Hollywood endings that you doubt really ended that happily ever after

^ Principal McGee had Sandy arrested for dressing so indecently at the fair. Her parents took her back to Sydney, but life without Danny took its toll and Sandy went a little mad, with episodes of "nymphomania." She was placed at Cumberland Hospital and lobotomized.

Picnic. Despite itself, the movie unintentionally telegraphs that Hal and Midge are doomed. He'll end up banging a waitress because Madge feels bad about leaving her family and being part of a huge scandal. She'll end up knocked up but having to settle for a loveless marriage to whatever guy will accept her and her bundle of dissapointment. Hal will become a drunk and show up in the kid's life every few years until dissapearing completely.

*disappearing...oh dear

You’ve Got Mail - mismatched couple from the beginning

Something’s Gotta Give - she should have chosen Keanu

16 Candles - both immature, young, etc.

Robert Taylor and Ursula Theiss

Sandy was 28.

Sandy wasn't an exchange student. She was in America for the summer and supposed to go back to Australia but "had a change of plans."

Actually R4 I think no John Hughes teenage film has a convincing happy ending. And I think he knew it.

In Sixteen Candles Jake was a genuinely nice guy and Samantha genuinely loved him...but they're not old enough to make it work.

This pales in comparison with Ferris Bueller's Day Off where Sloane's last line is "He's going to marry me!"

Oh honey.

He is so, so not.

Thelma & Louise.

R9: Ridley kind of left that up in the air.

Pretty in pink, another unconvincing happy ending of a Hughes film. Blaine had no personality or spine...l predict Steff was right and Blaine would cave against the pressures of his overbearing snob family and dump Andie before going of to college. And to be honest , he would be dodging a bullet because Andie was literally the most unlikeable character in a Hughes film (that we are suppised to like anyway)

Counterpoint: These two see the writing on the wall just as the curtain starts to close on a happy ending.

Rebellious joy fades into doubt and maybe dread.

OP - I'm confused. At the end of Grease, don't they drive off to heaven? They're dead, right?

Home Alone.

It's all fun and games until Kevin is arrested for attempted murder and his parents are dragged into court for child abandonment.

Three Men and a Baby.

Ugly, ugly custody battle ensues when the guys' throuple breaks up.

J.F.K.

I miss Olivia.

R15- That movie should have been called-

Three GAY Men And A Baby- Three bachelors taking care of a baby- three bachelors indeed.

All of the actors are gay in real life

R17- I'm so sorry for your loss. Was she your wife?

R18 - A few years ago I was approached to do a remake with Ben Affleck and Jason Lee but I said, "NO, I don't play FAGS!"

The Wizard of Oz.

At the end of the day, Kansas really *is* fucking boring.

Andie in Pretty in Pink was astoundingly shallow.

R21 That’s why she went back after escaping from a lobotomy.

Add “Pretty Woman”.

Add any romantic comedy with two polar opposite male and female it’s bound to be hell.

The Wizard of Oz - the day after, an F5 tornado tore through the farm, killing Dorothy, Aunty Em and all the farmhands. Only Toto survived, to be 'adopted' by Miss Gulch.

Dirty Dancing - I don’t see how long Johnny and Baby would have lasted outside of Summer Camp.

I see Baby getting knocked up by Johnny. That's how I see most of these mismatched couples ending up.

I don't think any of the teens in John Hughes' romantic couplings expected to be married and together forever, neither did their audiences. Teen romances are just that. We've all had them and we all know how they turn out.

As for Grease, Danny would have just married Sandy and she'd be a citizen. That's what they did in the 50s when they were lower middle class, they got married to their high school sweethearts.

R25, IIRC the original script for The Wizard of Oz had a remark at the end that Miss Gulch had been killed by the tornado. They removed it because they thought it was too dark for a throwaway line and brought down the happiness of Dorothy's reunion with her family.

As a kid I assumed Miss Gulch had been killed anyway, so direct reference to it was unnecessary.

R28 maybe but my prediction is Blaine dumping a month and not more after the events of the film, not that they wobt get married and have kids.

Sleepless in Seattle. Tom Hanks should have called the cops on that crazy stalker chick

[quote] As a kid I assumed Miss Gulch had been killed anyway, so direct reference to it was unnecessary.

Well, if you personally reacted that way, then the matter is forever settled. It's all about you.

The Graduate. Even the last image was “now what?”

Grease (Fire), part 2.

OP

SANDY DROWNED IN THE OCEAN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE

THE MOVIE IS HER HALLUCINATION

THE MOVIE IS HER HAPPY ENDING

R32, let me rephrase it.

"As a kid I assumed Miss Gulch had been killed anyway, so if an utter drooling idiot such as my child-self could figure it out, perhaps direct reference to it was unnecessary."

Better?

Sandy had a hot ass, but she couldn’t live forever

[quote]Sandy wasn'Sandy wasn't an exchange student. She was in America for the summer and supposed to go back to Australia but "had a change of plans."

The movie turned Sandy into an Aussie and made up some lame excuse to keep her in the U.S. for the school year, because Olivia couldn't do an American accent.

In the actual stage show, Sandy is American, just a new girl in town.

