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Ending Spoilers

posted 17 years ago by sgfirecracker
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I watched this last night trying to get into the holiday spirit and it was shaping up to be a pretty sweet and heartfelt Christmas movie...until the ending. WHAT WAS THAT? It's like they decided at the last minute they wanted to do something different and just threw that idea out and went with it. And you find it out in the last 10 minutes, are left thinking, "huh?", then everyone is forgiven and he is embracing his wife and family and .....THE END. What the heck was that? I would have preferred the cute and predictable ending to this any day.

[–] csobero 17 years ago

Well, the ending is true to what happens in the book, so I think they were bound to it. Although the ending in the book isn't at a church, rather, Rob's wife shows up at his hotel and tells Rob about everything and how Michael was really the mortician author. There's never any confrontation between Michael and Rob after Rob finds out. Personally, I like the twist, and the way Rob wants to think Michael was an angel even though the truth is otherwise.

[–] jobster81 17 years ago

I agree! I have not read the book, so I guess that's how it is in the book. But the ending was a let down. I keep re-writing the ending. Somehow it should have ended with that spiritual tone the rest of the movie had.

[–] yossarian100 16 years ago

Yeah, that's what I want in a holiday movie, a story where the end justifies the means. Thats a good family value. I'm a nihilist so I'm ok with a little secular humanism but I would have liked this a whole lot better with a little more Ghost of Christmas Past and a whole lot less of "Secret Agent" Michael and the world's most creative literary agent.

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