so powerful for me now is the heart-wrenching way it has of making me long to be a kid again. I had no idea a movie could be so powerful when I saw this in the movies for the first time when I was eleven. It's heart-breakingly sad, yet phenomenally uplifting at the same time. The movie still makes tears well up in my eyes and gives me a lump in my throat. I laid in my bed and cried for about five hours. for the first time, I couldn't talk for the rest of the day. Only four or five movies have made me cry, much less sob uncontrollably. This movie blew me out of my seat as a kid, and still kills me every time I watch it.