Given that the movie was released in 1988, Josh would now be 40 years old and having his own midlife crisis.
BTW, there is a 13 Going on 30 in IMDB, and 14 Going on 30, but there is no “14 Going on 40.”
Does anyone remember the alternate ending to this thread?
Al Traina does.
Yes, but it only exists in New Zealand.
Commonly seen in NZ and yet simultaneously impossible to find!
There is no alternate ending to this thread. You’re thinking of the Stewart Sandwiches thread.
I dreamt about an ending to this thread, but it turns out there isn’t one.
This thread is so resilient, I should make another thread about the same topic.
My husband and I saw it and not just once but several times as we went back to see the movie when it was in theaters. Then one day we were watching it on tv and it was a completely different ending. I saw that other sites said that we were mistaken and it was really 14 going on 30 that had that ending. Well, good explanation but wrong! We never seen 14 going on 30. Why are they covering this up? Give me a break! They said this ending was in Australia and Canada but we lived in the US.
Here’s my reply from the other Alternate Big ending thread:
Strangely enough, both threads have exactly the same ending.
Yes. I’m really Penny Marshall, and there is one ending. 
You saw a completely different ending because you saw a completely different movie.
No. Please make it stop.
I am Tom Hanks and I approve of this message.
I’m still in the “it exists” camp. I remember the people I watched it with and how they explained she had gone to the Zoltar machine too.
There was no blonde, or Alan Thicke or goofy cgi lightning rooms in the version I remember. And she sat in the front of the classroom and looked at him back over her shoulder. Nothing like the “14 going on 30” scene
I’m David Moscow, and I also approve this message.
(I watched it today on TV, so I knew this thread would be bumped.)
That’s because the version you remember is a product of your imagination.
If there was even the tiniest bit of evidence of the alternate ending you might get a better reception. But after all these years with no evidence from a major Hollywood movie, and massive amounts of contrary evidence, this just has no legs.