Adams

I love the Patch Adams scene from Cecil B. Demented.

Dawson's No Load Weekend. It was so sad when every guy in the bar shrieked and ran away from him.

Sound of Music, I felt I was going into diabetic shock after watching it.

This cuntless wonder of a film...

Step aside, young 'uns, the winner is making her entrance: DL fave(?) Greer Garson in the schmaltziest, sappiest, tear-stained film OF. ALL. TIME., I present to you "Blossoms in the Dust." Thank you, thank you, hold your applause though, after seeing it you may just want to arm yourselves with pitchforks and torches. God but this is a crappy/sappy film, and one of my guiltiest pleasures. Want it to be even better? It's based on a real woman's life. View it if you dare.

The Big Chill

I am SO disappointed in you DLers! Nearly 50 responses, and no one has mentioned the absolute schlockiest, sappiest movie of all time, LOVE STORY. God, what a predictable POS that was! It is followed by the monumentally insipid JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.

What is the matter with you people?

LOVE STORY !!

A recent submission starring repulsive goody-goody Jennifer Garner and her ridiculous lips.

I second "Dondi".

Imitation of Life (1959) had its moments.

"Beaches," bitches!

I third Love Story.

I fourth Love Story. It's the Citizen Kane of sappy love dramas. It also features the cheesiest slogan and musical score of all times.

Of any "acclaimed" movie, surely the Shawshank Redemption.

Inexplicably the most overrated movie of all time.

All of Debbie Reynold's sappy musicals.

Love means........never having to say you're..... *sob*....... sorry

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes".

"success means nothing unless you have someone to share it with": "Mahogany"*

*provided that that success is not shared with your fellow Motown artists

Love means ALWAYS having to say you're sorry.

" Dawson's 50 Load Weekend" produced more sap than any other film.

Here's the teary, yet happy, finale of my renowned movie, "Mahogany," for which I also designed my own costumes!

I Remember Mama deserves a mention.

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. I went into a diabetic coma and the only way they could get me out of it was to blare Pink Flamingos very loudly in my hospital room.

8 1/2

This 1973 musical version of LOST HORiZON is down there with the worst.

but wait ...... there's more !

Those godawful BILLY JACK movies with that heinous wife of his who had she only lost two more teeth could've played Granny in that BEVERLY HiLLBiLLIES movie 20 odd years ago instead of CLORIS LEACHMAN.

more............

On Golden Pond is vicious face slapping worthy sappy.

You're my knight in shinny armor, and don't you forget it!

I think Titanic with Leo and Kate deserves an honorable mention .

Let's not forget: Terms of Endearment , An Officer and a Gentleman , and those fabulous 70's movies :

Something For Joey

The Loneliest Runner , I think it was Lance Kerwin who played a bedwetter .

The Other Side of the Mountain. The corniest movie song sung by Olivia really pushes it over the top.

The Blind Side.

I have to agree with On Golden Pond. Sentimental hogwash.

The new movie "Southside With You" about Obama and Michelle's first date should beat any listed here.

Yup, looks pretty bad!

I thought R77 was joking but apparently this movie actually exists. It sounds almost like a cheesy fan-fiction tale.

Oh it's real all right.

Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Love Story!-Terrible!!!!

I'm sorry, but "Up the Down Staircase" is pretty sappy to me. They say it's a great movie, and maybe it was back in 1967, but today, it makes me roll up my eyes and shake my head.

Lord of the Rings trilogy.

William Higgins' COUSINS. I blubbered like a baby when Billy Gant unselfishly decides to suck off sleeping cousin Peter North.

Ice Castles. Bonus runoff sap -- its theme song, "Through the Eyes of Love", became Nikki and Victor's song on The Young and the Restless.

LYNN HOLLY JOHNSON is Alexis Winston in ... ... ...

I C E C A S T L E S

with ROBBY BENSON as 'Nick' which rhymes with dick but this Nick is concerned with helping a blinded skating champion learn how to once again master her sport.

I forgot about Ice Castles . That one was pretty bad .

Also , Regarding Henry , The Story of Us, and My Life .

The Notebook

The Birdman of Alcatraz

Titanic

Ghost

Dirty Dancing

Terms of Endearment is a film like Kramer vs Kramer that I feel earned its sentimentality. It's not shameless crap like most of these others listed.

Even in heaven, you're still going to be stuck in that wheelchair kid.........

Miracle In Lane 2

Change of Habit with Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. Elvis plays a doctor who cures a little girl's autism by hugging her until she cries her way back to normalcy. Yeah, it's as simple as that.

I'll Plant My Own Tree: The Helen Lawson Story.

Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE is an ironic take on the sappy movie.

Sappiest genre: the boxing movie (THE CHAMP, ROCKY, MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE).

Classic film stars guaranteed to provide a sappy movie experience: Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple, Sonja Henie, June Allyson.

Oh gawd! I just watched the trailer posted at R38, and my eyes are leaking uncontrollably.....

"Was there a point to this journey of mine? And how did bacon fit in?" HA! That's a great a line.

Mr. Saturday Night , even though I did enjoy it.

City of Angels , when Meg Ryan looked normal .

The Miracle of Kathy Miller , for those of you who grew up in the 70's .

[quite] City of Angels , when Meg Ryan looked normal.

Ryan's death in this movie is one of the dumbest movie scenes I've ever seen. That bitch totally deserved to be hit by that truck for being so fucking careless.

And tell the father one of them is black as the ace of spades.

Another vote for Ice Castles.

City of Angels because it was a sappy remake of the brilliant Wings of Desire and it was an intersection of the films of Nicolas Cage and hers that were trying to out-sap each other for a while there. I'll take a Sleepless in Seattle and raise you one Family Man.

Barman '66. When Batman discovers that girlfriend Miss Kitka is really the Catwoman, the look on his face just hits you where you live.

Amelie comes to mind. All of that cutesy narration, gag.

Schindler's List.

R99 I'll take your Family Man and raise you The Fault In Our Stars .

Sleepless in Seattle

You've Got Mail

Serendipity

Ice Castles. RIP Robby Benson.

Step Mom with Julia Roberts. Ugh, it came out when it was fashionable to have the cast sing along together usually to an old song and also dance together.

Was Robby Benson gay? Hows come he hasn't been talked about and/or trashed on DL? He was a huge deal in the 70s to 80s.

Love Story and Brian's Song.

R102 – Yes, Schindler's List was awfully sappy, but the book was funnier.

I find it hard to believe that Benson is 60 already. He looks at least 10 years younger.

r110 Ahhhhh no, I would say hie looks all of 60. A handsome 60 but 60 nonetheless.

How soon we forget!

The Shawshank Redemption. Morgan Freeman at his most trite.

The spring is not for me.

The Seduction with Morgan Fairchild and Andrew Stevens.

R102, you deserved to get banned for that.

Easy!

R117 I LOVE maple syrup.

The Color Purple and Forrest Gump are incredible sappy movies...embarrassingly so.

What was the name of that Florence Henderfuck movie -- the ripoff of Sound of Music?

THAT movie owns this thread.

The Song of Norway, r120.

R94 mentioned it, but I second "The Champ" with Ricky Schroeder.

Going My Way, with child-beater Bing Crosby as a priest. Jeez!

Anything directed by Lasse Hallstrom.

Anything with June Allyson.

Patch Adams

Any Tracy / Hepburn movie