# Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864 "2002-04-16T02:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/901 "2021-07-18T12:55:06Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > I would say its a nice essay. The fact that you can dismiss all that evidence so easily tells me that giving you any more evidence would be a complete waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/902 "2021-07-18T13:00:35Z")
Great! We’ll be here when you dig up a copy of that “original” VHS. Looking forward to it! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/903 "2021-07-18T13:28:25Z")
I would legit bet money no copy can be found as long as an end date is established for the search. And as the guy who started this thread and have followed it for 19+ years: 1. The ending isn’t there. It’s that other similar movie ending linked numerous times on this thread. 2. I get first dibs on any betting. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/904 "2021-07-18T13:44:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > And as the guy who started this thread and have followed it for 19+ years: > > 1. The ending isn’t there. It’s that other similar movie ending linked numerous times on this thread. > 2. I get first dibs on any betting. 😂 1. And when BiggieRemembersSusan finds the tape, Mahaloth gets to be the host of the world-wide reveal at a huge “Alt-Big Fest”. Following a skit on memory by the Radiolab cast, he’ll be introduced by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and both Dopers will become household names overnight. . What? It could maybe kind of possibly happen… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/905 "2021-07-18T14:01:15Z")
We should start a GoFundMe to raise reward money for a video tape of Big with the alternate ending. Nothing flushes out evidence like cold, hard cash. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/906 "2021-07-18T14:24:45Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > We should start a GoFundMe to raise reward money for a video tape of Big with the alternate ending. Perhaps we could use it somehow to fund the SDMB? This could be the big break we’re looking for! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/907 "2021-07-18T14:53:41Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Perhaps we could use it somehow to fund the SDMB? This could be the big break we’re looking for! We could set an end-date and if the tape or any version of the ending does not show up(and it won’t), the cash could go to SDMB. [Here again is the alternate ending people remember as being in Big, but is from another movie.](https://youtu.be/6783tkwbZw0?t=158) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/908 "2021-07-18T15:36:04Z")
If that was to me (and god I hate discourse’s reply function oddities), I don’t think it exists either, if that wasn’t obvious 😁. But hey, if she’s gets the tape, bring it. ---
**Author:** ![BiggieRemembersSusan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@BiggieRemembersSusan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiggieRemembersSusan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/909 "2021-07-18T15:39:26Z")
Yes! What would work best is if there was a reward. If there was a 10.000 dollar reward im sure wed find it in a heartbeat ---
**Author:** ![BiggieRemembersSusan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@BiggieRemembersSusan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiggieRemembersSusan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/910 "2021-07-18T15:41:38Z")
I am on a mission ---
**Author:** ![BiggieRemembersSusan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@BiggieRemembersSusan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiggieRemembersSusan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/911 "2021-07-18T15:46:51Z")
Would you listen to a holocaust denier ? If you witnessed the second world war? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/912 "2021-07-18T15:51:35Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > Would you listen to a holocaust denier ? If you witnessed the second world war Do you have any idea whatsoever how that comes across to the rest of us? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/913 "2021-07-18T16:06:50Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > this 13 to 30 movie The movie which is claimed to cause confusion with the movie _Big_ (shown originally in movie theaters in 1988) is not the 2004 film _13 Going on 30_ (shown originally in movie theaters). It’s the 1988 movie _14 Going on 30_ (shown originally on television). Indeed, _14 Going on 30_ was first shown on television on March 6, 1988, which is 2 months and 28 days before _Big_ was first shown in movie theaters on June 3, 1988. Before you talk about whether or not you were influenced by another film in your memories of _Big_, you should understand which film we’re talking about: > **[13 Going on 30 (2004) ⭐ 6.3 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337563/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > 1h 38m | PG-13 > **[14 Going on 30 (TV Movie 1988) ⭐ 6.3 | Comedy, Family, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094592/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > 1h 34m ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/914 "2021-07-18T16:06:51Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > Would you listen to a holocaust denier ? If you witnessed the second world war? Pro tip: You’re trying too hard. Don’t oversell. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/915 "2021-07-18T16:12:18Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > Would you listen to a holocaust denier ? I would listen to a Holocaust denier (if I had a lot of free time) and would then show them a lot of books and documentary films about the Holocaust and asked them to show me their evidence for their denial. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/916 "2021-07-18T16:14:55Z")
> [@BiggieRemembersSusan](#): > > Would you listen to a holocaust denier ? If you witnessed the second world war? Please don’t escalate this into a weird irrelevant fight. This is just a discussion about whether a movie had an alternate ending. The answer to that question doesn’t even matter very much. Dragging in the Holocaust can’t possibly improve the discussion. In general, Cafe Society is for good natured discussions of food and media. Real fights belong elsewhere, not here. Thanks. Everyone else please drop the Holocaust hijack as well. ---
**Author:** ![BiggieRemembersSusan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@BiggieRemembersSusan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiggieRemembersSusan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/917 "2021-07-18T16:52:26Z")
Okay i figured people would take that the wrong way all sensitive and stuff which is fine but its what came to mind and it wasnt meant to offend, haha or maybe it was an offensive joke on my part jus poking fun here and trying to put it all into a different perspective as in having witnessed something and then people blatantly deny it. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/918 "2021-07-18T16:55:27Z")
Holocaust deniers definitely did not witness the holocaust. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/919 "2021-07-18T16:55:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Really? Did all of the Netherlands rent the same copy of that video tape? Yes. And they were _all_ kind and rewound. It really is a more civilized place. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/920 "2021-07-18T16:57:58Z")
Rather absent minded though, seeing as how they lost all the copies, including the ones the television stations played. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864.md?page=47)