A guy-cry film is the masculine version of the chick flick genre, a film that addresses a male audience, but has strong emotional material. [1][2] Sports films are important to the guy-cry genre, but sports action is not necessarily essential to qualify a film as a genuine guy-cry.[1][2] Some notable sports films that could be defined as guy-cry would be Field of Dreams, Rudy, Brian's Song, and The Wrestler.[1][2]
While it may seem that guy-cry is a neologism, it is a genre that has been around for many years and is now receiving critical attention from scholars and trade publications.[1][2][3] This is mainly due to the financial and often critical successes of films that fall within this genre.[1][2]
Early popular guy-cry films date back to the early 1970s with films such as Five Easy Pieces and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[1][2] Important themes to the guy-cry genre are concepts of brotherhood, sacrifice, loyalty, and family.[1][2]
The Oregonian compilied a list of "films that make men cry"[4], that includes Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, among many others.
In 2005, Entertainment Weekly ran a reader poll of the top guy-cry films.[5] Their choices were as follows:
The above list is taken from a list entitled "Movies that Make Grown Men Cry", which is obviously different from a guy-cry, as guy-cry movies are targeted at males, and not all of these movies are targeted specifically at males.[5]
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