I loved this movie all the way through, until the end... I still think the movie was wonderful, but the last scene left me wanting something. I'm not convinced that Day's character would have married him out of love, since the entire time he was pretending to be someone else. But if she married him again just because of the baby, but she hated his guts...that doesn't seem too great.
shareITA...the ending seems tacked-on. The rest of the movie is so well-crafted that I was surprised at the abruptness of the conclusion. The writers probably ran out of time.
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I agree. "Tacked-on" is the best term for it. Still adorable though, I just have to ignore the strangeness of the ending
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I love this movie, but agree that the ending seems tacked on. About her marrying him, don't forget this was the 60s ie you got pregnant, you married the father. End of story. It was very shameful to be a single mother then, also there were no single mother benefits around, you just did the "right thing" by marrying the father, just as she did.
I agree, I didn't care for the ending. It felt rushed. But I didn't doubt she loved him, she was just really really mad. She would have remarried him baby or no baby, that is why she is so upset he moved to CA and didn't write to her after the 8th month.
I think the writers wanted the first marriage to result in a baby, but then they needed them to remarry before the child was born because it was the 60s and this was Doris Day.
However, I personally always wish instead, that Jerry came back to NYC for a meeting, goes to see Carol and finds she is pregnant, and then convinces her to remarry him. However, that probably would have added 15 more minutes to the movie.
Yeah it did feel a bit rushed. The idea of it being a "necessary" marriage rather than a love match is a horrible one, & I don't think that that was the case. Jerry had behaved terribly with the whole masquerade thing, but I don't doubt that he genuinely did love Carol. Celebworship - that is exactly the kind of ending I would've liked, a bit of wooing, adding more romance to the end.
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Yeah I just saw this movie and made comments on another thread where I made some comments on my beefs too. Here is the link.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055100/board/thread/72775688?d=130891778&; amp; amp;p=1#130891778/
But I agree I didnt like that abrupt ending. In my thread above I comment how I didnt even see his love for her until the very end. I didnt see that realization that he loved her in his face. NOw we saw it all along as she was going out with him especially at the beach when he wanted to kiss her. But it seemed like he was just playing her all along.
And I have read so many people comment on the pregancy and getting married that the movie has apparently caused so many peole to misunderstand that when the movie has them already married when she is pregnant. It was not clear to me she got it annulled especially since Ann B. Davis made the comment on the phone. I guess she did for she was very angry at him and rightfully so.
IN Pillow Talk he did the same kind of deception and she got mad but in that one it does show you that they really loved each other. That one had a much much better ending. Weird considering this one was made a few yrs after that one.
Yeah, Carol hated Jerry Webster and it seemed like the only reason she married him was because she didn't want to have her baby out of wedlock, not that she loved him.
shareCan I just ask, after the she goes in to have the baby and the doctor says "talk about cutting it close" or whatever-- is there anything after that? My DVR abruptly stopped!
shareNo, that was the last line of the movie. What comes next is the credits.
shareYou didn't miss anything when your DVR stopped. "Cutting it close" is the last line in the movie and "The End" comes on the screen about two seconds later.
shareI totally agree 100%
Cluvonj took the words right out of my mouth... ABRUPT!
Not sure why they did that since many of the previous scenes throughout the movie were too long.
A surprise marriage, great, but then a quickie annulment, a nine month gap, then another quickie marriage in a hastily constructed elevator?
Clumsy.
They should have ended the movie a year later.
Jerry takes the buy-out money and starts his own firm with Carol as an equal partner.
Their kids (twins, a boy AND a girl) are the new TV spokes models for a new line of the worlds most popular baby fashions featuring absurd hats.
Peter finally musters enough courage (with the help of VIP) to man the helm of his own company while hiring Linus to invent new products for him.
When they have their accounts stolen away by Jerry and Carol’s irresistible offspring they cry “Unethical!”
Mr. Big, that sounds like the Perfect ending. I think that Carol DID love the man, not the Playa!, and she was NOT happy about that.
shareMr Big, that ending is excellent, damn, where were you in '60?
I too was left at half breath when all of a sudden it was "The End"....everything was tied up with a ribbon, in what.... 10 seconds? She found forgiveness so quickly!
He did send her the $15 million in liquor accounts as a way of apologizing, and did write her 240 letters apologizing.
There was clearly some chemistry between the characters during the deception.
I do think the ending was abrupt - almost as if they test screened it with the film ending with Jerry going to California, and the test audiences wanted a "happy ending" with them married - so they quickly shot a few additional scenes and tacked them on.
tHANK YOU JOE DOG. Now I don't have to comment that he set her up with big money ad agency of her own, which should have melted her anger somewhat. I just missed the amount -- it was 25% of how much -- 60 million? I thought maybe it was 60 billion. Very funny movie, very well done even thos formulaic. When it's good it is good.
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