10 Movies With Different Endings In Different Countries

A film as bizarrely brilliant as Brazil had an equally bizarre history behind the struggle to release it with its original ending intact.

20th Century Fox had already given the green light for the worldwide release of director Terry Gilliam's film in February of 1985. But Brazil was tinkered with by U.S distributors Universal Pictures to make its ending more upbeat for American audiences.

Gilliam discovered another team of editors working secretly on releasing a different version of the film. He confronted Universal about this but didn't get anywhere with them. The dispute went on for months, prompting a frustrated Gilliam to take out an ad in Variety, imploring Universal to release the film.

A version where Sam and Jill inexplicably escape captivity and fly off into the clouds was screened multiple times for test audiences and film schools. But when Brazil won an LA Film Critics Award for Best Film, Universal agreed to work with Gilliam and released a version of the film that kept his ending.

The upbeat ending of the film was never released in cinemas, but still occasionally pops up on some television versions of the film in different parts of the world.