There are movies that make you tear up a little, movies that have you sobbing long after you leave the theater, and then there's Francis Lawrence and JT Mollner's 2025 live-action adaptation of Stephen King's dystopian sci-fi thriller The Long Walk.
The film, which stars a lovable ensemble cast of mostly hopeless misfits, is book-accurate right up until it flips the original ending – turning a rather selfish story on its head by putting love at the forefront and rendering it not only better than the book, but one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made… and the saddest movie of 2025. Have you ever watched a film in theaters and been absolutely inconsolable by the time the credits roll?
