13 iconic movies with more than one ending

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Clik here to view.Filmmakers usually have a strong vision for the stories they want to tell, but after re-writes, studio notes, and test screenings, the final product probably isn't exactly what they pitched.

With millions of dollars on the line, a bad reaction from test audiences can mean those stories end up being told in very different ways.

Major changes, including a total overhaul to a movie's ending are nothing, but modern viewers  are now privy to what might have been, thanks to all the bonus material released on DVDs within the last 20 years.

Below are 13 movies with more than one ending:

Test audiences absolutely hated the original ending of "My Best Friend's Wedding."

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Filmmakers never planned on letting Julianne (Julia Roberts) end up with her best friend, Michael (Dermot Mulroney), after she tried to sabotage his wedding, but the original script offered the character a slightly happier ending.

Originally, Julianne immediately gets another shot at romance when a new man (John Corbett) approaches her at the wedding, and the film ends with them dancing together. That ending was scrapped after it screened for test audiences, who struggled to empathize with Roberts' character and hated the happy ending.

"They wanted her dead," director P.J. Hogan told Entertainment Weekly. "They just couldn't understand her motives."

The visceral reaction to the ending required a reshoot eight months after filming had wrapped. In order to find a conclusion that would satisfy both audiences and the studio — who were "very nervous" to make a film where Roberts would end up alone — the director expanded on the role of George (Rupert Everett), Julianne's gay best friend. In reshoots, Hogan added scenes between the two that would give the audience more empathy for Roberts' character and made sense to have George surprise her at the wedding in the film's new ending.

There are four possible endings to the "The Butterfly Effect."

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"The Butterfly Effect" starred Ashton Kutcher as a time-traveling college student named Evan, who attempts to change the events of his traumatic childhood and discovers it has unforeseen consequences in the present. In the film's theatrical release, the movie ends with Evan recognizing his love interest Kayleigh (Amy Smart) on the street and making the decision to keep walking.

A far more depressing ending is featured on the extended director's cut DVD, which features Evan traveling back to the moment before his own birth and strangling himself with his own umbilical cord and never being born and subsequently causing pain to his loved ones. Additionally, two other endings were also filmed and included in DVD releases.

According to Movie Web, the film's depressing ending was never tested for audiences, but New Line Cinema allowed directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber to shoot their preferred version to include on DVD.

"Everyone thought the ending was amazing, but they didn't know for a mass release how audiences would fare with that," Gruber said "The differences between the director's cut and the theatrical cut were not the results of test audiences' comments. In fact, the DVD would be the first time the director's cut has ever been screened at all."

Test audiences said they were "confused" by the plot of "Blade Runner."

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Multiple cuts of director Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi movie "Blade Runner" have been released over the years. Each version includes variations on choices and scenes that weren't originally included in the film's U.S. theatrical release. Small changes exist throughout these versions, but the movie has two endings.

According to Vanity Fair, test audiences said they were "confused" by the plot of the film, which prompted Scott to make changes to the film's ending. The film now ended on a happier note and included unused aerial footage filmed by Stanley Kubrick for "The Shining." In this version, Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Rachael (Sean Young) drive off together while Deckard explains in a voice-over that Rachael wouldn't self-destruct in four years like other replicants. The original ending, contained no voice-over and kept things more ambiguous as the movie simply concluded with Deckard and Rachel leaving in an elevator.