She’s the favorite actress of a lot of people for many different reasons, but very few people can cry like Meryl Streep when it comes to a role. Whether you like her or not the level of emotion she can bring to a role is simply uncanny. There have been moments throughout the last several years in which a lot of folks have had an issue with Streep for the things she says and the attitude she displays off screen but onscreen there’s not a lot else to say except that she’s one of the elite and is by the measure of most a stupendous actor that deserves a lot of the accolades that have been heaped upon her over the years. The ability to cry on demand is something that a lot of us couldn’t, or wouldn’t, just do on a whim.
She must be really in touch with her emotions, or so it would seem.
5. Kramer vs. Kramer
When a couple divorce the damage done can be horrendous, especially if they have children. The toll this takes on them is hard enough, but the emotional turmoil that the child goes through is even worse. Any idea that a mother is more fit than a father to raise their children however is being slowly but surely overturned as the years go by, as it becomes more of a matter of who is better equipped to take care of the kids.
4. Sophie’s Choice
There were terrible things done during WWII, but none so terrible as the dreaded and detestable camps that led people to their demise in more than one way. In this film however the true horror is the act of making a mother choose which child will be sent to a camp to die a slow and painful death, and which will be killed quickly. No sane mother could possibly make this choice.
3. She-Devil
Poor Mary Fisher. She didn’t know she was messing with the wrong man when she stole away a woman’s husband and left her with their children. Naive Mary Fisher didn’t think her fairy tale life could be upended so easily. After all she had money, she had fame, and she had everything a woman could want. But alas Mary Fisher, she riled a She-Devil, and their fury hath no end.
2. Ricki and the Flash
Ricki wasn’t really a disruptive mother, since you have to be there to be disruptive. Instead she split on her family and did her own thing up until years later when they called her and decided that they wanted her back. Upon making her way back though she found out just what kind of damage she really caused and why no one really bothered her until this point.
1. The Deer Hunter
It can’t be easy knowing that you’re going to marry a man that’s going to be going off to a possible danger zone as a rite of passage that he’s expected to undertake. Even worse, Nick is never the same after his experiences and eventually never comes back.
She’s the queen of the cry she is.
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