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...these films had stuck to their not-so-happy endings and not gone the crowd-pleasing way?

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Happy Ending releases sometime later this month. And we can safely assume we'll get what's promised in the title. Hollywood, however, gambles and shoots alternate endings to suit their purposes. Here's looking at films that got a pleasant close, but initially weren't intended to end that way....

Pretty Woman
The much-loved romantic flick follows the fairytale of a prostitute who meets and falls in love with a handsome, wealthy businessman who literally rescues her from her former life. Played by the vivacious Julia Roberts and dashing Richard Gere, the film ends with Gere declaring his love for her and stopping her from leaving town. However, the original version of the script called for Julia quietly accepting her payment and returning to a life on the streets. "[It was] a really dark and depressing, horrible, terrible story about two horrible people and my character was this drug addict, a bad-tempered, foulmouthed, ill-humoured, poorly educated hooker who had this weeklong experience with a foulmouthed, ill-tempered, bad-humoured, very wealthy, handsome but horrible man and it was just a grisly, ugly story about these two people," Julia Roberts had said.

Fatal Attraction
The 1987 psychological thriller tells the story of a married man (Michael Douglas) who has a brief affair with a woman (Glenn Close) who becomes obsessed with him and starts to stalk him. Unlike the released ending where there is a scene of struggle between the leading pair and Michael's wife eventually ending with Glenn being shot and Michael reuniting with his wife, script writers had a better plot in mind. They intended Glenn to kill herself making it appear that she was murdered by Michael. Also, his wife would eventually find a revealing tape showing all his indiscretions.

The Break-Up
This Rom-com starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn traces the story of a typical live-in couple who soon start squabbling, eventually leading to a split. But both refuse to move out of their luxurious condo leading to added strife. The film eventually ends with the duo moving out and bumping into each other months later with the possibility of starting something anew. Apparently, in the original script the film was to end with their split but since the release coincided with Jennifer's real life break-up from hubby Brad Pitt producers decided to be kinder to her onscreen.

Salt
Angelina Jolie takes on the role of Evelyn Salt in this thriller, where she plays a CIA agent who's accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try and clear her name. In the released ending, Salt saves the day by preventing the launch of missiles from the White House and eventually killing the President's aide who was trying to create strife. She's eventually allowed to go free. Another version, shows the US president getting killed and reports that the new President is also a sleeper agent and hence a threat to the security of the country. A third version shows Salt on a hunting spree of sleeping agents, who ends up murdering thousands of innocent children!

Orphan
This 2009 horror flick tells the story of a couple who adopt a young Russian girl Esther, played by Isabelle Fuhrman. Eventually, the mother Kate realises that their child is not only manipulative but even psychologically disturbed and she murders her adoptive father. In the end, Esther and her adoptive mother are caught in an icy lake. She begs her mother to help rescue her putting on an innocent face but is eventually left to drown and die. The alternate ending, has Esther safe and sound who puts on a sweet and naive face when the police come to her home.

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