Wow, I'm glad it wasn't just us but YES the ending felt really tacked on. It's like a focus group said it was too sad - you have to make the movie happy. You are exactly right about when the movie should have ended. I bet if Kubrick survived to see it made it would have been a lot shorter. Maybe I was just so excited to see it that it was just really anti-climactic.
Anyway, Haley Joel Osmont (sp?) is the most amazing young man. You really believed he was a robot with a soul. The least convincing performance was the mother. I never really believed that she loved David - she was just always acting scared of him.
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