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Another Robin Williams heart breaker occurs in The Fisher King, actually I'll name two scenes. Some background first, Robin Williams plays a school teacher who ends up wearing his beloved wife's brains after she gets shot in the head with a shotgun. He then creates Perceival his alternate persona to deal with his great tragedy. He is reminded of his former life by Jack (Jeff Bridges) and remembers enough of the incident to drive him into a stark mad screaming fit.

In another great scene, he is rejected by his new love interest played by Amanda Plummer, and before he can confess his love for her, she basically shuts him down because she believes he'll just use her. The speech he gives in this scene alone is well worth watching the movie.


Another great heartbreaker comes from my second favorite film, Little Big Man, in which Dustin Hoffman plays a boy who grows up in the world of the white man and Indian.

One particular scene comes to mind, Hoffman has finally found peace and come to live with the Cheyenne with his wife and baby, and all seems well at last. In the background drums and flutes fade in, and you know that is the sign that Custer is coming with his army. Hoffman manages to escape but watches as Custer's men slaughter his wife and child at the Battle of Washita River.

Finally my 3rd favorite movie and also a tearjerker, Harold and Maude, the scene where Harold finds out that Maude has taken the pills and has committed suicide right after thier wedding is a killer. Cat Steven's Trouble plays as he deals with her death, hell of a scene.