Final Scene: Heartwarming or Sad?
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AntDude — 11 years ago(November 27, 2014 11:59 PM)
Both.
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nooneishere — 11 years ago(November 28, 2014 02:55 AM)
I always personally thought that Del chose not to live anywhere, despite possibly having the funds to. When you've lost a loved one, the last thing you want to do is move on without them. So, my take is that Del just kept bouncing from city to city, choosing to never settle down and start anew.
Disregarding that theory, I always thought Neil would help him find a new place to live, if he was actually homeless and broke.
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motter25420-153-699254 — 11 years ago(November 28, 2014 08:03 AM)
Good Post, I said the same thing above, the guy was flying on planes, had $270 in cash in his wallet (pretty good for 1980's), he just couldn't sit still or he'd go nuts thinking about his loss.
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06986 — 11 years ago(November 29, 2014 12:32 AM)
I watched it again and thought it was a nice ending, not sad. Del was not sad to go to the house and see the family, he was happy he made a friend and got to spend a nice Thanksgiving with a nice family and did not have to spend Thanksgiving at some train station or Denny's lonely and depressed. Steve Martin's character was more thankful for what he had after meeting Del and likely less anti social and shallow. The ending was supposed to show both became better people for meeting each other and going through that experience and likely Del will try to stop living in the past with his deceased wife and will find someone new and settle down. I saw the ending as showing Steve Martin's character was going to take Del in for a little while until Del finds a stable life, likely Martin's character hooks Del up with a good stable job as they are both in sales/marketing and things work out for each other.
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ashfan89 — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 12:19 AM)
I'd say heartwarming for sure, because I think it shows that Del is happy for Neal. Del wants a family too, and I'm sure he'd like to meet someone new that he could love even a little bit as much as Marie. After you lose a loved one, it feels like it's never going to be the same. But eventually you're able to move on and find happiness even while retaining all the good times you once had with the person you loved.
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CoverD — 10 years ago(December 12, 2015 06:49 PM)
Without a doubt. I just watched this on Netflix with my fiance (her first time seeing it, my umpteenth time) and I just bawl like a baby everytime I see the end.
Of course, her reaction was "What the hell is wrong with you?" Maybe its my love of John Candy, and they fact thatno matter how annoying and mooching Del was, he was a very loveable, sad guy.
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jokeco68 — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 05:16 PM)
If I can just interrupt for a moment and say this one of the few good threads I have seen about any movie/show at IMDB. If the replies were all as well thought out, considerate and sincere I might actually stop by IMDB more often. PT&A was such a great movie, another tragedy besides the death of John Candy is the death of John Hughes, who became a recluse, I really wish he were alive too just to see that people still really care about this movie and hold it in high regard.
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anspruchsvoiier — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 04:34 PM)
Both! I always feel like there's a profound sadness as well as happiness in the same scene at the same time, both thanks to Del and the fact that he can't have that family he always strived for, yet participates in Neal's Thanksgiving which can be both a privilege and a curse since it shows him what he doesn't have while also including him in a very social event with at least the new friend he enjoyed so much over the course of the movie.
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bigcat20 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 11:15 AM)
Been watching this movie for years. I'm always sad at the end because its Candy and he would be legendary right now, I'm not really sad because of Del. But I could totally see people thinking oh he must have died shortly after this. He didn't of course, but the way the movie ends and that still shot of him smiling, it just gets me every time. The Uncle Buck ending does the same thing to me which also ends in a still shot of him smiling.
