Always a tear jerker

yeah... the scene that always gets to me is towards the end, the flashback scene to the dinner where they're eating the "famous crab"; while washing dishes, June's mother telling her that she "sees her". I choke up everytime.

I keep catching the last 45 mins or so of this movie on basic cable. I don't even ever get to see the whole thing and wind up in tears. I'm such a sap!

Nobody ever suspects the butterfly...

Plucky Punk

One of my all-time favorites. The one movie I can always rely on when I need a good cry. The more I watch it the more I appreciate it for being a very well made film. A great script with several engrossing stories skillfully woven together to create a satisfying whole. Touching, honest performances. Well directed considering the immense scope of the script. Filled with poignant themes involving generational, societal and cultural conflicts. It's such a rich, emotionally rewarding film. I heartily agree with an earlier poster about the "I see you" scene. By the time June's mother tells her she has, "best quality heart", I've been reduced to a blubbering mess.

Look at the other critically heralded films released in '93: The Fugitive, The Piano, Remains of the Day, Short Cuts, Philadelphia, The Age of Innocence, What's Love Got to Do With it? I'd put TJLC ahead of any of those films. "Schindler's List" has it's moments of brilliance (as most Spielberg films do), but I never bought into the overly reverant lovefest surrounding this film. In my opinion, only Peter Weir's "Fearless" and Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet" can compare to the total quality of TJLC.

I think it's a vastly under-rated and overlooked film and I highly recommend it.

"Get off of the bed!"

oh my, I feel the same way! Gosh, i can't help but be enticed into watching this movie everytime I catch it on cable.

this film is just so underrated. i'm not a big fan of melodramas but this movie was just so wonderfully executed that it's no wonder its appeal is universal.

yet there will always be its critics. while this movie might seem like too much of a melodrama to some, i think it only comes off as that to them because…
(I’m quoting a user comment from : Ironboundfw from the US)
……[these people may have] come from back grounds that didn't see struggle, that doesn't see the world in unison, but in carefully separated categories. This to them was not a human experience film, it was a film for a minority group. But, while The JOY LUCK CLUB is life affirming to some, to those who have lived the similarities, it is life changing……

i echo the sentiments of everyone on this post except for the guy who went out of his way to bash this film...haha :)

fyi, i have a lot of chinese friends and there’s a teeny bit of chinese in me (about 1/8) but i'm mostly filipina. so it might seem natural for me to relate to the film.

but really, now that i'm going through a crossroad in my life (whether or not to go to the US and leave my homeland for a better future), the themes of joy luck club mean me so much more than ever before.

This will always be on my Top10 fave movies list.

I thought another Wayne Wang film was very moving - Smoke. I thought it was a film that refreshingly focussed on males expressing their emotions towards each other.

The Joy Luck Club, obviously focusses on Asian(American) females, but I think it proves that anyone can relate to a work of art like this. I'm young, male, from the UK... very different from the film characters, but i've cried more at this than any other film i've seen. There's only 3 or 4 films that have done that since i was a child.

I was tearful throughout, in the second half of the film having to wipe my eyes, and then it was no use trying not to cry with some of the later scenes, and then when it gets to the scene between June and her father, and finally with her long lost sisters, i'm just saying 'oh god' to myself over and over

I've read the book and I loved it. At first I thought this book would stink but i read it and I loved it. So I figured watching the movie and every time i see it I wind up in tears.

Only other movie which I'm embarrased I cried at was Titanic when Leo died but now I could care less and I don't cry anymore but The joy luck club never leaves me tearless I always cry when I watch it.

we watched this movie in class after we read the book when i was in high school. i had already seen the movie once. i had to put my head down and pretend i was asleep in class because i didnt want to cry in class! haha

i remember when we saw this movie in high school after we read the book. i kept putting my head down to pretend like i was asleep cuz i would get incredibly weepy.