Never seen Grease. Is she really dead? I heard Our Town is another all dead theme. Never seen that one either.

Yeah, Molly Ringwald was supposed to end up going on a friends date (prom) with Anthony Michael Hall. But the focus group liked the Jake ending better. (16 Candles.) Sad. The original ending would have been more realistic and timeless.

IRL, Jake would have satisfied his curiosity in a week and moved on to the next thing.

Summer Nights explains that Danny saved Sandy at the beach. He did not actually succeed. The movie is her hallucination.

I love the Jacob's Ladder explanation for Grease.

The one problem with this theory is Grease 2: isn't Maxwell Caulfield supposed to be Sandy's cousin?

I think the original Pretty in Pink had her pairing up with Duckie.

Goodbye to Sandra Dee is Sandy accepting her death. The next scene is the carnival, and everyone’s problem has resolved itself and Sandy ascends into heaven.

R2 is obviously a piece of drunk shit

Five minutes with Jake at the end of 16 Candles would make a happy ending. Maybe not ever after, but pretty fucking happy nevertheless..

Midnight Cowboy.

As it going to Florida would be a happy ending in itself, Joe Buck was traveling 1200 miles on a bus. With a dead homeless guy. In all that humidity.

r47 - Didn't the actor (Michael Schoeffling) turn his back on Hollywood and became a wood craftsman in Bumfuck, Nowhere? I don't think he ever got married, either...

See link for current Mike. He's around 63 now.

Mickey Rooney was a rapist

Were JG and MR lovers??

Midnight Cowboy wasn't purporting to be a happy ending.

[quote] Yeah, Molly Ringwald was supposed to end up going on a friends date (prom) with Anthony Michael Hall. But the focus group liked the Jake ending better. (16 Candles.) Sad. The original ending would have been more realistic and timeless.

You've got your John Hughes movies all mixed up, hon. Shhhh now.

Yes to most of that, r49, except he did get married and has at least one kid

R49 that is absolutely not Michael Schoeffling. There are no recent photos of Michael Schoeffling. Even his son and daughter's social media doesn't have any recent photos of him. The person you linked to doesn't even look like Michael Schoeffling. Do better.

[quote]Never seen Grease. Is she really dead?

No, that's just a fan theory, not the filmmakers' intention.

Reckless. When I was a teen I thought Aiden Quinn riding through the school to pick up Daryl Hannah and take her away was romantic. As an adult I can see the relationship being short live once the thrill of sex starting wearing off and they were broke with no skills and education.

R44 yes but that would have been just as bad since Duckie was clearly overcompensating with his supposed love of Andie and obviously came out 2 years into college (personally I always felt she should have fucked Steff...he was an asshole but my what a sexy beautiful asshole...)

Jack and Rose would never have lasted. He would have gambled his paychecks away while Rose and their children starved in a filthy tenement. Rose would have begged Cal for a job in the kitchen of his Park Avenue mansion.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back. We all know how that ended.

I think Roy Neary would have eventually missed his humanity and his family after giving both up to become alien and fly off as part of his new civilization at the end of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’.

Who would miss those brats and that nagging wife? I'd fly away with one of the creatures from Alien to get away from those assholes.

I think as soon as all the kerfuffle over Crystal Allen was safely in the rearview, Stephen Hanes stepped out on Mary (again) within a year.

This is the first day of my life I have ever heard this dumb Grease theory. So why did Danny ascend to Heaven with her at the end of the movie then?

In Pretty in Pink Ringwald asked Hughes to cast Robert Downey Jr. as Duckie, since she said that would make it realistic for her to go off with him at the end.

Hughes was the jealous sort and scrapped the idea.

He gave Downey the role of a villain in Weird Science instead and planned to humiliate him with the script, but decided not to for time constraints.

Jon Cryer was miffed when he learned that Ringwald preferred Downey to him.

Downey didn't care one way or the other.

RDJ was too good looking to play Duckie. Jon Cryer was perfect. Charming and funny but not good looking enough to transcend the friend zone.

R66, I agree, but that was Ringwald's point - that RDJ's Duckie could have been attractive enough for Andie.

Cryer did a great job but I always wonder what the film would have been like with RDJ in it.

The Matrix.

I bet he was still in the tank of goo the whole time

The flying car crashed after the credits ended killing Danny & Sandy. So much for we'll always be together.

Jack and Rose didn't get together at the end of "Titanic." He froze to death in the water and slipped away, and she was rescued but then she ran away from her oppressive mother and fiancé and started a new life. She saw him in the afterlife when she died, but it was probably just a hallucination.

The happy ending would have never happened even if Jack lived.

The end of LA Confidential, with Kim Basinger and Russell Crowe riding off in the car - moving to Arizona to open up a dress shop. Guy Pearce (who also fucked Kim Basinger) wishing them a fond farewell.

Russell Crowe had already beaten up Kim and would do it again in Arizona. Not realistic for both to give up the lives they had in LA to move to Podunk, AZ.

It appears to be implied in Disney's Snow White that the Prince is a death spirit or liberating angel of sorts.

Based on the reveal of his castle, anyway.