Storylines in mainstream films which are morally wild

[HairdryerMary]

Big Daddy
Overboard
While you were sleeping

Agree with Passengers. There’s a point in the film where Jennifer Lawrence’s character finds out that Chris Pratt’s character woke her deliberately, and she goes storming off to his room carrying a weapon (crowbar?) I thought the film was going in a different direction at that point; that she was going to stalk him round the ship until she got her revenge and that would have been cool. So disappointed that she forgave him 😭

In fairness, he changes everything about himself too...

Blame it on Rio. Absolutely terrible film where Michael Caine gets off with his friend’s teenage daughter.

While I agree changing yourself to
Make a boy like you isn't a good message, it's not quite what happens in Grease - he does like her. A lot. But he isn't able to break out of his 'rut' and acknowledge her. In the end he does at the same moment she also changes. Yes, I get that we think they'll both fall into his rut instead of hers, but even so...

He puts on a cardigan, having achieved some mystifying athletic ‘letters’.

I think it was particularly them spending the night together. I don't think that would happen now, I don't think the scene would have happened even then then if it had been a girl.

He puts on a cardigan, having achieved some mystifying athletic ‘letters’.

I didn't know how he managed that as he seemed hopeless.

I think she went back to her old style after that one day, and ended things with him. A good conclusion 😀

Mrs Doubtfire 😬

Doesn't he leave her back on the street in the original ending? Would definitely be more realistic!

I looked it up. I don't know how popular the film would have been with that ending, but I always found the 'fairy tale' ending more troubling.

"Instead of the Cinderella story that hit theaters in 1990 – becoming an instant classic and cementing Julia Roberts as a Hollywood star - screenwriter J.F. Lawton had conceived the story in the late 1980s as a dark, depressing drama centering on the dangers facing Hollywood sex workers at the time.
Instead of Richard Gere’s character’s swoon-worthy climb from his limousine to "rescue" Vivian from her fire escape, Julia explains that the film ended with her being thrown "out of the car, [he] threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley."
The original ending left viewers with a final shot of Vivian on a bus with best friend and fellow prostitute Kit De Luca headed to Disneyland as she "stares out emptily ahead.""

Not morally wild but a local school did a production of Grease and I wondered how parents of teens then wanting to watch the film would respond to Sandy’s makeover (inc taking up smoking) for the benefit of a man. I am now also thinking about those who were Team SIL on the thread about the SIL who was trying to empower her 3yo old about gender stereotypes. .. 🙈

I do love Grease though and will watch with my DD when she’s old enough.

Just as a counter viewpoint. My friend was an escort who married a punter and ended up with a farm in the country, having his children. It can happen.

American Beauty

That sounds like quite the story!

Cocktail

@Barmecide honest it happened. I think the circumstances are quite unique though, she was in her first few months of doing it, she was an estate agent before. He was a young man, who had just broken up with a long term girlfriend and had temporarily resorted to using an escort as he was too heartbroken to date apparently. So neither was either seasoned escort or habitual punter.

Any of the various Christmas kidnap stories.

It's not a fairytale though is it. Your husband is the sort of person who uses prostitutes - and all that says about him and his views on women. It might be some sort of epiphany and he's never going to use them again, but even then...

Don’t they sometimes make different endings and show them to test audiences and go with the most popular one?

Which he promptly takes off and throws on the floor.

I will die on this hill. It’s a crap ending and I much prefer @annestrawhat proposed plot.

Grease

The Parent Trap (both versions) is based on a book called Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner. He makes the point in the book that children are expected to live through these things, but they are not considered suitable subject matter for children.

His analogy is that Shirley Temple was deemed too young to watch the films she starred in.

Summer of '42
Grease
Dirty Dancing
Maybe Bridget Jones and Love Actually, lots of "fat" jokes and the weird pretend porno scenes, meaning I can't watch with my daughter

Forest gump. I don't think it was right for Jenny to sleep with him.

Many of the James Bond films!

I remember really cringing when Patrick Swayze took over Whoopi Goldberg's body in Ghost.