The Lost Ending To Election

Complementing our post last week about test-screened alternate scenes, The Daily What finds a recently unearthed example:

[I]t turns out that [director Alexander] Payne’s original ending followed the novel’s conclusion to a T, but the test audience hated it, so a new denouement was shot. The original epilogue remained unseen for years, until a VHS tape with an early work print of the film somehow ended up at a local flea market, and the “lost” footage was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.

Peter Sciretta says of the switch: "[Y]es, rarely, test screening prompted reshoots can result in a much better film."