In the original ending of Fatal Attraction (1987), Glenn Close’s character kills herself, and Michael Douglas’s character is arrested for her murder. Test audiences did not like that she escaped punishment. Director Adrian Lyne reshot the ending.
Close said later: “Six months after we finished shooting, I got a call that we had to reshoot the ending.” She fought it for weeks. The new ending became a hit, and the film was one of the highest-grossing films of 1987. Lyne has said the change “was an emotional and dramatic choice, not a financial one.”