SleepyEgg

It has become a bit of a cliche in the game industry to talk about the last time a game made you cry. But this weekend's Sundance premiere of Indie Game: The Movie seems to be introducing a new question that may seem a bit ridiculous to those familiar with the checkered history of video game cinema: when is the last time a movie about a video game made you cry? Or, even better, made your mom cry?

"When we showed it in Salt Lake City, that was an overwhelming audience of regular people sobbing," Lisanne Pajot, half of the two-person team that created Indie Game: The Movie, told Ars in a recent phone call from the film festival. "This movie tends to kick mothers right in the heart. It's not something we anticipated."