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How does it end (spoilers obviously)


Can someone tell me how it ends. I watched up until the part where we find out that Val is hiding in Gil's bedroom on christmas. then they cow tow to those candles, and then that's as far as i saw... had to leave, don't think i'll actually rewatch the whole thing again... so what happens?

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Val's parents seperate because the mom has an affair with Henry. Val leaves with her father to live in I think Paris. They come back about a year later and the 2 girls are at a makeup table messing with makeup talking about boys ...

THE END

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thank you. i think i'm glad i didn't finish it

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There was another ending shot but not used... Henry Orient was happy at last playing "honky-tonk piano" in a brothel! Barbara Nichols was also in this scene. When editing the picture, the producer and director realized the movie was really about the two teenagers, not Henry Orient, so they cut the scene and ended the picture with the two girls putting on lipstick while looking in the mirror.

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I think it helps the ending to know that one parent says to other this stage of over, thankfully. The other one replies that the next one is worse. Then the camerca shoots up to the two girls putting on lipstick, etc.

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I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie. Personally, I think it's brilliant, but your mileage obviously varies.

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