History TearJerker / IntoTheWoods

-->'''Prince:''' I shall always the maiden who ran away.\\

-->'''The Witch:''' Since when are you so squeamish? How many wolves have ''you'' carved up?//
'''Little Red:''' A wolf's not the same.//

-->'''The Witch:''' Since when are ''you'' so squeamish? How many wolves have you carved up recently?
-->'''Little Red:''' A wolf's not the same thing--
-->'''The Witch:''' Ask a wolf's mother.

-->'''Prince:''' You'll always be my girl at the ball.\\
'''Cinderella:''' You'll always be my faraway prince.

* Cinderella finds out from the birds that her husband was being unfaithful with the Baker's wife. She knows the giantess killed the poor woman, so she doesn't tell the baker. When the Prince appears in the woods and recognizes her, however, she asks him if she was his only love or if there were more. He actually has the decency to look ashamed, rambles about how he actually never asked to be king and doesn't know what his true self even is, and then accepts their effective divorce with quiet words:
-->'''Prince:''' You'll always be my princess.\\

* Cinderella finds out from the birds that her husband was being unfaithful with the Baker's wife. She knows the giantess killed the poor woman, so she doesn't tell the baker. When the Prince appears in the woods and recognizes her, however, she asks him if she was his only love or if there were more. He actually has the decency to look ashamed.

* "Cinderella at the Grave" with Cinderella crying just before her dress and slippers form. Creator/AnnaKendrick does a pretty good job as you can just see the pain in her eyes. Especially with the background music as Cinderella's iconic dress and slippers are formed by magic.

'''Baker's Wife:''' Don't say that, of course you were meant to have children.
** "Sometimes people leave you/Halfway through the wood/Do not let it grieve you/No one leaves for good..."

* Rapunzel reuniting with her prince.
** While Rapunzel's crushing death is averted in the film, she is last seen riding off with her faithful prince. While still ''less'' sad than in the play, it still manages to be sad for a completely different reason.

** What hurts the most is that the interaction starts off happily, with Jack telling the Baker he can't wait to let his mother know that he killed the giant. When the Baker breaks the news, Jack's last moment of innocence comes with the childlike question, "Can no one bring her back?" You can hear him asking an adult for the reassurance that both of them know won't come.

** One version to watch is Hannah Waddingham in the Regent's Park version, she sings it's understanding her mistakes.

* First there's "The Witch's Lament" when [[spoiler: Rapunzel gets crushed by the Giantess]]:

* Rapunzel's entire history. Locked up in a tower, banished to the desert, betrayed by her prince and then [[spoiler: crushed underneath the Giantess]]. It's hard not to shed a little tear for her.
* The [[spoiler: ghost of the]] Baker's Wife's entrance just before the reprise of "Children Will Listen".

* The last half hour or so is just a non-stop tearjerker.

* The fact that the last conversation the Baker and his Wife has is a fight.

* "No More" the tragically beautiful song between the Baker and his father is cut, but we still have the Baker alone sobbing over [[spoiler: the scarf he gave his wife right before she died]].

** To be fair, her actions before her transformation did result in Rapunzel's rejection.

** In the 2014 movie, there's the part where Jack learns that his mother is dead. The Baker has to tell this child that he's alone in the world and then explains that the Steward did it. Jack immediately starts planning to kill the Steward for what he did. What really sells it is how Jack talks. While he acts tough, you can tell he's doing his best to fight off tears. After he chokes out, "What the Steward did was wrong!" you can make out that he really ''is'' crying. The fact that Jack is actually played by an actual child and not an older actor doesn't help matters at all.

** Averted in the 2014 movie, where she is last seen riding off with her faithful prince. While still ''less'' sad than in the play, it still manages to be sad for a completely different reason.

* When The Baker leaves the rest of the survivors, and then the duet with his father's ghost.
** The song is cut from the 2014 movie, but we still have the Baker alone sobbing over [[spoiler: the scarf he gave his wife right before she died]].

