The nightmare of a failed wire job and a fresh corpse, this time Sally’s, recurs for Terry.īut wait, there’s one more tragic touch and it’s a doozy. But, his dream of playing hero is cut short by the ice pick of a deranged madman played, with creepy credibility, by a young John Lithgow. In a slow, dark descent down to a hell of an ending, Terry uses Sally as bait as he wires her up in an unconscious attempt to redeem himself and erase the memory of that disastrous wiring job that haunts him. The dark genius here is that the story pairs Jack’s attempt to expose a crime with national implications to a lame request from his producer to find a better scream for a doomed cutie in his latest pic, called, “Co-Ed Frenzy.” Now, though, teamed up with a girl, Sally (Nancy Allen), who is linked to the assassination, and with the tape in hand, redemption is so close Jack can almost hear it. Reeling, Jack fled to a job doing sound for a scuzzy producer of blood and boobs spectacles. This goes back to his days wiring undercover cops. ![]() John Travolta stars as a sort of exile who has fled the part of him that gives a crap. Pilfering the hook of Antonioni’s “Blow Up”, Brian De Palma pushed his dynamic hyper-realistic style to its limits in crafting a dazzling, heart pounding thriller about a film sound man, Jack Terry, who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He’s done it before and he’ll do it again. We kick off our list with an ending so heartbreaking that it will make you want to track down the filmmaker and plead him to change it. These 10 movies do all that and then some. ![]() And, then, if you’re lucky, then, the heart will break. Ok, it might not get that bad, but why take the chance?Ĭreating a satisfying ending to a movie that is heartbreaking, as well, is doubly difficult. Get it wrong and the audience will hate you for it. Creating a satisfying ending to a movie is not for the faint of heart.
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