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Spoiler - alternate view of the ending


Just curious...but I was thinking that perhaps she didn't adopt a daughter from China, but rather in an ironic set of circumstances the donor she selected for her procedure was Chinese.

Completely wrong I'm sure, but it was a stray thought that made me chuckle, thought someone else may be amused.

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I just read an email from a friend who watched this and she thought the same thing.
I figured she was adopted because Colin Firth's kids were still about the same age and they would have had to have aged several years for her to have had a baby that would be that old.
Then I listened to Helen Hunt's commentary and she said she was adopted.

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>I figured she was adopted because Colin Firth's kids were still about the same age

[SPOILER] I wasn't paying enough attention at the end of the movie to notice the age of his kids or even if they were shown, but they'd have to be about 5 years older. It takes about 18 months to adopt a baby from China, and you have to be married 2 years to qualify. So assuming they married immediately and applied 2 years later, that's 3.5 years before they got the girl. Then if the girl was about 6 months old when adopted, which is a typical age, and is about 2 in the last scene, that's another 18 months. So it's a total of 5 years later.

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This child was absolutely adopted. The point was that April realized that she would love an adopted child as much as a child she delivered. April kept resisting the idea of adoption because she was adopted and felt less her parents' child than her brother. She realized she was wrong -- so she was able to adopt the little girl.

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Good catch - you got me laughing for about a minute!
LOL! :-)

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i thought the same at the first moment LOL but then the ages of the other children wouldn't fit

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i just finished the movie, and i seriously thought that the baby was hers biologically, and that the guy was Asian. But I was mistaken. It was a very surprising ending, since she was all "I'm not going to adopt" throughout the entire movie.

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I actually considered that possibility too.
Also, maybe I blinked for a second or stopped paying attention at a crucial moment - did Colin Firth take her back or not?

Rose: How was that sentence going to end?
Tenth Doctor: Does it need saying?
Me: YES!!!!

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Yes, he took her back. She was at his house in the last seen with the little girl. Her mother and brother were there too.

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Yes, he took her back. She was at his house in the last seen with the little girl



I agree he took her back, but I thought the last scene was her mother's waterfront house, not Frank's. That's why the mother and brother were there. It's not a house we have seen before, and it looked out of reach financially for anybody but Bette's character.


You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

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Haha, I hadn't thought of that. It would have been funny.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

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honestly, that is what I thought happened - that her donor was Chinese.

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COME ON PEOPLE !

how can a "different" ending be realistic ?!


people complain when a movie "explains things to them (explicitly)" - and yet here we have people who DO NEED to have it spelled out for them !!

obviously her last-attempt at pregnancy didn't work.

the movie had referenced 'adopting Chinese babies' right from the start and it being a "NO WAY" choice for her.

it just goes to show you that in life you really can't always get what you want - THAT is why this movie is so beautiful, despite ALL the things that went wrong for her, she gets her happiness because she accepts it.


this is NOT a movie for 'escapism' - but it celebrates LIFE; VERY beautifully - bittersweet - but beautifully nonetheless.



He was going for the Tim-Tams

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and I also believe that in those sperm donnor's forms, they list ethnicity and physical features!

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Haha! I like that idea but i agree it's a little too out there

Do guys like "the thing"?
They like it better than no thing.

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