* In the 2014 movie, Rapunzel reuniting with her prince.
* The 2014 movie's version of "Cinderella at the Grave." Especially the background music as Cinderella's iconic dress and slippers are formed by magic.
** Also, Cinderella crying just before her dress and slippers form. Creator/AnnaKendrick did a pretty good job. You can just see the pain in her eyes.
* In the 2014 movie, the Baker's Wife finding out about the curse is heart-wrenching, no matter how brief that sob was. The poor woman just got told that because of something she had nothing to do with, something that wasn't her or her husband's fault, her greatest desire will never, ever be a possibility.
* In the 2014 movie when the Witch briefly thinks the Baker and his wife failed to get the right ingredients. In most productions the Witch is pissed, but in the movie she sits down and breaks into tears. Creator/MerylStreep said in interviews she felt the Witch's only motivation in the movie was to prevent losing her daughter, and it comes across here.

** ''No more giants waging war/Can't we just pursue our lives with our children and our wives/'Til that happy day arrives how do you ignore?''

** In the 2014 movie, there's the part where Jack learns that his mother is dead. The Baker has to tell this kid that he's alone in the world and then explains that the Steward did it. Jack immediately starts planning to kill the Steward for what he did. What really sells it is how Jack talks. While he acts tough, you can tell he's doing his best to fight off tears. After he chokes out, "What the Steward did was wrong!" you can make out that he really ''is'' crying. The fact that Jack is actually played by a kid and not an older actor doesn't help matters at all.

** In the film, there's the part where Jack learns that his mother is dead. The Baker has to tell this kid that he's alone in the world and then explains that the Steward did it. Jack immediately starts planning to kill the Steward for what he did. What really sells it is how Jack talks. While he acts tough, you can tell he's doing his best to fight off tears. After he chokes out, "What the Steward did was wrong!" you can make out that he really ''is'' crying. The fact that Jack is actually played by a kid and not an older actor doesn't help matters at all.

* When the baker finds Cinderella silently kneeling over the destroyed remains of her mother's grave. The tree that granted all of her wishes was killed, and her dreams crushed.

** Averted in the 2014 film, where she is last seen riding off with her faithful prince. While still ''less'' sad than in the play, it still manages to be sad for a completely different reason.

** The song is cut from the film, but we still have the Baker alone sobbing over [[spoiler: the scarf he gave his wife right before she died]].

* In the 2014 film, Rapunzel reuniting with her prince.
* The film's version of "Cinderella at the Grave." Especially the background music as Cinderella's iconic dress and slippers are formed by magic.
** Also,Cinderella crying just before her dress and slippers form. Creator/AnnaKendrick did a pretty good job. You can just see the pain in her eyes.
* In the film, the Baker's Wife finding out about the curse is heartwrenching, no matter how brief that sob was. The poor woman just got told that because of something she had nothing to do with, something that wasn't her or her husband's fault, her greatest desire will never, ever be a possibility.
* In the film when the Witch briefly thinks the Baker and his wife failed to get the right ingredients. In most productions the Witch is pissed, but in the film she sits down and breaks into tears. Creator/MerylStreep said in interviews she felt the Witch's only motivation in the film was to prevent losing her daughter, and it comes across here.

* In the film when the Witch briefly thinks the Baker and his wife failed to get the right ingredients. In most productions the Witch is pissed, but in the film she sits down and breaks into tears. Meryl Streep said in interviews she felt the Witch's only motivation in the film was to prevent losing her daughter, and it comes across here.

** Also,Cinderella crying just before her dress and slippers form. Anna Kendrick did a pretty good job. You can just see the pain in her eyes.

* The Witch's words to Rapunzel after she becomes beautiful again. "This is the real me!" She just sounds so ''happy'', like she genuinely believes that her appearance was all that was causing problems with their relationship.