It makes it even worse when you are hearing real stories of people you know who went through that. My father-in-law told me stories about how he used to steal root vegetables from gardens and whatnot. It personalizes an emotional gut punch of a film. One the bright side, one of the funniest movie reviews I ever read online was of that film
“I am NEVER going to put myself through a movie like this again. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER AND YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!”