“Director’s Cut” has become such a devalued term since the advent of DVD that I now reflexively cringe pretty much every time I see it, assuming that it’s just a cheap marketing ploy. There are legitimate cases, however, and Little Shop Of Horrors, the 1986 movie adaptation of the 1982 off-Broadway musical adaptation of the 1960 Roger Corman black comedy (got that?), is definitely one of them. For years, the only way to see the film’s original, decidedly unhappy ending was to get a hold of a rare, recalled DVD—or, more recently, watch it on YouTube—and even that meant watching a cruddy black-and-white workprint version that only vaguely approximated the experience of the test audiences who shot it down. So I’m as thrilled as anybody else that the film is being released this week with that ending restored in full color, even though it ...
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