What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:02am
Mine:
"Mr. DeMille--I'm ready for my closeup!"
--SUNSET BOULEVARD
What's Yours?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:04am
I suppose it's a cliche', but you DID ask for the favorite:
"Oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home." - The Wizard of Oz
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:08amWhen Ellen Burstyn cured the little boy at the end of "Resurrection" and nobody but her knew she had done it.
#3re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:15am
I agree with DGrant. TWOO ends perfectly and is priceless.
Of recent flicks, I must say the last ten minutes of Billy Elliot always brings me to tears. "Billy your family is here..."
"ubiquitous"
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:24am
Andy - that last scene of Billy Elliott is breathtaking!
Schmaltzy as it may be, I have to say a movie ending at the top of my list would be:
It's A Wonderful Life
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#5re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:26amThe last scene in THE COLOR PURPLE might just be my favorite. Talk about making Matt_G sob.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#6re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:27am
Love reading this and love all of the choices.
Too hard to pick just one.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#7re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:28amthe What Dreams May Come thread reminded me how much I love that movie, so i'll say I ADORE the ending to that movie. "I found you in Hell, you don't think I can find you in Jersey?" I love it so much!!
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#8re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:31am
Hey Matt,
Did you know that THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated for ELEVEN Academy Awards and won... NONE.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#9re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:32am
M_E, I know all that and more. 
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#10re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:33amAnother less obvious ending is in Out Of Africa. I love everything about that movie, but the best moment in the movie is when Farah asks Karen to build a very big fire so he will know where to find her. It is a moment so beautiful and poetic!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#11re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:36amThe last scene in 'Carrie' is the best!
#12re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:37am
I'm kinda partial to the ending of "All About Eve" when Phoebe steps into the mirror and you see the endless Eve and Phoebe's yet to come...
it finishes the perfect circle with Karin's (Celeste Holm) line from the beginning of the film (she has to meet you -- there is another like you, there couldn't be)
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#13re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 10:54am
My two personal faves:
Scarlett O'Hara sobbing after Rhett leaves her, and then just simply saying "I'll think about it tomorrow...after all, tomorrow is another day."
Kevin Costner at the end of Field of Dreams, "Hey Dad- wanna catch?" I'm really not a crier, but that ALWAYS gets me.
and my new fave-
Samwise Gamgee returning home from the Grey Havens, and little Elanor is running to meet him. "Well, I'm back." LOVE IT. Crying EVERY time.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#14re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 11:00amAddy - that moment in Out of Africa makes me cry so hard...I love the relationship between the two of them - its hauntingly beautiful.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#15re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 11:10amMy favorite ending is the end of ET. The close-up of Elliot's face and then the cut to the credits. It always brings a tear to my cynical eye. On the DVD there's an alternate ending that was shot...I'm so glad they didn't use it...it's perfection as it is.
#16re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 11:44am
CLUE, obviously, because there are three endings... 
#17re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:05pmAndy- i was JUST about the agree with you (hence the super cool icon)
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DaysOfWine&Roses
Stand-by Joined: 10/19/04
#18re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:09pm
"It's a Wonderful Life" gets me every.......single.......time!
Also the ending of "Titanic" where Jack and Rose are reunited......I'm crying like a baby.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#19re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:14pm
It's not a well-known movie, but it's a sure-fire tear-jerker:
Without A Trace. When the little boy has been found and the cop (Judd Hirsch) is bringing him home. The cops from CT and NY escort him into the city...all the while the mother (Kate Nelligan) is going about her daily chores with no idea what's going on. She arrives home - to crowds on her block - and the dog senses something and breaks away from her hold. She suddenly realizes it's her son, drops her groceries and flies to him to scoop him up. It makes me SOB!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#20re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:18pm
WOW, Addy!
"Without a Trace" sounds super-cool--I'm going to have to check it out!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0086593/
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#21re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:21pmOne of the many endings from, "Love Actually". The one where the British guy learns portuguese to propose to the woman he loves. I have seen this movie many times and this scene has me in tears every time!!!
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#22re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:21pm
My favorite is THE TRUMAN SHOW.
The score goes:
BONG
[pause]
BONG
[pause]
BONG
[pause]
BONG
[long pause]
TRUMAN: And in case I don't see ya: good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
[TRUMAN bows and turns to exit thru the door. A slight moment of hesitation, but he walks thru.]
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#23re: What's Your Favorite Ending To a Movie?
Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:23pmM_E - it's actually not a GREAT movie. Very dated (now) and low-budget. Very loosely based on the disappearance of Etan Patz. But, Kate Nelligan is extraordinary in it. And the ending...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 12/17/04 at 12:23 PM
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