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After watching the original ending on the DVD, I had to revise my vote from 8/10 to 10/10 for this movie: I had originally detracted two points because I thought that the ending I saw at the movie theater was completely stupid, absolutely unrelated to the plot elements discussed until then, and definitely tacked on for no apparent reason.

Watching the original ending on the DVD, makes this movie much much much more meaningful and enjoyable (at least for me), unfortunately it seems that the powers-that-be decided that it was too 'intelligent' for the average viewer (in the director's words: requiring the viewer to do one too many leaps of imagination).

I am really happy it was at least included on the DVD, and didn't just end up on the cutting room floor: now if only there was a way to set up the DVD movie to play this ending automatically it would be perfect ;)

I just caught a sneak preview (the movie opens here next week) and I have to agree with most of the posters, it's really great and very close to perfect.

Only very very very very minor nits are that IMHO Anna Paquin was a bit under-utilized, and in a couple of scenes Patrick Fugit (main character) came across a little bit too much as if he was acting rather than being spontaneous.

These are anyways very very minor nits, for me this was a solid 9.5/10 (I wish I could give half scores here on the IMDB), great story, great lines and an amazing (as usual) job by Frances McDormand.