Anne Hathaway starred in the Oscar-winning tearjerker, Les Miserables.
Do films like Les Miserables make you cry? Rob and Feifei discuss why we love to watch films that bring out an emotional response, and cause us to blub and sob.
We hear how watching a film gives us a chance to let our emotions out and learn several expressions to describe crying and feeling upset.
This week's question:
Which film won the most ever Oscar awards?
a) Ben Hur
b) Slumdog Millionaire
c) Gone With The Wind
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
Listen
Why we love a film that makes us cry
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Vocabulary
- to burst into tears
to start crying loudly and suddenly
- misty-eyed
feeling that you might start to cry
- a weepy
a film that makes you cry
- a tearjerker
(also) a film that makes you cry
- to blub
to cry noisily
- a sob story
a story someone tells to get sympathy
- goose bumps
small bumps on your skin caused by being scared, excited, upset or cold
- to cry your heart out
to cry uncontrollably
- it's a crying shame
it's regrettable, unfortunate or unfair
- to cry over spilt milk
to waste time worrying about something small or something that cannot be changed
