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Living Out Loud-Director's Cut?

posted 11 years ago by arisdaddy2001
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Several years ago I saw this movie On-Demand and loved it. Recently I bought the DVD on Amazon to show a friend and some scenes were different than I recalled. The version I saw had Danny DeVito and Holly Hunter sleeping together one time, which was missing from this one. Also, in the last scene at the club, the version I saw had some conversation between Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito as he told her a little bit about his new business and fiancee, a part also missing from the DVD. Finally, I don't recall how, but the On-Demand version more strongly reinforced her new interest in females. Has anyone else ever seen that version? I thought it was better.

[–] paramitch 8 years ago

I have to wonder what version you saw originally, or if it's possible you misremember based on the original impressions you had from the film. I don't mean that in a bad way -- sometimes it's amazing what we think we remember from a movie.

I saw the movie in the theatre, I own it on DVD, and I just watched it "On Demand" on HBO this weekend after not seeing it for several years. However, in no version I've seen did Hunter and DeVito ever sleep together (the closest is when she kisses Pat in the elevator). She also never speaks to Pat again after he confesses his love (aside from the fantasy sequence) even when she sees him sing.

I've watched with the deleted scenes and director's commentary, but the deleted footage wasn't about the two sleeping together but mostly more fantasy/inner life stuff, including a vision of a unicorn Hunter has in downtown Manhattan.

The scene at the club also never varied in any of the versions I saw. (My take on that sequence wasn't that it was about Hunter realizing an interest in women, it was about her and Liz connecting with themselves and with being a woman, and escaping the world of men and its troubles for a time. Which is why it ends not with a hookup, but with her dancing with her younger self.)

Hope it helps, cheers!

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