10 Planned Movie Scenes Actors Refused To Film

10. Daniel & Miranda Get Back Together - Mrs. Doubtfire

Mrs. Doubtfire quite shrewdly avoids serving up a sappy, unrealistic happy ending with former married couple Daniel (Robin Williams) and Miranda (Sally Field) getting back together, instead ending with them still divorced albeit on far more amenable terms.

Yet the original scripted ending indeed saw Daniel and Miranda rekindling their romance, in turn nudging aside Miranda's charming - if pepper-allergic - new boyfriend Stu (Pierce Brosnan).

But given that both Robin Williams and Sally Field had been through divorce themselves and appreciated the effect it had on their own children, they felt it would be disingenuous to end the film on a note that might give false hope to younger viewers with divorced parents.

Ultimately director Chris Columbus agreed, and so this planned ending was scrapped, with a bolder - if more emotionally honest - finale being filmed instead. And like that, the movie's status as an enduring family classic was ironically cemented.